geoalchimista

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by geoalchimista 7y ago
I would dismiss a lot of his comments on Python because they were so biased by his preference of a MATLAB-like syntax.
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by geoalchimista 7y ago
Well, posting arguments on Reddit or GitHub is not how peer review or academic correspondence works ("peer" means someone who has a track record of publications in the field s/he is reviewing). Those arguments need to be writ
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by geoalchimista 7y ago
Only someone without basic physics literacy would jump from the fact that "planets revolve around the center of mass of the solar system" to the clickbait conclusion "earth does not orbit around the sun". They missed tha
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by geoalchimista 7y ago
> It's really frustrating having to use a subpar and inexpressive language like Python because of the huge data science network effect. I'm afraid that the "network effect" is gonna continue for the years to come. NDA
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
In my opinion, the biggest inconvenience with Modern Fortran is that the toolchain is in no way modern . There is no language-level support of a linter, a package manager, a document generator (I use Doxygen but it is not Fortran specific)
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
Should have "(2007)" in the title. BTW this does not look like a solid textbook on cell biology. More like "a very short introduction".
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
It is an editorial not a peer-reviewed research article. Mind the difference.
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
One interesting triviality. In modern Fortran you can do "list comprehension": integer :: i integer, parameter :: n = 20 integer, dimension(n) :: index = [(i, i = 1, n, 1)] ! list comp And this works just like ran
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
I would add that since Fortran 90, you can also get scalar-array and array-array operations for free. The `elemental` keyword that automatically broadcasts pure scalar functions to multidimensional arrays works almost in a way reminiscent o
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> You can precisely "quarantine" the "human referree part within the framework of a formal proof. I think it is unlikely you can separate the two precisely. If it be so, mathematicians can replace doctors who make diagnose
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
Machine checked proofs only work for deductive, non-experimental disciplines. You can't use machine checked proofs to tell if a drug is effective or not. Human referees have to be involved no matter how advanced the AI is.
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
For me, SML was the gateway drug that lead me to OCaml.
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
I am a layman. Whenever I see the divide between analytic philosophy and continental philosophy I find it funny, since there is no continental physics or continental chemistry .
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Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide (2014)(web.stanford.edu)
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
Classical Greek in Latinized spelling, I would add. Still, the noun/adjective declensions are Latin.
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
I would argue against this idea because: 1. The mapping from Latin binomial to digital code is not a difficult problem if there is a universally used, standardized database of fungi. 2. Human mind does not think in digital code. The name ex
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
That's absurd. What if the driver is someone who cannot afford the high rent price at the city center and commutes 20 mi every day from a cheap suburb to work? I'd be fine if the ultra-progressive SF politicians could just mind th
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> in any case the chinese word is mi and has no linguistic relation to the word rice I'm not suggesting a Chinese origin of the word. But I suspect this may not be the final answer. First, the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of the c
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
Genetic evidence suggests that rice was cultivated in Southeast Asia (Yangtze River Valley). See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101000/ . So, its true linguistic origin may still be something up
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
There is an updated version of this tutorial on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09060
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
Try `latexmk -c` to remove all the temp files.
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> 2. Geologists don't run experiments with n earths and randomized double-blind trials. Do you think they're not scientists either? Although they can't travel back in time to do controlled experiments , computer simulatio
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
Sure. But do you think Marxists care for the working class and the poor?
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
While I think moving away from daylight saving time (DST) is generally a good thing, but why EU not individual nations? Do nations under EU have no authority to determine whether they observe DST or not? In the US, the federal government
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
There you go [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_name [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_name Some cool (but not so weird) alternatives to popular US names.
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> Use Python + Numba, Python + C, Swift, Cython, Go, Lua-Jit, Rust, D - surprise us! I'm familiar with Python scientific ecosystems and currently learning Julia and Rust. As far as I see it, these languages likely do not compete wel
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> Right now, there's a bunch of quality EU series on Netflix already such as Casa De Papel and Dark. Just wanna add to this. Babylon Berlin is also shockingly great. Wish Netflix could introduce more series like this to the US mar
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> you’ll understand them by osmosis even without having read them. Depends on your goal. Reading a classic by "osmosis" may be enough to make one a dilettante, but doesn't bring about the enlightenment you would experience
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> if you want syntax highlighting etc. then use view I'd like to recommend pygmentize also for syntax highlighting. Works like cat and supports a lot of languages. But since pygmentize is written in Python, it may not run as fast as
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by geoalchimista 8y ago
> I was pretty blown away by the scale and ambition of the Belt and Road Initiative. You can wait for the debt crisis to blow up in the next five years.

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