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by cdavid 13y ago
Can you expand a bit on how that works in principle ? Can you make it work with a standard python or did you need to insert probes' into the python interpreter to catch when it goes form C to Python and vice et versa
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by cdavid 13y ago
Not really, no, at least not without some context. Lots of people use python and numpy on very large computers. Also, running time is not the interesting metric: dev + runtime is. The tradeoffs depend on your team, the problem, etc...
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by cdavid 13y ago
Note also that a common bottleneck for array processing is memory bandwidth. Multithreading something that is memory bound will not get you much speed. There are tons of optimisation, new representations that can be experimented with for ar
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by cdavid 13y ago
Emigrating to Japan is actually incredibly easy if you have a job: getting a work visa takes less than 2 months and costs almost nothing.
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by cdavid 13y ago
Many don't, and basic debit accounts don't offer 'standard' cards (VISA, etc...). Japan also has a culture of using cash everywhere (I have seen people handling the equivalent of 1000s $ in cash numerous times), and it will be interesting t
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by cdavid 13y ago
I guess it depends on the reference, but I was shocked how expensive Cambridge was. Having a decent 2-3 bedrooms house at walking distance of the 'center' can easily reach 1500 pounds a month. I myself have a flat which while near the cente
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by cdavid 13y ago
Cambridge is very expensive as well. While it is not as expensive as London, I don't think it makes much difference, unless you want to hire people with families (Cambridge is much more affordable if you want a garden, things like that). Fo
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by cdavid 13y ago
Debunked quite convincingly there: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/01/the-systemi... . (don't stop at the ad-hominem attack on Friedman, though those are fair game, given how much of an hack Friedman is).
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by cdavid 13y ago
With the small detail that you earn <= 136.78 pounds per week during this leave: https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/pay . For women, it is the same after 6 weeks I believe. Paternity/Maternity leaves in UK are truely horrible compa
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by cdavid 13y ago
it looks like kcachegrind or pycallgraph ( https://github.com/gak/pycallgraph ).
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by cdavid 13y ago
Software is way too general. Developing games, misson critical softwares or in a body shop doing crappy consulting gigs at a bank are very different jobs. When you make a game for a console, mistakes are very costly: it makes a lot of sense
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by cdavid 14y ago
strictly speaking, it is not required: you can build a giant python binary with all the extensions you need, though it can be quite a bit of work to do so. Granted, the vast majority of users use the loadable module approach.
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by cdavid 14y ago
I would be surprised if the joke did not work as well in e.g. France. The only thing specific to the US compared to Europe is the influence of hard core christian on things like evolution. But for every other usual pseudo science crakery li
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by cdavid 14y ago
Indeed, that's what I meant, even though my phrasing was unclear. Thanks for clarifying.
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by cdavid 14y ago
I think LuaJIT is the outlier, not python. All other implementations got lots of resources to make them fast, except for LuaJIT.
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by cdavid 14y ago
A snarky description would be travis-ci is to jenkins what github is to sourceforge. Travis-ci definitely has limitations (no windows support, limitation to 15 mins for build time, very difficult to have it installed on a local network), bu
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by cdavid 14y ago
yes you are. NumPy is much more than a wrapper around C libraries - if it were just that, it would exist in most languages, and yet few general programming languages have something like numpy. The whole point is that it gives you abstractio
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by cdavid 14y ago
Lots of people do just that, e.g. http://www.training.prace-ri.eu/uploads/tx_pracetmo/pythonHP... Maybe you should change buddies
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by cdavid 14y ago
The scientific community is not that interested in merging into the stdlib. Also, the main point of this is to allow for different async libs to find some common ground to stop the madness of having twisted-specific, tornado-specific, etc..
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by cdavid 14y ago
You are assuming that you know both the algorithmic and the business rules when you start the project. That's rarely if ever true. People in charge of setting those business rules also rarely know what they actually want in details. This is
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by cdavid 14y ago
Waste in terms of inflated costs is more likely a function of size more than public/private dimension. 20k $ is literally not worth lowering down to get the money in some industries I have witnessed. I have yet seen obvious examples of corr
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by cdavid 14y ago
The cost of cancer/dialysis/diabete is quite relevant since those things are inherently expensive today, and you won't be able to pay it from your pocket unless you are in the top few % income wise. Regarding the 7 % costing 90 %, it does n
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by cdavid 14y ago
My point was that autotools had the excuse of being written in the early 90ies, cmake doesn't. Your experience with debugging autotools vs cmake does not match mine: cmake is not an improvement over autotools (if only because at least with
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by cdavid 14y ago
There is an easy way to refute your argument: what you're saying about 'socialization' also happened in most developed countries. At least in France, so-called 'social security' (which is about mandatory health insurance, and not pension as
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by cdavid 14y ago
Using a macro language was already bad in the 90ies (autoconf/automake using m4), but using one in 2000 is just tragic. It is also impossible to debug, partly because of the abomination the cmake language is: even understanding where a vari
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by cdavid 14y ago
200 $ / month is indeed nothing. The problem is when you need more. Arguably, github enterprise follows exactly the model of price per collaborator.
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by cdavid 14y ago
Almost none of the European city has a flat/grid structure as typical of more 'recent' American cities, yet they most have a much better public transit story, so I doubt that's a factor by itself. More likely, that's correlated with somethi
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by cdavid 14y ago
While there are many reasons to be careful when reading Chomsky, his description of the rationales/causes of 'war of terror' are quite consensual. They are actually boringly consensual, and it says quite a lot that they are not considered a
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by cdavid 14y ago
The scientific pedigree of Chomsky is beyond doubt. From a purely academic POV, with all respect due to Norvig, they are in a different league. (that does not mean that Norvig may be wrong and Chomsky right on that point you are quoting. It
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by cdavid 14y ago
Sorry you got those issues with the notebook, this should not have happened. The notebook is certainly supported on windows in principle, the fact that it does not within EPD for you is a bug, I apologize for that. With the latest EPD 7.3-2

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