Mason
12/10/2019, 6:04 AMPezo - Zoltan Peto
12/10/2019, 5:43 PMMariano Guerra
Pezo - Zoltan Peto
12/10/2019, 8:23 PMEddy Parkinson
12/11/2019, 12:45 AMPezo - Zoltan Peto
12/11/2019, 11:31 PMcurious_reader
12/12/2019, 9:10 AMClinton Judy
12/12/2019, 8:55 PMDeklan Webster
12/12/2019, 10:20 PMAdnan Chaumette
12/12/2019, 11:38 PMshalabh
12/13/2019, 6:34 PMKonrad Hinsen
12/15/2019, 4:32 PMelbear
12/17/2019, 3:33 PMMariano Guerra
stevekrouse
Mariano Guerra
Ivan Reese
Ivan Reese
Slack is a terrible place to have conversations that last more than a dayThis resonates with me, and I know a lot of you feel similarly. We've all been in other communities hosted on other platforms, and we constantly feel the comparative weaknesses of Slack. At the same time, moving the community will lose good people, and I'm not sure we can survive that sort of a seismic shift. We could also introduce a second platform as a complement to Slack, but that doubles the effort needed to keep up. And besides, this community has remote colonies on other platforms already — Lobsters, Lambda the Ultimate, Twitter, HN, Lines, XRA's Discord, and countless others. What we have right here is what it is because of Slack. The aggressiveness with which Slack forces us to lose touch with past discussions and miss out on things happening in threads has the Twitter-like consequence of restricting how much time you can spend reading. For some that's a blessing, not a curse. If we moved to a platform with better support for long-form posts and rich threads, that would surely make it easier to read everything everyone writes, but I don't know how many of us could afford to spend that sort of time. All said, I'm very sympathetic to the position of Jonathan (et al.), and want to keep the search for alternatives alive. I like the idea of starting up a shadow community on another platform just to get a feel for it, so please keep posting suggestions for that in #meta. If enough of us are serious about moving, and we manage to agree on a spot, and we try it out and it feels good, I'd be happy to make it an official home of the community. I'm excited that Mariano Guerra is starting a community newsletter — I really hope that takes off, as it'll probably help any eventual change to the platform our community calls home. If you have any similar project you'd like to try out on behalf of the community, I have a stamp of Official Blessing that Steve left on my desk and I'm eager to use it. Of course, if you have concerns about anything that you'd rather not discuss openly, please send me a DM. I don't have any plans to explicitly change anything about how the community functions, but I am very open to new ideas. I love the energy and activity we have here. I love the split between academic research and industry practice. I love that folks are organizing meetups and helping each other find jobs. I love that many of us are working away on our own FoC projects that will take many years to come to fruition, and we'll get to share that difficult process together. Thanks everyone for making this place what it is, and I hope that we can keep it going and growing for years to come.
David Piepgrass
12/20/2019, 9:33 PMvscode.proposed.d.ts
(https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/vscode.proposed.d.ts) and we have also put together some very simple extension samples that demonstrate using custom editors for text and for binary files. (https://github.com/mjbvz/vscode-experimental-webview-editor-extension)
If you are interested in custom editors, please share your feedback on the current proposal and let us know if you would be able to implement it."wtaysom
12/21/2019, 6:25 PMMariano Guerra
Mariano Guerra
Mariano Guerra
Mariano Guerra
It’s important because it’s a way to conceptualize why neural networks are in a way better than classical ML algorithms. Because this lack of leaks means that anyone can play around with them without breaking the whole thing and being thrown one level down. Want to change the shape ? Sure. Want to change the activation function ? Sure. Want to add a state function to certain elements ? Go ahead. Want to add random connections between various elements ? Don’t see why not… etc.
I truly think that they are among the first of a "new" type of mathematical abstractions. They allow people that don't have the dozen+ years background of learning applied mathematics, to do applied mathematics.
shalabh
12/26/2019, 7:41 PMWhen you see a working application, can you tell how the code is written and organized?What do you think?
Paul Butler
12/27/2019, 3:41 PMMariano Guerra
Zubairq
12/28/2019, 6:31 AMPezo - Zoltan Peto
12/29/2019, 3:18 AMideal
tools would you like to have in every project you work on?
My list:
• Graph db - I’m fed up with Relational dbs and Mongo like key value stores. (OpenCypher as query language would be really nice 😄 ) - offline-first support
• Same language both for server and client (like typescript)
• Static typing (I’d prefer Dependent Types like Idris, but the ecosystem is just not that mature)
• Actor model, visualisation: like XState
• Over The Air update support (for mobile apps)
• Visual (Snapshot) Testing (like percy.io)
• support for Property based testing & random testsZubairq
12/29/2019, 5:38 AM