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by adw 8y ago
Millenials are, depending on definition, everyone up to the 1980 cohort. So millenials include mid-to-late-30s.
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by adw 8y ago
A very large part of the answer to "why do people use Python?" is "why did physicists adopt Python en masse in the early 2000s?" and a large part of the answer to _that_ is "f2py exists"...
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It's a pile of massive overgeneralizations, not least of which is that people don't fall neatly into these categories. But it's a useful framework for thinking about miscommunication, I've found.
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by adw 8y ago
A ton of problems in software engineering, I am convinced (and isn't wild generalization one of the marks of our field! I at least want to own my own hypocrisy here) are communication problems. Nearly all the interesting ones, anyway.
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by adw 8y ago
Processing, p5.js, Max/MSP (if you want to do audio/video), CFDG (context-free design grammars). CFDG (contextfreeart.org) has a lot of bang for the buck in terms of effort in to quality of output out.
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by adw 8y ago
People think libraries are about books, but libraries are about librarians, and many librarians are heroes.
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No idea. I'm a doctor of mineralogy, not a doctor of medicine :-)
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Food-grade additives are about avoiding adulterants, etc. I can't imagine people are going to that kind of effort for cheap hygroscopics. Also, and here's what I suspect the real reason is; silica gel sold as a dessicant is hard (
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by adw 8y ago
It won't injure you. Doesn't mean you'll have much fun.
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by adw 8y ago
Yeah, modulo particle size ( https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2018/01/18/EFSA-raises... ) it's inert (used as an anticaking agent, additive number E551), but don't breathe it in; silicosis i
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by adw 8y ago
Not so much DS as Nature. (I know several people who used to be at DS, and they were uniformly all great; DS appeared pretty clearly to be Macmillan-at-the-time's hedge against OA blowing up the conventional journal business, though, f
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by adw 8y ago
Public health outcomes. The model would be something like the UK's NICE. It has many fewer perverse incentives than the current model (which focusses on diseases of wealth). It's not at all clear that it wouldn't be markedly
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by adw 8y ago
[These days I'm entirely industrial, but I used to be an academic working in this space. I am extremely biased.] This is the EU – and their allies at places like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust – negotiating with tanks in p
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by adw 8y ago
You'd be surprised. It's certainly not _all_ of what people use bash for, but there are a lot of sketchy ETL (and sampling, and small-scale analytics) jobs out there held together with bash and awk and hopes and dreams, and replac
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by adw 8y ago
Inline documentation and charting (which for data tasks is a honking huge deal). It's literate programming with an actual use-case. Very into this idea.
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by adw 8y ago
You just described Betfair and Smarkets.
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by adw 8y ago
Member of the House of Lords. It's fairly clear from context: "secretariat for an all-party parliamentary group that focuses on gaming" But any member of the House of Lords has the aristocratic title – probably as a life peer
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by adw 8y ago
Not in the UK; the Tote has always been a minority player. The action was divided between on-course and off-course bookmakers, then the Internet happened, then Betfair happened.
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I wouldn't know without using it. That's where "software using this library" is a really useful bit of social proof. Think of Django; even without looking at the code you have a lot of evidence that it can conveniently s
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by adw 8y ago
I think this is quite a lot better! Nice work.
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by adw 8y ago
That depends on your workload. 0MQ is fine software, but they solve different problems. The problem here is the claims you're making. You've written some utility classes around 0MQ for some applications, which is a real thing, so
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by adw 8y ago
MPI is extremely well-known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface Anyone who has done any scientific or technical computing is highly likely to be familiar with it – it's been around in some f
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by adw 8y ago
"Trust that this provides us with even more motivation to make sure that Startup School is great for all participants." This is a little tone-deaf when replying to people who thought they were participants, I'm afraid.
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by adw 8y ago
> My library lets you do parallelism in a unique way That's a big claim which you don't really back up as much as you need to. Unique is an extremely high bar in this very busy field. There are several other similar red flags o
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by adw 8y ago
If it were really just 100k it would be a huge win to have the AI. That's one developer for three to six months. (I'd handicap the crossover somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude more expensive than that.)
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by adw 8y ago
> They are instead classic examples of market failure. The way to fix market failure is well understood, though; regulation. You're arguing for regulation of the software industry, just as we have regulation of the medical industry
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by adw 8y ago
Waterstones is fairly high up the list of things I miss from the UK high street (along with Pret a Manger).
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by adw 8y ago
Complex numbers are not vectors. Specifically; multiplication and division are defined on the complex numbers but not on vectors (you can multiply/divide a vector by a scalar but that's different).
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If you have a security model and a virtual machine, you already have , haven't you? Browsers are in a meaningful way already operating systems. (This is not an original thought).
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> use that along with other rules that you know to re-infer what the 3D structure is Great answer, thank you :-) Saved me a bunch of typing to explain it less well than you just did. It's worth adding, for this crowd, that another w

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