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by cdavid 10y ago
Which number is hidden ? Certainly not proportion of people working outside France (e.g. it took me 2 mins to find the one from my own former school, ~25 %). I am dubious because as mentioned by hiq above, you would need to wait much more t
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by cdavid 10y ago
I will ask citation on that one, as that's not my experience at all.
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by cdavid 10y ago
FWIW, that's lower than the US, and not that much higher than the UK (and we don't really know what is a good debt/gdp ratio). Also, those numbers are not directly comparable (e.g. in Germany a lot of what used to be counted
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by cdavid 10y ago
(I am not an economist, never took a class in economics, but am interested in the field and like to read about it, so talke all of this w/ a grain of salt) It is not so much about questioning economics 101 principles as much as questio
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by cdavid 10y ago
In case it helps other people using replicated and python together, we put together a small python client to replicated https://github.com/enthought/python-replicated . We are using it internally to test each PRs agains
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by cdavid 10y ago
Another shootout to replicated, the service mentioned to go from SaaS to on-premise. We are using it for our own offering at Enthought, and can't recommend it enough either. Good support, reactive to customer feedback. I wish more comp
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by cdavid 10y ago
Memory contiguity may be the most fundamental thing to keep in mind when doing numerical computing, for example.
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by cdavid 10y ago
it is at least partly because 100 % of day traders do less than 100 % of trades. And they play against people who are vastly more intelligent, better equipped, etc... on average. As a day trader, the odds are overwhelmingly against you.
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by cdavid 10y ago
The compiler can't optimize this in general as this affects the ABI when the struct itself is exposed (that's one of the reason why it is useful to avoid exposing struct themselves but just pointer when you can).
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by cdavid 10y ago
tonicdev seems to do it, though I have never used it: http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/09/10/time-traveling-in-node.j... note: it does undo, but not recalculation on demand ala excel.
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by cdavid 10y ago
true, but that already starts to depend on your personal details, which is why comparing countries is hard. For example, while many countries take into account your marital situation when calculating brackets, the UK almost doesn't: it
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by cdavid 10y ago
I really doubt you only pay 16 % of taxes in Switzerland. When talking about taxes, especially comparing between countries, you need to be very careful about what you are talking about. FWIW, income taxes are 40 % for income above ~32k, and
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by cdavid 10y ago
The issue w/ MSVC is not that specific to CPython. It is generally quite hard to write libraries which use multiple C runtimes (Windows or not -- it just happens to be much more common on Windows than on Unix). I would be actually very
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by cdavid 10y ago
I am not a compiler/JIT expert by any stretch, but I have never heard of a strong technical reason why python could not be as fast as JS on V8 or compiled code produced by LISP compilers. But there are strong factors against it: * the
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by cdavid 11y ago
The XIXth century history in Europe would have been much different if it were not for the French revolution (and Napoleon). For horrific Napoleon reign was, it marked the end of the constant warfare that plagued European states before (cong
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by cdavid 11y ago
IIRC, that one was a decent overview, though he has worked on similar issues in older papers: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.99.1... It has been a while since I read those papers, there may bet
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by cdavid 11y ago
Regarding L2, I think it is just the most convenient way to do the maths from a set of observations (differentiability). Later one, the link with maximum likelihood-based methods was made, by Gauss. In 'machine learning', structur
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by cdavid 11y ago
Note that the writer is the famed Ingrid Daubechies, who was one of the main driver behind wavelets and early works on sparse representations.
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by cdavid 11y ago
Python in science is more than mere wrapping: it gives you new level(s) of abstractions, unrivalled in any other generic programming language AFAIK. If it were mere wrapping, other languages would have been able to catch up fairly quickly a
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by cdavid 11y ago
I don't know about German GPL, but you have licenses like CeCILL which could be called "French GPL" I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCILL .
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by cdavid 11y ago
First, it is rather ludicrous to suggest the main difference in health care expenditures is linked to the US subsidising medicines. For example, while the US spend 17.1% of GDP in health, the UK spend 9.4 % ( http://data.worldbank
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by cdavid 12y ago
There is a lot of literature, but it may not be easy to find out, and different domains use different names for it. One keyword to look for is 'stochastic approximation', with a long (> 50 years) history in engineering and stat
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by cdavid 13y ago
the feature is maybe rarely used directly, but is crucial to make dynamic typing actually useful. Things like SQLAlchemy are possible thanks to the dynamic aspect of python. Writing a simple plugin system in python is trivial. Mocking is mo
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by cdavid 13y ago
for once, you get proper reverse search, which is not available in mysql (last time I checked, which has now been a while TBH).
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by cdavid 13y ago
The massive infiltration of union by mafia is quite specific to the US, so I fail to see how it is relevant.
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by cdavid 13y ago
It is quite difficult actually, if only for political reasons. Taxi drivers have a high level of nuisance, which gives them bargaining power. It would be suicidal for the gvt/institutions to go directly against them. While violence is
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by cdavid 13y ago
The problem is that reasonable unicode support is a non-issue in many areas were python had a strong competitive advantage over other languages (e.g. data analysis, scientific python). I don't know much about unicode myself, but some p
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by cdavid 13y ago
It is highly disruptive in terms of insurance. Insurance can only work if many people pay for the few who actually need the insurance. The best way for insurance companies to increase profits is to get rid of the people who actually need th
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by cdavid 13y ago
giving an example of something that can go wrong would be a good starting point to understand why
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by cdavid 13y ago
For the same reasons any set of non trivial softwares is: flexibility and # options means many things can go wrong. Solutions like Enthought Canopy, superpack or Anaconda exist to solve that exact problem (disclaimer: I work for Enthought).

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