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axchizhov

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axchizhov··on The illusion of being stuck
Learned helplessness was disproved, by the way. If I remember correctly, there is even a recent paper from the original authors confirming this.

Helplessness isn't learned, it's a result of not knowing how to deal with the situation. So, try new things, search for the solutions and don't give up — that's the recipe.

axchizhov··on Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
Well, duh. Seaborn is a plotting lib for research — you will probably make a couple of hundred calls to it in a week. In a week. After that, you will save your figures for the report and forget about your code. It's plainly obvious that you don't use it in a high load production scenario.

I just don't see how a person could spend 20 years using python and still can't figure out that you shouldn't hammer nails with a microscope.

axchizhov··on Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
So, instead of printing a pretty plot in 2 lines of code, you will be... making these 20k syscalls yourself?

You have such unusual hobby, my friend!

axchizhov··on Markov Chains are the Original Language Models
Yeah, and Markov chains aren't much smarter than... matrix multiplication. A lot of stuff have been built with it, but these pesky c++ libs like lapack — such a bother to use! Imagine a world where a good infrastructure have been built around it — matrix multiplication certainly would be a blast!