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by complex_pi 3y ago
Besides the technical part, Fortran's community has evolved a lot as well since 5-10 years. See the community paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15110 "The state of Fortran" (not an author myself)
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by complex_pi 3y ago
The EU has their own mastodon instance at least. Only for official accounts but it means they are part of the federated network
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by complex_pi 3y ago
To all who suggest nix or docker or whatever. Please consider that it should not be necessary in the first place. 20 years ago Apple advertised its laptops as "real Unix on your laptop" which rightly appealed to a lot of scientist
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by complex_pi 3y ago
Firefox supported FTP until a few months ago. Not sure which version though, but it is fresh in memory: I had some such URLs in my history that couldn't be displayed anymore
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by complex_pi 3y ago
The current academic system produces (in small quantity of course) interesting science by chance and not by design. Local funding agencies only reward what's fashionable and are (mostly ) unable to fund anything new Pursuing in academi
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by complex_pi 3y ago
Primary office program since a decade or so. I don't own MS Office and for many purpose it is quite convenient to have/be able to use files on disk (admin forms, attachments and downloads, etc). I use cloud tools when needed but I
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by complex_pi 4y ago
I am always surprised that people are surprised about Fortran's activity! It works and your code will likely still compile 10-20 years from now. (It is certainly not perfect and sometimes it is annoying, but the same can be said about
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Climate Scientist Answers Earth Questions from Twitter(youtube.com)
1 points by complex_pi 4y ago|0 comments
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by complex_pi 4y ago
In short: the authors make a good summary of these ideas: - Entropy in thermodynamic equilibrium is well understood. The early theory (before statistical mechanics was developed) fits well with our modern understanding. - The analogies made
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by complex_pi 5y ago
This short video explains the system very well. https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken/status/14846797598292090...
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by complex_pi 6y ago
Fortran is hot at the moment :-) See "Resurrecting Fortran" (blog post by Ondřej Čertík https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445438 https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecti
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The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
3 points by complex_pi 6y ago|0 comments
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by complex_pi 6y ago
Co-editor of the lecture notes here, if someone has a question.
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by complex_pi 6y ago
Can you report on your screen resolution?
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by complex_pi 7y ago
There is also https://scipy-lectures.org/ :-)