As a data scientist, I find applied Bayesian methods to be incredibly straightforward for most of the common problems we see like A/B testing and online measuring of parameters. I dislike that people usually first introduce Bayesian methods theoretically, which can be a lot for beginners to wrap their head around. Why not just start from the blissful elegance of updating your parameter's prior distribution with your observed data to magically get your parameter's estimate?

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My heart is lightened to learn inserting the chopsticks into your mouth to make walrus fangs is not taboo.

Don’t go to Chinese food with a drummer. It’s just maddening.

It actually is tradition

I'm betting Kuwaebashi covers that.

It actually prohibits holding the chopsticks in your mouth. You have a chopstick rest (and workarounds) for that.

Just like the next term on the list does not prohibit eating food on the bottom but rather digging into the bowl instead of eating in top down order.

FWIW, the iPad Air I bought a couple years ago has a small protrusion for the single camera lens, but does not wobble when laying flat and is not really noticeable. This latest iPad Air has a similar design.

I make it on the stove top. It also takes 30 minutes to cook and 10 to cool. My ratio of water to dry oatmeal is 3 to 1 by weight in grams and I mix in honey after it's done.

I microwave mine for 5 minutes (50% power) with a diced apple and some cinnamon. Ez Pz

I'm still looking for a good source of organic steel-cut oats, so I'm doing "regular" in an Instant Pot.

Life hack: put the measured water and oats inside a bowl, but put the bowl inside the Pot with half an inch of water. You're going to dirty the bowl anyway; no sense dirtying the Pot too. Just use gloves or a potholder to remove the bowl, unless you have very tough fingers.

Zero chance of the microwave under-cooking the oats or, worse, over-cooking and making a gawdawful mess in there.

I use either Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats which are cheaper and organic or McCann's steel cut oats. I don't know if I could tell the difference in a blind taste test but I think McCann's are creamier and nuttier in flavor.

> no sense dirtying the Pot too

I cook all meals at home so I run the dishwasher machine every night and put it in. I might try the bowl trick with single serving of rice.

Interesting that oats suffer the same economics as yellow bulbs in stop lights where they are used much less meaning it costs more to switch them to led than the electricity costs saved. Genetically modified (GMO) oats are not commercially available because the cost of developing them doesn't meet the low demand.

I also sometimes fry and egg and put it on top the oatmeal with maple syrup. I know it sounds gross but I like it.

> I use either Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats which are cheaper and organic or McCann's steel cut oats.

Oh, those aren't at all as overpriced as I was expecting. Thanks for the recommendation.

> I might try the bowl trick with single serving of rice.

Just about anything I have ever cooked in an IP at the single to double serving size I have been able to do using that trick. (Rice, pasta, even "baking" personal sized cakes.) I've lived for years at a time in homes with no dishwasher so optimizing for not relying on one has been worth the effort for me.

Rice is a no-brainer. If you don't end up preferring it I'll be shocked. :-)

> Genetically modified (GMO) oats are not commercially available because the cost of developing them doesn't meet the low demand.

Wow. I had no idea. Thank you part 2. This is very good news. Anything I can do to get the glyphosate out of my diet is most welcome.

> I also sometimes fry and egg and put it on top the oatmeal with maple syrup. I know it sounds gross but I like it.

It sounds like a breakfast of pancakes and fried eggs and I've run out of cinnamon sugar and that maple syrup is right there looking at me.

Oh, did I mention that you can make one big pancake in your IP in the same bowl, and if you have "regular" oatmeal (not the instant kind, nor the un-cooked steel cut kind either) on hand you can substitute half of the flour and have a big ol' breakfast in 40-50 minutes? The only thing besides the bowl and spoon I need to clean is the 1/4c measuring cup, now that I can easily estimate the amount of salt I need to shake in, etc.

Working with the government is typically a huge pain in the ass unless you have a lot of friends on the inside. It's not hard to do the math when you you dealing with a government whose acting incredibly oppositional.

I sold my first edition almost 10 years ago to fund (partially) my unemployment during a career transition to data science. A couple years, ago my brother bought me a nice reissue for Christmas without ever knowing I once owned a copy. Odd how some things will make their way to you in the world.

Seeing half of an AR LLM's output tokens go to generating a predefined json schema bothers me so much. I would love to have an option to use diffusion for infilling.

One trick I learned for this was to use csv for LLM I/I and translate json <-> csv at the boundary layer

Oh neat. So have the llm output csv instead of JSON and then convert it? How would handle nested structures?

Depending on how it's nested, you could denormalize, think of how you could denormalize a one-to-many SQL relationship

So if you have a user that has many automobiles, maybe instead of Autos: [...] you could do Auto1Make Auto2Make etc.

Google is a cloud provider so API usage is funneled thru GCP. It's the same for Microsoft and Amazon.

By that logic, G Suite should be funneled through GCP.

Also, are you sure you meant to mention Microsoft? Microsoft has this Copilot thing that they will gladly sell you, with generally inoffensive commercial terms, through more channels than you can shake a stick at. Got a $4 GitHub for Teams subscription? Add $20 or so and you will be swimming in Copilot outputs, and all you have to do is check the checkbox.

Got a free Gmail account? Add $20 or so and you'll be swimming in Gemini outputs. Yet both companies also have a cumbersome onboarding process if all you want to do is get an API token. So yeah, quite similar!

Yeah, if the goal of the article was to convince Windows users to switch to Linux then Ubuntu would provide as frictionless an install as Windows. Since the author chooses CachyOS, of course there's going to be some important steps during installation that need to be handled with some forethought and extra software to handle all hardware issues. After all, CachyOS is based on Arch Linux and inherits it's minimal mindset. But the article about switching from Windows to Ubuntu has been already written a thousand times.