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by gunnihinn 8y ago
I keep thinking I should be more interested in Jupyter than I am. Maybe someone who knows things can tell me this: Can I use it to develop and debug larger existing programs? That is, can I take 10k lines (say) of Python, that are spread ac
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
There are academics interested in building journals on top of the arXiv. It's an idea that's been kicking around for a while. In math, Tim Gowers is one of the people who has been pushing for something like this. If your backgroun
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
I dislike most RSS/Atom readers for the same reason. I made my own minimal reader for my personal use [1] that only groups entries together by date and displays a feed/title URL I can click on. My browser can remember which links
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
> and that all your dependencies better be deplorable in a JVM too. Remember: Never use the standard library when a forgotten, half-assed CPAN module you can run via Perlito will kind of do.
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
Build your own really shitty Redis. Then make it less shitty. A really shitty Redis/HTTP can be built in around 100 lines in many languages (assuming the language stdlib helps you out a bit -- Python, Go, Clojure would all fit). The fu
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
I have a single asciidoc file, ~20 lines of CSS, and a Makefile that generates a single HTML file with my blog and publishes a new post with: $ make post It works just fine.
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
Nice. I did the same a couple of months ago: http://www.magnusson.io/evil-feed-reader It does very little, but exactly what I want.
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
I don't remember seeing much agreement on 0^0 so far. This line from that Wikipedia article seems pretty damning: > There is no unanimous opinion on leaving the value generally undefined. That is a pretty roundabout way of saying th
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
> I am unsure if LaTeX is completely OSS The TeX sources are widely available and (infamously) well documented. The LaTeX macros are merely widely available. I forget what licence they're under, though. What makes you unsure they&#x
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
Rarely is one at fault when two argue.
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
> Rotations and matrices are groups? Don't care. I just wanna see the strange hidden properties of abstract structures reveal themselves. ... for example by noting that rotations and matrices form a group?
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by gunnihinn 9y ago
I work in a big company. It's much easier for us to spin up a container to run whatever experimental program we've thought might be useful to help us do our job than to provision a real box for it to run on or fit it into the whol
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
And the divorce announcement will be an "Our incredible journey" post on Medium.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
It's that time of the year when I dust off my math project of six or seven years running and have another go at it. It's a research problem in Riemannian geometry I've been tinkering with since my thesis. This time I've
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
It's not surprising if you know how TeX lexes things, which you should never ever learn.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
How kindly would you look at someone who said they didn't have experience looking up documentation?
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
A counterpoint: dd survives not because it's good or makes sense, but explicitly because it doesn't. You wanna format a usb key? Google this, copy/paste these dd instructions, it works, move on with your life. You wanna forma
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
They're good instructions, Brent. 13/10 would follow again.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Speaking as almost your antipode, from a country with similar culture that has a lot of tourism, I'd like it if the people on tourist visas in my country paid access fees to similar places and we'd understand that my taxes go in p
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
For a counterpoint, read Shafarevich's "Basic notions of algebra". (Beware: author's meaning of "basic" may differ from own.) It's a book that explains all those abstract algebra concepts by introducing mo
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Of course. There's batshit insane social commentary to be done.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Value added! high fives all around
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Ah! The dead of night! When I once had my most meaningful conversations with my loved ones who, alas!, now turn to the sleep they did not before, for some reason we shall not dig into, for there lie dragons!
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Some more context: https://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/1166-how-to-hack-the-upcomi...
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
I moved to France in 2007 and didn't speak the language, to do a math degree. It was fine. The first two years were rough, but after that I had no problems, and by the time I left in 2013 people regularly thought I was a native speaker
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
> Seems like a great big gotcha waiting to happen. In Perl? Never!
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Maybe you know something I don't, but I don't find these statements about the determinant and trace intuitive just from knowing that matrix multiplication corresponds to composition of linear maps. They can be made intuitive by ap
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
I'm sorry, but that's not how that works. Your example is of a second-degree equation, which can't be solved by linear algebra. Linear algebra was invented to solve systems of linear equations, and matrices first arose as a c
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. 24 is still very young, and many people never make that move. I'm moving to another country for the third time in ten years in a few hours. You'll make friends, build relationships and have a home.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
> As one anecdote, the paper ran an advertising campaign telling people not to use the website on Sundays. ... but why? What did they hope to achieve by that?

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