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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Kinda like AI is now? I use Graph Theory a lot in my every day job (nothing fancy, but it is useful for visualization, shortest path, and other things). You start to see it show up everywhere too.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Ah, yea if you're ok with that then great. I like it myself. A lot of folks are dismayed by that though. I find that the language itself has the ease of Python with the performance of a language with static (or is it strong?) types, JI
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Julia's main focus is on scientific computing. Basically think of it as a Matlab or Python + Numpy or even a C++ replacement for numeric computing. A lot of the libraries are focused on optimization, differential equations, statistics,
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Do they not understand customers at all? Except for high performance simulations, I will never use the cloud. Maybe they realize that and want to force cloud adoption?
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I used to have Nokia Windows Phones and they were excellent...I wonder if this was still going on back then?
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Yea. In my industry you could hire a team of generalists and I wouldn't expect any of their conclusions to be valid. Now if a domain expert can get them a valid dataset...then they can do some statistics and analysis and maybe uncover
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
That's awful. I probably have hundreds of pages of notes in this thing. Time to mass PDF export.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Gotcha. Thanks for the additional thoughts!
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Thanks for the tip. OneNote is one of a handful of things Microsoft has done that I like. Is it really not on Windows10? I haven't upgraded from 7 yet.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Agreed. Either lecture or tell me to read a chapter. I can't multi-task that well with learning something that detailed.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Ever try the phones from Google with pretty much nothing pre-installed? It is a much better experience, but yes Android is still proper shit in some ways. In others it has come so far. I never have to restart my phone like I had to for my G
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
History <> Math at all. I'm an electrical engineer (pretty good at math as that's all you do for 4 years in college), but can process a history lecture much much faster and easier. Outlines are great for History (I agree), b
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I would disagree with you on the benefits of taking notes in higher maths. If I'm taking notes, I can barely follow what is going on in the lecture. If I don't take notes I can fully concentrate on the lecture and logic, but then
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Agreed. Paper and pen is hard to beat when it comes to equations and improvising. Hats off to anyone with that level of Vim & LaTex skill though. Now that I'm in the workforce I use OneNote, Notepad, and Confluence for notes and do
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
There's obviously nothing inherantly wrong with that and it's great that you can run it anywhere. However, isn't it a shame you have to resort to that? Shouldn't there be a way to easily specify to the computer what you
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
You can certainly create GUI apps on Linux, but I've never found the need or desire as the terminal works so well. Even with a GUI designer, it adds a bunch of code you wouldn't likely need if you had a decent environment. Of cour
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Quite a bit in my opinion. Of course if both are Turing complete the answer is nothing, but efficiency in development time and speed should be a factor. To give an example, suppose you have a directory with 20 .CSV files that are all 200 MB
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Yes and No. I think they understand the very real limitations of Windows and how developers and power users hate it. Let's compare and contrast the two. Linux has a usable shell that has GCC, Bash, Awk, dozens of specific commands that
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I was wondering the same thing
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Didn't know that. Thanks! Does Shakti not have the same problem with Python? Or is Python only mostly for visualization once you get back your dataset?
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I know what you're getting at, but how hard can it be for a software company that makes millions (my assumption) to add a charting library as a native option with a verb for linechart, scatterplot, barplot...etc? They could just bundle
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
This comes up a lot in these discussions and I believe Arthur better understands 6 pages of code written like that than someone else can comprehend 30 pages of the equivalent idiomatic code. He writes APL/K for a living, so making the
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I see a lot of niche languages like Dyalog APL doing the same thing (building bridges to Python), but if I really have to use Python, I'll just use Python. Not a hybrid of the two. Maybe that's just me though.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Thanks for pointing that out!
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Haha. Same here for Red. I understand why they did it (it seems like they wanted blockchain and crypto currency to be their killer app), but I'm worried it was just a costly detour. That is their decision of course though and best of l
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
J and K are different languages. They are similar in that both use standard ascii keys and are in the APL family of languages. The author of K "Arthur Whitney" wrote part of a prototype with Roger Hui for the J interpreter or so I
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Not really sure... people started talking about it on the mostly dead /r/apljk subreddit last week which caught my attention. It appears Arthur Whitney left Kx Systems and started his own company again. I'm immediately suspic
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Thanks for the helpful replies. I didn't know that.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I stated something similar in an older post. Essentially we all know who he is and have a lot of respect for his amazing accomplishments. He even has some lectures that are awesome. One that I've watched a few times goes over the massi
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I'm not a full-time Perl Dev like you, but do whip up something a few times a year and it is there when I need it. I'm therefore incapable of properly replying to your thoughts although it makes sense to me (Perl is so flexible th

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