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by ferdterguson 9y ago
Is that plus living expenses? I went to a large 'football school' type school which was not cheap, but tuition a hair under 8K for a semester.
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
Lawyers, man, am I right?
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
I've used Haskell a little. I understand the benefits of the type system from the perspective of something like a web app or libraries with abstractions. However, as someone who spends their days working on numerical code in Cython for
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
IMO, VC comes down not to tracking what was actually done, but to creating snapshots of logical steps that are reasonable to roll back to and git bisect with.
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
> Canada
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
Totally ignores scientific applications, which there aren't enough supercomputing hours to go around for. NERSC's Cori, one of the top 3 supercomputers in the world, often takes a day to start a job. Not to mention private compani
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
Totally agree. As someone who does scientific modeling, fitting models is easy. Finding the model that correctly describes my problem and can be trained with existing or easily acquired input data is hard.
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
I'm not a big fan of the GPL personally, but this is great!
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
I had the same struggles. Eventually I just went to pycharm, which is great and has full support for any environment you want.
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by ferdterguson 9y ago
SciPy did signed reviews for the 2017 conference the opposite reason. Obviously SciPy is not Science or Nature, but still. They cite the idea that if your review is tied for your name, you probably aren't going to do a crappy review be