- Medium, one of the most popular publishing platforms on the Earth, sent me an ad today: “Humungus is a new publication about pop culture and masculinity. It’s for men, but not toxically masculine.” Are you kidding? Must every sentence about men be followed by a second sentence defending it?
- Watched midsommar yesterday. Amazing. Also finished season 3 of stranger things.
- Former tesla important brought secrets to china: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20689468/tesla-autopilot-trade-secret-theft-guangzhi-cao-xpeng-xiaopeng-motors-lawsuit-filing.
- Main Python ML suite:
- Scikit-learn, the actual learning. Has SVM, regression (of all kinds), classification, gradients, naive bayes, neural networks, clustering, signal analysis, PCA. No deep learning or reenforcement learning.
- Numpy, for data structures. Arrays, matrices, etc. Low level.
- Pandas, for operations on data. Wraps numpy. Handling of missing data, timeseries, merging data, etc. High level.
- Matplotlib, for visualizing the data.
- Sidenote: Scipy is the ecosystem around these, the umbrella. Numpy, matplotlib, and pandas are part of scipy.
- Still annoying that tmux isn’t starting with my proper bash shell (coloring, aliases like ll, etc).
- Gitpod is an awesome feature of github: https://www.gitpod.io/. It’s an online interpreter, giving you an environment like bash/python/whatever for testing.
- MD/PW. Nothing to write down, but still lots of good reminders and triggers. I skim about 10 articles a day, and find it valuable.
- Sam Harris has the good point that open discourse is fundamental to everything. Our ability to reason is the bedrock of progress. Anything that goes against open discourse is by definition limiting (in the best case), and violently wrong (in the worst case, like radical islam). Dogmatic points of view are the bases of all religion. They’re the bases of dictatorships like Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s communism. Free speech and the pursuit of truth (science, evidence, and rationale) are paramount.
- Chopra and Houston dropped a funny ball on this one lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nupB70anRrQ.