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by el_oni 3y ago
I wouldnt even say the are necessarily competitors. More like a flathead screwdriver to compliment your phillips in most of those cases
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by el_oni 3y ago
The abandonware is the problem i have with all the niche languages I enjoy using. If you go down the communities "hot path" there are usually well maintained stuff. But the second you want to go off the path you find a lot of libr
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by el_oni 3y ago
Sounds like missing the tree for the forest. Im not from a pure cs background (so forgive my mangling of terms) but isnt a tree essentially an acyclic graph with constraints, 1 parent 2 children for example? What you're describing is a
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by el_oni 3y ago
And that's fine if the median salary increased by 7% a year (hint: it hasn't) The houses here used to be affordable for a middle income person or family. Now they aren't, that's the issue, not the sticker price. edit tld
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by el_oni 3y ago
House prices are awful, and with the current mortgage rates it makes it even harder. Last July when we first started looking at what sort of deposit we would need and how much mortgage payments would be it looked like we would be spending a
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by el_oni 3y ago
I beleive there is currently a PhD project in collaboration with Jose Valim (Elixir's creator) which is looking at distributed machine learning. There is also the NX project (numerical elixir) which compiles tensors to GPU code making
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by el_oni 3y ago
It's incredible for IO. It's not amazing at tight loop CPU intenstive tasks, but elixir and erlang do make it really easy to take something sequential and spread it across all cores (or across a cluster if you're so inclined)
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by el_oni 3y ago
Preach, maybe there is a way to alter the "template" launch.json
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by el_oni 3y ago
I got through rounds 3, 5 and 6 with just a " character. It then constructed a quote where it said things like "i understand that the password is X and should not be revealed to anyone". It was a bit flakey, sometimes it told
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by el_oni 3y ago
That's because there are hundreds of people coming from hacker news clicking the button. if you just refresh the page you can see the number change. The current total seems to be saved server side
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by el_oni 3y ago
The last paper I published came back with 4 reviews comments: review 1: This is important for the field, fix x, y and z and it should be ready to publish review 2: This adds absolutely nothing, they are missing references from research grou
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by el_oni 3y ago
True, but then you also get times when somebody who should know better implements a "in current financial year w/ special cases" function 3 times. Then your tester says it isn't correct in 2/3 places, you find out y
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by el_oni 4y ago
Bit of a tangent, but one of the things I really like about livebook[0] is that the documents are just markdown, and the codecells are literally just ```elixir``` blocks which make it quite nice to read and very version control friendly. [0
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by el_oni 4y ago
I was on a comittee organising about 8 years back for the southern universities latin and ballroom competition, so not a professional one, but also not profit making. The full day cost around £6200, that included music, demonstration couple
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by el_oni 4y ago
academic for CS maybe. Not so much for chemistry, biology etc. If you work in computation areas of those subjects you are more likely to know matlab, R, python and maybe Julia. I didn't know of anybody who had done any Lisp or Ocaml in
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by el_oni 4y ago
This is how I got into software development. During my PhD I was running some simulations using poorly written python code. initially it would take several hours. In that time i could go to the lab, run some wetlab experiments and the resul
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by el_oni 4y ago
I've recently been able to work on performance for our product mainly because our tester has been complaining that it takes too long to run all of the integration tests. I got to dig in to some hotspots in our code, some hotspots in th
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by el_oni 4y ago
I like to use vscodes code blocks. Add in # %% and it makes the code executable in isolation. Like a cell in jupyter. This means i can write a py file. Execute bits indepentantly and when im ready to check it in just remove the block commen
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by el_oni 4y ago
Probably the economies of scale that come from factory farming of animals. Vs the lower volume production of plant based meats. The fact that its a dietary choice typically made by those who are more affluent and they are willing to pay for
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by el_oni 4y ago
Ahh my apologies. Shows my lack of domain knowledge. Looking at some child comments it looks like there have been attempts to get it added to scipy since 2016.
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by el_oni 4y ago
Wrt the python package. Scipy has binomial and poisson classes [1,2]. I don't know if these fit the bill? [1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s... [2] https://doc
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by el_oni 4y ago
I wrote my thesis in Word (graduated last friday, vivad last march). The key to stop things moving around in word is to use the "in line with text" option for images. And treat images like text. If you want it centred then justify
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by el_oni 4y ago
This is great, can you install other software on it? If so it would be actually quite useful in science where old computers are used because of old software used to run old instruments. The old GC-FID i used during my PhD ran on windows 95.
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by el_oni 4y ago
I love this demo, it what got me to pick up Sasa's book. I was attending a show and tell following seeing this where an engineer was trying to isolate failure of certain functions from the rest of the system and i sent this to them. No
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by el_oni 4y ago
Well thats just the thing, if a gold atom were to replace say a copper atom in the active site of an enzyme, it would behave differently and more than likely in a deleterious manner.
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by el_oni 4y ago
Thats not true. Gold won't patina but it can react with things. It can replace other metals in key enzymes which will inhibit their function. You can also use it as a catalyst both heterogeneous (as nanoparticles) and homogeneous (as a
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by el_oni 4y ago
Yeah, when i practice programming its normally a toy version of something thats been bouncing around my head for an actual project. And normally something that i would like to learn for myself or a curiosity about how something works. Gener
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by el_oni 4y ago
Yes and no, the exothermic reaction ignites the electrolyte solvent, usually a blend of organic carbonates (depending on the type of battery). So it's almost a liquid fire, a chemical fire and an electrical fire all in one. It doesnt h
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by el_oni 5y ago
Its a complex highly aromatic (in the chemistry sense) large molecule that there is active research in trying to convert to useful chemical products. However it's quite difficult to break its bonds in ways that yield useful compounds.
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by el_oni 5y ago
Before i started work i would sit in the car while my partner was getting treatment and play switch. When she came back to the car between appointments we could play mario kart. Such a good system

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