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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Absolutely agreed: to me, Python is a local maximum rather early on the readability vs. complexity graph. I think as complexity increases, an explicitly-typed language becomes much more understandable because local type annotations require
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I don't have any basis to evaluate this because I went to a high school with 30 kids and AP was not even in my vocabulary. I am curious about the contrast between these statements: >AP courses are not, in fact, remotely equivalent to th
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Do y'all have a performance roadmap (or issue tracker tag?) that lists some optimizations that you foresee as julia matures? If not, I hope you and/or Jeff will do a blog post on this at some point! One key point of interest would be the sp
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Matlab, R, and Julia: Languages for data analysis(strata.oreilly.com)
123 points by bugsbunnyak 14y ago|80 comments
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Any idea what they are using to package the Python into the exe? I've tried py2exe and all of the similar packagers that I could find, and every one of them requires brittle incantations to get everything packaged (I'm using a lot of graphi
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Am I reading this correctly? they are using comtypes as an exploratory tool, but the photo upload feature was written in something else... (I haven't disassembled the dropbox dlls, but there aren't any obvious python signatures in the insta
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How can I submit prior art to the Patent Office?(meta.patents.stackexchange.com)
131 points by bugsbunnyak 14y ago|13 comments
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I just noticed this answer, which gives an overview of how to officially provide prior art for a pending patent application: http://meta.patents.stackexchange.com/questions/105/i-want-t... This is really neat!
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
The promotion by the director is a great sign, and I can see AskPatents being very useful for prior-art searches (one of the results of which is the NPL document referenced above). It will hopefully improve results and save money. Absent so
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
The patent is valid as of the issue date. A re-examination request can be filed at any time during the life of the patent. I haven't yet heard what, if any, formal relationship AskPatents.com will have to the examination process going forwa
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
For what it's worth, this doesn't happen in a vacuum. If you want to read the arguments, enter the patent number 8276057 at this website: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair Look under the heading "file wrapper" for all the commu
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
This blog post is well-written and value-added, but here is the journal article for reference: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.full...
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Cython, not CPython. I took it as a given that it will run "pure" CPython-compatible code. I meant that the ability to JIT down Cython code (without the C translation step) would be a strong hook to get some people interested. There have be
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
From the FAQ: The initial compiler will compile into C or use LLVM for the back end This is .. a rather fundamental point. More critically, there is no link that I could see to any code. It is an interesting idea, but it seems a little to
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Nonetheless, I don't think there is anything inherently so wrong about the US college/university system. People outside of the US wouldn't be spending buckets' loads of money to send their kids here. And lately, Canada seems to be absorbin
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
One way to deal with an overzealous mod: Such a great answer proves that the question was worth asking. – Olivier 2 days ago @Olivier: while I agree with your comment regarding the answer, I woould like to add that your inference regarding
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Another one: http://www.mevislab.de/home/about-mevislab/ I think one of the advantages of a visual paradigm (at least for MevisLab) is that it forces modularity of all components. To avoid the wire-frame spaghetti, functionality can be en
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
In fact, this group has already done very detailed validation in cat brains: in-vivo MR imaging followed by ex-vivo staining+microscopy for validation : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789885/
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
They addressed these concerns in several ways - firstly, yes there is microscopy on corresponding sections demonstrating that fiber-crossings were resolved correctly. Second, DSI imaging was performed on mouse hearts, as myocardium exhibits
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Original article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6076/1628.abstract [paywall]
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
> Chomsky's approach, on the other hand, will result in a 'true' artificial intelligence, the way neurologists understand it. It's just going to take a lot longer to get there. High-level behavioral impressions taken by a neurologist ar
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Padmapper ought to do a better job of leveraging this publicity. Apartment season is in full swing in college towns across the country and they need to push really hard to get the word out about Padlister: in particular, the fact that it wi
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
This has strong whiffs of grudge-grinding and ass-covering. My take is that the IRB was miffed at the end-run using an ethics committee instead of the IRB. However, this is neither unprecedented nor illegal. Ethics committees are widely use
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Atomic-level would be overkill for a lot of cellular processes. It's certainly crucial for protein interactions (for example), but affinity/dissociation constants are well-characterized so modelling individual binding site interaction isn't
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
The source code is available. https://simtk.org/project/xml/downloads.xml?group_id=714#pac... I went to a talk by Dr. Covert a few months ago and it was fascinating, all the moreso as a chalk-talk with an animation flip-book handout. As a
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
> The only cancer research that goes on is the kind designed > to stop cancer. That's ludicrous. If solutions were obvious then we would only need engineering. The problem is most of the time "you can't get there from here" - there
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Some background on what this could be used for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
That might have been intended as irony. On the other hand: this is probably the first time the "word" 'beeyotch' has appeared in any forum associated with Science magazine.
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I think it's hard to overstate how important this is. Consider the number of bolt-in solutions there are to get decent performance in python: numexpr, weave, pysco (dead), the emerging island of NumPyPy, theano, the brilliant/crazy chimera
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
How the hell does this have anything to do with the Rwandan genocide (linked in second paragraph)? I agree that this confluence of apps/search/sharing is potentially dangerous, but that kind of hyperbole doesn't help -- especially when it i

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