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hatmatrix
4y ago
How do you get that?
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How sustainable are fake meats?
(knowablemagazine.org)
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4y ago
In the article it says Napoli, Amsterdam, and Berlin have shown the greatest increase in popularity. Paris and Ibeza are 12th and 18th, respectively. Not sure why these destinations were chosen for the title of the article.
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hatmatrix
4y ago
yEd is freeware (not free software) but I have not found a better program that matches accessibility (Java-based so runs cross-platform) and sophistication in automated graph layouts.
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4y ago
Hibernate is the alternative to sleep if you don't want to overheat your laptop and kill your battery when you transport it in your carrying case (the "sleep" of Windows 10 will do that as it's made for tablets).
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Solving the rock-hard problem of nuclear waste disposal
(arstechnica.com)
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hatmatrix
4y ago
eshell is platform-agnostic, whereas vterm is not for Windows.
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I'm aware of a discussion about what homoiconicity should be defined as after Julia claimed to be a homoiconic language. It (and many others) have ways to manipulate the AST with its own language, but requires basically a different set
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I didn't get to what extent they compared capability of these methods for extrapolation, which tree-based methods are not really suited for.
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I also would have thought Scheme to be the natural choice, but I get that "CL" is considered industrial-grade and as many people in the CL community have its advocates.
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Reminds me that there was an attempt to realize the "Back to the Future" vision in Clojure. https://github.com/incanter/incanter It never took off but looks like there was modifications made up until three ye
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Can this compete with the momentum/performance of Julia? I'd be stoked if this became widely adopted but community size seems to be a huge determinant of success with these types of languages.
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4y ago
There are many types of homework and undoubtedly some are not useful. These fall into the category which we often refer to as "busywork" - they are assigned for the sake of assigning homework because that's what instructors f
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One of the winners says that there are no concrete applications, but that some of the tools developed ("interpolation formulas") could potentially be useful for solving differential equations and signal processing, but doesn'
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I would find the use of the word "luckily" to be offensive here, as it's more to do with strategy when handling sensitive data outside of the office.
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4y ago
Sorry I meant any response that mitigates these criticisms.
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Has there been any response to "Why I no longer recommend Julia" [1]. It has made me hesitate to dive into this language. [1] https://yuri.is/not-julia/
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4y ago
Yes, but the statement provides more precision on what garbage is.
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Clickbait title. A headshot appears to be important by custom but beyond that, there's no indication that it's a determining factor. > A survey of HR representatives and hiring managers at German firms showed that more than hal
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I believe this happened at Theranos as well.
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4y ago
In my understanding, a not-fully-FSF-compliant fork of emacs with these features[1]: Performant long lines Tree-sitter font highlighting Gnus is rewritten to be non-blocking Process management is rewritten Tree-sitter replacement of ersatz
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4y ago
If this is the core of the problem, how does VSCode solve it? It seems users report less latency issues with VSCode - have they figured out how to handle the two-way communication better?
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European fruit with traces of most toxic pesticides ‘up 53% in nine years’
(theguardian.com)
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Let me ask and answer some questions here that doesn't answer your question directly. What makes a good book and why there are tons of them on the same subjects? The best book for you is the one that speaks to your technical preparatio
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I remember reading a blog around 2010 or so about someone listing "desiderata" for a scientific computing language - including Matlab, Python(?), etc. - and then settling on OCaml. A functional language for data analysis and compu
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‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data
(quantamagazine.org)
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A Conceptual Framework for Consciousness
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Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation – Nature
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Doesn't have to be leather - just saying - but also the cheaper notebooks tend to fall apart and I've lost pages this way. One thing about more expensive ones like moleskines is that they are more robust, in my experience. I hardl
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These are typical recommendations for fighting obsessive-compulsive behaviors. It's been a long time but I recall reading something like this in The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (2003) by J.M. Sch
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