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by ihnorton 12y ago
> I think the service that will do really well in enterprise is one that merges the functionality of ShareFile into Dropbox, with IT integration. EMC Syncplicity is targeting that usecase (no idea how well it works, yet).
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Python and Julia have a nice interactive notebook: IPython/IJulia.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
> And of course Starbucks will never franchise (well, Marriott, but look at how that turned out) Interesting - I always assumed that the "we proudly brew Starbucks" locations at bookstores/college cafeterias/airports&
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by ihnorton 12y ago
(not Viral, but) yes - log was the first thing that came up when this paper was discussed on the Julia mailing list. Julia's openlibm is intended to provide cross-platform accuracy and consistency, but the log function turned out to be
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Relatedly, the motto on D.C. license plates is "Taxation without representation": http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Washingto...
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by ihnorton 12y ago
To get a full sense of the level of activity, see here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulse (and that is only the core - there is also considerable activity in the packages) More frequent posts on the main bl
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Very interesting response to one of the flash questions at the end: >> What is the least evidence-based, most irrational area of your life? > High-risk, optimistic hiring of people. I'm interested in the trajectories of people
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by ihnorton 12y ago
ResearchGate's Open Review [1] and PubPeer [2] have some of what you might want. Both had excellent discussion/criticism about the acid-bath stem cell paper a few months back, for example. However, at least for PubPeer, the active
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The overview paper [1] is a reminder of the pace of change in computing: > DARPA’s HPCS program was launched in 2002 with five teams, each led by a hardware vendor: Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SGI, and Sun. It also has one of the mo
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The languages are: Lua, Factor, Elm, Elixir, Julia, miniKanren, and Idris.
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The OP makes an interesting point, but I think Steve Hsu's post below provide a more nuanced discussion of Oppenheimer and of the book mentioned in the linked article: http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2013/07/stra
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Support is, indeed, nascent; but it is coming along well: https://github.com/JuliaGPU
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by ihnorton 12y ago
> Some aspects are quite promising, one is to JIT compile away most of the FFI glue, another is interaction with Numpy/Scipy code. As a note, both of these things are available in Julia. The built-in `ccall` allows FFI calls without
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Indeed. Proximity facilitates our communication and judgement faculties in a way that is hard to replicate online (although it is a very interesting problem to contemplate). Is it possible to replicate the experience of following a professo
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Typed Lua: An Optional Type System for Lua [pdf](lifl.fr)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
It's a safe assumption for essentially all biomedical research, but specifically, the senior author's website: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Labs/Ghetti/PWT/index.cfm?Sect...
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Not that it helps now, but within 12 months the article will be available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24910347 NIH-funded researchers are required to deposit pre-proof manuscripts (text and images without
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Interesting - this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_transcranial_magnetic_stim... I hadn't seen this before. Very cool!
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The parts of the brain that one would want to stimulate for direct "pleasure hits" are quite deep in the brain and at this point are only reachable [edit: there are some deep focal stimulation techniques under the development, see
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> Massachusetts has a hard time getting stuff done, but it does seem to happen eventually (convention center, new garden, big dig). Heh, I was going to respond "but Assembly Square is moving so fast". Then I read the Wikipedia
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> 6) anywhere in the universe. Unless they were covertly testing your attention to detail and reading comprehension, this last one seems like a prank by a bored intern or paralegal :) Did you have a chance to discuss this, and if so, wh
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Here is a more informative summary from the agency: http://www.csb.gov/csb-board-approves-final-report-finding-d...
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Some similar intermittent fasting studies related to autophagy and mTOR (rather than PKA in top article): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534972 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468&
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by ihnorton 12y ago
From the article: > It may seem counterintuitive, but the more selective the college you choose, the higher your likelihood of graduating. Selective colleges have the resources to give focused attention to people who can (demonstrably)
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> They have unstable family structures, little to no culture, little to no rules, and no care for education. I wonder how that could possibly happen after 350 years of forcible familial separation, extermination of cultural practices, ar
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Lua does seem to attract a number of prolifically productive people.
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Isn't this one of the oldest educational strategies in the book? Or has it somehow gone out of favor? Nearly every education-related movie has a scene of the teacher specifically picking students to answer questions (often the slacker
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Note that the actual title of the talk is "Introduction to Julia". This is not the first time Julia will be presented at SciPy, and the SciPy community has been very welcoming.
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> I don't think a CLA typically assigns copyright. Be sure to read the fine print. The main point of the CLA for most corporate-backed projects is to allow re-licensing under different terms (read: proprietary). This does not requir
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If OP is +4 SD ability ("Will Hunting" level), and/or the godson of Timothy Leary, who grew up in an academic family with Stanford Ovshinsky as a close family friend, then YMMV :) Media Lab Director is not a tenure-track posi

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