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by andyferris 6y ago
The problem is with the response. The way I see it, it’s a moral spectrum. You can trade the diseased blankets, be nonchalant about a spreading disease, or spend some effort reducing infection. The US is taking the middle path and its resu
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by andyferris 6y ago
Indeed - I have also wondered what a “struct processor” rather than “list processor” would look like. I keep thinking code blocks and the struct/map definition could possibly both use `{ ... }`, which might appear a bit like some other
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by andyferris 7y ago
This video is really cool. I’ve been following dataflow approaches for a while, including some of Frank McSherry’s (usually enjoyable) articles. None of the comments mention https://materialize.io so I may as well (an open sourc
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by andyferris 8y ago
Something has to be both valuable (useful) and rare in order for people to pay for it. Useful by itself is not sufficient. A piece of open-source software can't be considered scarce if you are allowed to make a copy for microcents. Onl
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by andyferris 8y ago
Hi Nilan - thanks for your words. It’s true, that as someone who is ultimately employed as a researcher in some role, I do wonder (a) when research is valuable and (b) whether the people controlling the decisions of when/how much resea
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by andyferris 8y ago
No, but seems like an interesting read. Thanks.
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by andyferris 8y ago
A agree, that's totally true. That "exercise" was just my thought experiment about what might be for "the greater good" (whatever that might mean, precisely).
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The financial cost of not knowing things(medium.com)
101 points by andyferris 8y ago|30 comments
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by andyferris 9y ago
Just thought I'd chime in that there is a StaticArrays.jl package that lets you make arrays which are stack allocated like value types in other languages, and you can make arrays of static arrays that layout exactly like arrays of stru
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by andyferris 9y ago
The most commonly used functions/methods are the non-mutating versions, that newcomers to Julia do learn about first. (The exception being assigning values to vectors and dictionaries using `setindex!`, as in `vector[i] = x` or `dict[k
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by andyferris 9y ago
Yes, do it! It was an easy transition years ago, now Julia seems light-years ahead.