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Dan Simpson
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I don’t know man, I just don’t know.
Mildly difficult = generics + trait bounds + lifetimes. So everyday rust. And it hallucinated like an absolute fucking champion.
January 17, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by Dan Simpson
For audio, log-signature features complement Fourier-style features (e.g. spectrograms) in the sense that certain characteristics that are noisy or poorly captured by Fourier features are cleanly captured with certain log-signature features. Particularly interesting for audio source separation.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM
There are some languages (see also the bracket-fetishist’s 20-load weekend that is Lisp) that I am convinced are PsyOps.
January 17, 2026 at 4:45 AM
It has an “object of type ‘closure’ is not subsettable”-system
January 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
My day to day language is rust rn and today I am arse deep in trait bounds and types were a mistake.
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Strong choices. Probably the best at the time. But yeah.
January 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Personally, I’m quite fond of polars in python, but I wouldn’t exactly call it easy to use or ergonomic. But if I were writing a pipeline that needed to be fast and stable that’s what I’d use.
January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
It’s not good.
January 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Econometricians don’t know how to program
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Econometricians are applied mathematicians with delusions of grandeur
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Oh every method that is only published in AoS is useless in practice. That is not their purpose.
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Does anyone really care?
January 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I’ve been told that’s how you know it’s good. Great statisticians don’t explain. They lemma.
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
My mildest take.
January 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Indeed. The posterior mass is on signals about as dense as a neutron star. And it’s very easy maths to show it dansblog.netlify.app/posts/2021-1...
Un garçon pas comme les autres (Bayes) - The king must die (repost)
A repost (with edits, revisions, and footnotes) from Andrew’s blog about how much I hate the Bayesian Lasso. Originally published 2nd November, 2017.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM