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by 3JPLW 9y ago
There are lots of exciting new parts to Julia 0.6. I believe the linked NEWS.md is still in the process of being compiled and refined throughout the release-canditate cycles. Some of my favorite parts: * Actually being able to safely rede
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by 3JPLW 9y ago
That's precisely _why_ the list of breaking changes is long.
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by 3JPLW 9y ago
More likely shoddy unicode handling. I'd wager that the author intended for an emdash at that point (—). ... I was close. It's an en-dash. It's a triple of bytes, in decimal representation: julia> b = UInt8[226, 1
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by 3JPLW 9y ago
That is something completely different. Where Fortran allows negative indexing is when you initialize your array such the the indices are offset in the same manner as described in the linked article.
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by 3JPLW 9y ago
Surely one acquisition and 9 years later this isn't still an open vulnerability… right? It'd be nice if the author discussed that.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
The replacement seat they were offering was a full day later. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/travel/questions-united-trnd/
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
That particular example happens to work, but 1/7 + 1/7 != 2/7. DecFP is not magic. You still need to know that you're dealing with limited precision numbers under the hood.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
I'm only a casual observer of the court, so corrections here are very welcome. As I've seen, many rulings tend to cluster around the end of the session (June). Decisions from this term can be published at any point between now an
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
It's hard to ignore the timing. Why release this unanimous decision against a Gorsuch ruling now?
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
How in the world is "—me Maker Language" in the top 30 by SO rank? I assume Game Maker Language? But http://stackoverflow.com/tags/gml/info only has 190 tags...
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Would it be possible to exploit the found bit-pattern in a "false positive" (that wasn't intentionally constructed to collide) to construct a second object with that preimage? Is a preimage attack in that situation more feas
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Amusingly, I find point #4 (which you skipped) completely reprehensible and unambiguously the worst offender. All these sorts of arrangements are done within a legal context. If they satisfied the legal requirements, then the other points l
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Note that there's a big difference between de-identifying and fully anonymizing data. In general, it's extremely hard to fully anonymize a dataset. De-identification gets you most of the way there, but its frequently possible fo
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Indeed. The paper itself details seven "transgressions:" > 1) We do not know––and have no power to find out––what Google and DeepMind are really doing with NHS patient data, nor the extent of Royal Free’s meaningful control ove
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
That's precisely what NACo — the National Association of (US) Counties — does. They have initiatives on both data driven justice[1] and housing[2]. 1. http://www.naco.org/resources/programs-and-services/data-d
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
You're right, using a doubly-recursive algorithm [1] for `fib` is a terribly naive and uncharacteristic way to write it in any language, including Julia. But it's a wonderful proxy for the cost of a function call. It's also
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
I think RJulia goes the other way; calling Julia from R. You want RCall.jl and PyCall.jl. Both allow you to directly work with and manipulate native objects. RCall even allows you to bring up an R REPL.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
When was the last time you used it? Module loading times improved significantly with precompilation in 0.4.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Definitely superconductors; that's the only viable way to generate a field that strong. Design the spacecraft properly and you may not need an active cooling system. The James Webb Space Telescope aims to keep the shaded side below 50
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Uber hired an entire experienced department from CMU.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
I use tmux constantly but I barely know three tmux commands. Get all the benefit with none of the cognitive overhead with `tmux -CC` in a supported terminal (like iTerm). It allows the GUI program to take charge of the windowing and panelin
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Ah, yes, thank you. I appreciate the correction.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Again, semantics. It's being called a Muslim ban because it _only_ affects Muslims. Sure, it doesn't affect _all_ Muslims, but it still singles out one religious group.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
It's a Muslim ban when it affects majority-Muslim countries and has a minority exemption. That's pretty clear to me.
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Not really. They're just written in a way such that the memory layout is compatible with BLAS libraries — which are frequently written in Fortran. So they can be passed directly to functions that happen to have been written in Fortra
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
There's a start for this in Julia[0], where custom string literals mean that you can actually write APL in native Julia: julia> apl"ι5" 1:5 julia> apl"+/ι5" 15 You can even just get
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Redraw the States: How arbitrary is the electoral college?(kevinhayeswilson.com)
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
Anyone who gives themselves a combined C/C++ rating has't spent enough time with either language. :)
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
If you're really curious, you can follow some of the breadcrumbs through the "Activate LLVM 3.7" GitHub issue (which was originally started for version 3.5). https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues
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by 3JPLW 10y ago
That would be incredible, but if he spends 4600 words explaining those 171 words, I can't imagine the time investment involved in the GPLv2 (2910), GPLv3 (5644), or MPLv2 (2346).

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