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xiaodai··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
should this article be renamed "How to count your chickens before the eggs even hatch?"
xiaodai··on A Theory of Deep Learning
What a beautifully written article. It's extremely that I favourite an article but this is one.
xiaodai··on Learning Lean: Part 1
i am a mathematician wanna-be. I have an undergrad honours degree in maths. As a retirement or pre-retirement project, I want to learn LEAN and contribute to it either via development or via developing the Mathlib or both!

Pointers welcome. As long as they are not null. Btw, I am also interested in compilers.

xiaodai··on Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
we have a tendency to look thousands of years in the past for wisdom. weird.
xiaodai··on JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.
Python's default is gallop sort however radixsort is much faster and performs in O(n).
xiaodai··on Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
R has that too.
xiaodai··on Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
Totally RAD!
xiaodai··on Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
the julia solution was bad
xiaodai··on Why I Chose Common Lisp
Cos shipping things is not a concern
xiaodai··on Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
They should hire English teachers to fix their grammar. “Will hire no more engineers.” Wtf
xiaodai··on Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
Scammy. I can’t even preview one
xiaodai··on Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
can't bring myself to trust anything about privacy from a software with a weird-ass Chinese name.
xiaodai··on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
Also as a great symbolism of our times: An Indian beat a Chinese. India is rising while China is already in decline.
xiaodai··on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
get outta here!
xiaodai··on Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language
interesting idea to say the least.
xiaodai··on When Abstractions Break
Leaky abstractions.
xiaodai··on DuckDB over Pandas/Polars
lack of UDF is an issue
xiaodai··on What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?
the Frequentists?
xiaodai··on 1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community
Shane that the Julia crowd have given up on this
xiaodai··on SSH Remoting
make windows here before doing ssh?
xiaodai··on Survival Analysis Part I: Basic concepts and first analyses (2003)
why?
xiaodai··on Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages
This post doesn’t make any sense. If a rewrite in another lang being faster is just due to rewrite then surely someone would attempt rewrite in JavaScript and come out just as fast. So far there hasn’t been any case of such happening
xiaodai··on Understanding how bureaucracy develops
The bit about cia is too funyy
xiaodai··on TabNet vs. Xgboost on tabular dataset in classification and regression tasks
this post is so fucking stupid to the point of being embarrassing. wtf was the author doing? Tune both and see how much better they are vs each other? But they just fucking change some parameters without hyperparameter-tuning training and show TabNet was better.
xiaodai··on Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers
XGBoost LightGBM Catboost and JLBoost?
xiaodai··on Grandmaster-level chess without search
this paper is so dumb. so you modeled the output of stockfish? stockfish does use simulation or selfplay or search. so you've outsourced search and dont do it yourself so you can claim to be "without search"
xiaodai··on Show HN: Vortex – a high-performance columnar file format
Question: if vortex can "canonicalized" arrow vectors, why doesn't Arrow incorporate this feature?
xiaodai··on Show HN: Vortex – a high-performance columnar file format
Cool looking forward to it.
xiaodai··on Statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown
Same. I think it does disservice to math.
xiaodai··on Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI
Lol. I am Malaysian Chinese but I honestly don't think anyone will put into production a Chinese made kernel. The risk is too high, same as no one will use a Linux distro coming out of Russian, Iran or NK. It's just cultural bias in the west.
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