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by fantispug 8y ago
A 3% increase in speed is a miniscule improvement. Emacs has a small dedicated group of maintainers, increasing the maintenance burden will stop other developements (such as the recent addition of async which is a much bigger performance is
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by fantispug 8y ago
I think the primary contributor stopped work on it, no one else took over, and most users don't perceive its benefits outweigh its switching costs.
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by fantispug 8y ago
I don't want to remember more of what I read; I want to have access to a breadth and depth of ideas I can justify with evidence. Repetition and flashcards will help you remember the content, but it won't help you understand it. Th
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by fantispug 8y ago
I think there's undue emphasis on "fundamental". Modelling complex systems is important in actually making real world predictions. Condensed matter physics, as one example, is an area that is growing and has a plethora practi
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by fantispug 8y ago
By similar logic you could argue all physical units are abstractions, which I guess they are. They are very useful in creating a simple accurate predictive model of things we observe on many scales. What's the utility of a distinction
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by fantispug 8y ago
I'm not sure about antivirus, but magit forks git a ton of times which is really slow on windows. You are often better off running it from inside a linux VM.
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by fantispug 8y ago
You could cobble most of this together. You could probably get notifications using org-alert. Emacs does a reasonable job parsing most html including emails to text, but occasionally you may need to view in browser if it's very html he
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by fantispug 8y ago
Because there are lots of businesses that don't have a booking API and don't see the need for one, or can't afford one. This kind of technology allows interaction with them, because it's easier to interact on a common tr
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by fantispug 8y ago
I'm traditionally a textbook person too, but I really like fast.ai. You get to see how to tinker with things in real time (which is often clunky in a textbook), and there's a lot of informal folklore that people don't normall
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by fantispug 8y ago
Also R and MATLAB/octave are array based languages too. You may consider Fortran one too. But none of them have things like dyads.
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by fantispug 8y ago
How hard would it be to follow the course using QGIS? Is it about the principles, or specific ArcGIS features? I haven't found as good courses in QGIS, but I have no interest in learning ArcGIS
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by fantispug 8y ago
There are lots of interesting problems with interacting with external underdocumented systems. I find edit and continue really useful for making something worm with these. Are these out of the reach of "professional programmers"?
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by fantispug 8y ago
But would you be sure you've actually fixed the bug? Perhaps your edit changes the state that would be reached by the continue (e.g. bug is on first iteration of a loop, and your edit inadvertantly changes the initialisation). I think
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by fantispug 8y ago
Yeah, just comint with elpy. There are some rough edges; I can't input multiline in the comint buffer (but can send it), and gives an error on the very first command, but otherwise works well.
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by fantispug 8y ago
I use this kind of workflow all the time in Emacs. I write code in one window and have a Jupyter REPL in the other and send code to the REPL to test things live as I'm coding. I'll have "pdb" set up in Jupyter REPL so it
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by fantispug 9y ago
Math is a clean room where you don't need to worry about the concrete representation. Often the details of the representation and how they connect are more to do with human psychology (keeping things understandable) than with algorithm
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by fantispug 9y ago
On https sites there's not a lot ISPs can track without breaking encryption. With shared IPs they may not even know the domain for certain (although as IPv6 takes off it will be easier to map IP to domain).
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by fantispug 9y ago
Like Grigori Perelman did?
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by fantispug 9y ago
"If You Can" by William J Bernstein. It gives a simple conservative investing strategy, and refers to other great books for the details. Available here: https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
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by fantispug 9y ago
I really like the book “Concrete Mathematics”. It might be a little hard going without much maths background, but it is filled with these kinds of tricks.
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by fantispug 9y ago
It depends on how you define the summation of infinite series. With the standard convergence type definitions you are correct. But it is possible to define this sum in a consistent way (e.g. Ramanujan summation or Riemann Zeta analytic cont
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by fantispug 9y ago
The amount of censorship varies by province; I wouldn't be surprised if it is easier in Shanghai than in other parts of China.
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by fantispug 9y ago
A lot of science is done with GPUs ... in FORTRAN and C++. I believe an n body simulation in GPUs is what started the idea of using GPU for general computation. I would be extremely surprised if you could get similar or better predictions f
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by fantispug 9y ago
Tools won't make people care, but they can help produce consistent documents. Atlassian Confluence is a horrible recommendation; it has few tools for typesetting, PDF export is very mediocre and hard to control (there is a plugin that
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by fantispug 9y ago
Pollen is a Racket language, and gets parsed into an AST and evaluated. You can programmatically generate correct markup using all of Racket. Org Babel is more about evaluating code snippets in a variety of languages. Even if you can evalua
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by fantispug 9y ago
KaTeX suffers the same issues as MathJax; it has to render some subset of Math LaTeX to something web browsers can render. We now have two standards. All the CSS issues in the article apply as much to KaTeX as anything else.
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by fantispug 9y ago
Full TeX is not a good fit for the web as it's designed to typeset paginated documents at a size known at write time. You would standardise on some subset of Math mode LaTeX like MathJax does. The challenge is then picking the subset o
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by fantispug 9y ago
I think Kodi has a decent shot at getting there - there is now a fledgling Netflix plugin. A big step towards providing content to the major streaming services (and local content) through a customisable UI.
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by fantispug 9y ago
I automated my wedding seating cards and plan. I managed invitations as a CSV (who had been invited, who responded yes and no, addresses and dietary requirements). I designed the placecards and seating plan as SVG in inkscape with special t
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by fantispug 9y ago
I once sat in on a friend's final year economics course. They talked about the "gravitational model" of economics, that the amount of trade between two economies is proportional to the product of the size of the economies eac

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