dunefox

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by dunefox 6y ago
Yes, it's just a request but it's quite a worrying trend that it's okay to even have a politician propose this - especially with the Stasi not long ago...
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by dunefox 6y ago
Meanwhile in Germany: "Hey, wouldn't it be so swell if people needed to provide their ID when signing up for email accounts and instant messengers?"
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by dunefox 6y ago
This all seems cool until you realise that Lisp had full compile time access to the whole language for decades.
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by dunefox 6y ago
I don't care about production or performance much; I care about data analysis and machine/deep learning for NLP. Whatever lets me use the best language and packages is best and so far it's Julia with the ecosystems and tools
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by dunefox 6y ago
> The ecosystem is still pretty barebones compared to Python There's help: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl Works like a charm.
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by dunefox 6y ago
> I think humans for a long time have regarded animal intelligence in an inferior light. Well, it is objectively inferior. That doesn't mean that it's not intelligence.
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by dunefox 6y ago
> Java --> to learn interfaces, object oriented code, and an introduction to functional programming concepts like lambdas, pure functions, the value of immutable objects Jesus Christ, Java as an introduction to functional programming?
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by dunefox 6y ago
So... your problem is what exactly? Downloading files takes time? Steam has to be installed? Automatic updates?
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by dunefox 6y ago
> Compare that to the Steam or Origin pain when I need to spent hours trying to install all that stuff and having my computer full of spyware afterwards, yuck! Yeah, double clicking on a game and having it automatically downloaded and ex
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by dunefox 6y ago
No, I mean that it has nothing to do with compilation of strings. Homoiconicity means code is represented via data structures, so it can be manipulated with the language itself. C++ is not homoiconic.
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by dunefox 6y ago
It's very different since Lisp doesn't 'compile and run strings', it treats code as data structures - which means you can manipulate code just like data since they live in the same space, so to speak. And also, it has no
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by dunefox 6y ago
Yes, indeed, Code as Data isn't difficult if you just do something else. Your example is completely different from what the concept means in Lisp.
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F#+(fsprojects.github.io)
2 points by dunefox 6y ago|0 comments
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by dunefox 6y ago
This is where Julia and PyCall come in.
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by dunefox 6y ago
I think Steel Bank Common Lisp is a good name and the pun makes me like it even more. How is "Steel Bank" any different from a made up name? It's not.
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by dunefox 6y ago
If Go, not Julia, replaces Python it would be a joke.
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F# Units of Measure – A Worked Example(stevenpemberton.net)
5 points by dunefox 6y ago|0 comments
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by dunefox 6y ago
> I would like to have something similar for Python. For anything 'scientific' there is Julia (with PyCall and RCall).
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by dunefox 6y ago
If you don't know the language and tools it definitely takes quite some time to setup Java, Maven, etc. All the issues with class paths, manifests, and so on, that are just completely alien and opaque coming from any other language mak
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I Love F# for Mathematical Planning(matthewcrews.com)
3 points by dunefox 6y ago|0 comments
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by dunefox 6y ago
This is exactly what I'd like to use F# for. However, I don't know if there's a good ecosystem for F# that gives me anything over Julias, for example.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Oh, I misread that completely.
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by dunefox 6y ago
> I'd say Kotlin is the language with the most adoption that ticks the boxes. How? Kotlin is decisively an object oriented language.
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by dunefox 6y ago
It certainly looks very complex and feature heavy.
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by dunefox 6y ago
That kind of sounds like a worse Common Lisp.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Yep, I often hear people say their favourite language would be great for scientific programming, it only needs scientific libraries and people to use them. Julia already has those things, they're not easy to get.
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by dunefox 6y ago
For Julia there are PyCall and RCall, so the ecosystem is less of an issue than with other languages. Also, its ecosystem has been growing quickly over the last 2 years or so. https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl http
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by dunefox 6y ago
There's this, could be helpful for basic Julia: https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html
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by dunefox 6y ago
You might take a look at Julia with PyCall and RCall, if you haven't already. I find it solves a lot of headaches I have with Python while allowing me to leverage the ecosystem.
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by dunefox 6y ago
That looks great, thanks.

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