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by dalke 6y ago
I also have the impression that CS papers all too often recapitulate the topic's history. I don't see the point. Other fields seem to leave it as "for a review of the topic see", cite someone(s) else, and get on with the
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by dalke 6y ago
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Nano says they are all difficult to fix, and they don't have batteries to sell.
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by dalke 6y ago
Nicely spotted (re: Apple battery service)! I saw the iFixit rating of "very difficult" and its need for specialized tools I don't have (at https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+Nano+5th+Generation+Batter...
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by dalke 6y ago
It looks like most of those are old hardware. So far only see xDuoo as a new one. What do you use for podcast management?
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by dalke 6y ago
Oops, I didn't explain that part. One of the joys of the iPod was that I didn't really have to worry about charging it on a regular schedule. It would hold its charge for a long time. Eg, I took it bike camping and listened to Har
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Ask HN: What can replace my iPod for podcast listening?
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by dalke 6y ago
Do you know about manually-sorted edge-notched punched cards? Frank Brown popularized the term "cheminformatics" in 1998. Its meaning evolved. Johann Gasteiger in 2006 describes it more broadly as "the application of informat
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Cheminformatics Before “Cheminformatics”(youtube.com)
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by dalke 6y ago
I and my spouse are US citizens living in Sweden. We enjoy it very much. I could think of moving to Norway; similar enough culture, and I miss mountains. My spouse could think of moving to Denmark, because of the better tasting food. Neithe
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by dalke 6y ago
There are people who think Haskell is easier. Which is why I attempted support my personal beliefs via examples of Python uptake. Something you interpreted as an argument by popularity. I observe that https://julialang.org/l
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by dalke 6y ago
I think Python is a better teaching language because it comes out of and is informed by ABC. ABC went through user testing to see how to develop a programming language that would make it easier for non-programmers to learn how to program. R
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by dalke 6y ago
"Everyway" seems like unneeded flamewar fuel. Here are a few things where it seems that Julia is not strictly superior to Python: Julia doesn't run everywhere that Python does. Especially if you include all of the Python impl
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by dalke 6y ago
Abstractly, sure, there's a possible limit. And concretely, sure, there are other effects. I want to be able to jump on the train to visit friends, but don't because it's not necessary travel. But as is very well known - it&#
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by dalke 6y ago
Isn't that what we see in the Folkhälsomyndigheten site I linked to? There's roughly 4x the number of reported cases since 1 September, roughly 4x the number of hospitalizations, and roughly 4x the number of deaths. Again, eyeball
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by dalke 6y ago
Yes, it looks like "Sjukdomsfall per dag" is more correctly translated as "Disease cases per day". Though to point out, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease#Concepts says "many cases, terms su
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by dalke 6y ago
Apology accepted, and thanks for it. I cannot say if the major factor was due to lower testing. I can only say that the testing regimes were significantly different and so cannot be compared as directly as you did.
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by dalke 6y ago
I haven't gone by Andy since I was 8 years old. Using an unasked-for nickname feels condescending and even like infantilization - which admittedly is in line with the tone of the your response. The HN guidelines request that we "B
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by dalke 6y ago
Yes. The stats are at https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb... . For non-IE browsers see https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6... for plots. On the ri
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by dalke 6y ago
The title is still wrong - Sweden has had a lockdown (light, certainly, but not "no-lockdown"), what appears to be a summary of new restrictions has actually been in place for months, and there's nothing in the article which
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by dalke 6y ago
This is a rewrite of the article at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/17/sweden-considers... . Which they link to, so I'm not saying anything new here. But because of the two degrees of separ
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by dalke 6y ago
Thanks for the pointers! The first looks like it gives a language for SIMD operations, but not all of the intrinsics. The second is for vectorization, which also doesn't include all of the intrinsics. However! The second shows an examp
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by dalke 6y ago
Sorry, I see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way, and part of what I wrote was out of ignorance. While I didn't write it, I assumed the macro was doing some sort of equivalent to the template metaprogramming I've heard
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by dalke 6y ago
Thanks! Yes! I kept looking for "popcount" and "population count", not "Number of ones in the binary representation of x." A Julia person should update the Rosetta Code implementation to use that function. That
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by dalke 6y ago
Sure, but you can only do that if either that's a way to express what you want directly or, in the example you gave, there's a common idiomatic style that the compiler can recognize and handle. What is the idiomatic way to write t
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by dalke 6y ago
It looks like that @avx macro just tells Julia that it's okay to use the AVX instructions? My specific question is, how do I tell Julia that I want to compute the popcount of the intersection of two byte strings of length 256 bytes? A
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by dalke 6y ago
At a conference presentation the other day a speaker made the claim that well-written Julia code was as fast as well-written C code while as expressive as Python, so it solved the two language problem. My Python package uses a C extension f
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by dalke 6y ago
What?! I had no idea this was going on. I still use ftp often - my yesterday's blog post includes an ftp URL, see http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2020/0... . What's the re
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by dalke 6y ago
Enough that I got bored filling in places in Florida? I tried to figure out the cut-off for "city". Sopchoppy, population < 500, was there. It is, after all, legally a city. Oddly, "Los Cerrillos, New Mexico" was ther
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Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference(bcc2020.github.io)
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by dalke 6y ago
"Documentation" used to be a hot buzzword before it was replaced by "information science". See the first page of "Libraries and Documentation" by Godet (1939) at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu&#x2

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