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by ihnorton 12y ago
> You don't necessarily need an undergraduate degree if you are working with a leading researcher who can vouch for you. This is true , in some sense, but don't plan on getting in to a top-30 school this way without some stron
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Yes to Pittsburgh! Excellent schools and quality of life. I mean "absolutely must" for the long-term (PhD is a separate discussion). Getting in the door is the critical first step, and definitely possible without a degree (modulo
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by ihnorton 12y ago
First: you absolutely must get a bachelor's degree in something (preferably STEMish), full stop. It is a basic signal of many positive things that people are looking for (for better or worse). And, more importantly, you will learn a
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by ihnorton 12y ago
I'm curious why this isn't automatically destructured: struct IntPoint (int, int); fn foo(x: IntPoint) { let IntPoint(a, b) = x; // Note that we need the name of the tuple
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Rust for C++ Programmers Part 7: Data Types(featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
> Or is there actually a solid way to establish prior art just by publishing your method? There is a service [1] that does this, and is registered as a "mandatory to search" resource with the WIPO. It costs $120/page, whic
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by ihnorton 12y ago
(We're both mixing threads - see below!). No worries at all :) I understand what you mean now, and I've spent enough time in places with slow/no internet connectivity, so I'm very partial to the idea. I'll file an
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by ihnorton 12y ago
There are two different questions here. See my post above for the "link against libjulia" part (possible, not turnkey yet, probably still some warts to work out). For compilation without internet access: yes, that is possible. The
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The release version is right now relatively minimal [1]: just the repl/compiler, some pure-Julia libraries, and a few important external libraries like OpenBLAS and FFTW. git is bundled to allow installation of additional functionality
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by ihnorton 12y ago
What about Rubinius? (don't know much about it; does it not qualify as successful?)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda (not really Cygwin's "fault" per se, but it is what it is)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Another ^nix -> Windows package system is the pacman port available in msys2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ msys2 has an impressive package list [1] and is almost [2] an amazing solution for mixed-plat
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by ihnorton 12y ago
That looks like mostly a skin for conemu, no? I've desperately wanted to like conemu, but every time I use it something ends up broken in weird ways (hung tabs, garbled output).
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Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge(kaggle.com)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The internet says it is written in Java: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail (possibly with some Python build tools, for which performance doesn't matter)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Also covered in the NYT about a year ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/health/new-rapid-malaria-t... The Gates Foundation has been funding development of a very similar technique by another group si
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Unladen Swallow started as an intership project and didn't get very much support at Google [1]. When US started (~2009), Google had been writing their core, high-performance stuff in Java and C++ for many years already so there was no
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by ihnorton 12y ago
I don't think it is denial per se, but rather mostly inertia. Python has been a victim of CPython's success, in the sense that there is now a huge body of work that is tied to the CPython API. This is a problem for IronPython and
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by ihnorton 12y ago
There are multiple manufacturers making NIR-based fruit quality sensors used quite far from laboratory conditions, as well as portable NIR sensors. (See my other comments in this thread)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
This is inaccurate; water content is one of the easiest things to measure with near-infrared spectroscopy, and NIR has enough penetrance to be useful even for fruits with fairly tough skins (eg avocados, see last link below) There are multi
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by ihnorton 12y ago
If your only exposure is analytical lab work (where by definition the work is difficult), you may not be familiar with the breadth of field utility of near-IR. Some application examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Here are some links to background information, existing products, and applications of the underlying technology. They could be exaggerating the capabilities of their particular miniaturized sensor, but as far as I can tell they are not maki
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by ihnorton 12y ago
This is not strictly accurate. Julia does not support multi-threaded parallelism, but there is decent (if, yes, still immature) support for multi-process shared memory parallelism - similar to Python's multiprocessing library. Not an a
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Your comment made me wonder if there was an F# implementation for the JVM. This is the only one I could find, and it is still very young: https://github.com/penberg/fjord
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by ihnorton 12y ago
This group's major peer-reviewed paper on the original murine xenograft work appears to be: http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/v16/n11/full/mt2008184a.htm... Of course the human work will be pe
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Sure, but that is a different thing than "not object-oriented inheritance". Designing with Julia's types and multiple-dispatch is different , but there are some nice patterns emerging. That said, Julia is still developing. T
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Single inheritance is possible and used extensively in Julia. Multiple inheritance is not (currently) supported, and there are a few places where it would be useful, but it is surprising that this would be a show stopper.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Yes - the base image is compiled to a shared library. There is a mechanism for including package/user code in the system image if you compile Julia yourself. It works well with a wide range of packages, but the goal is to generalize th
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Stefan Karpinski wrote a very nice overview of multiple dispatch with many examples and some discussion of design implications: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/StefanKarpinski/b8fe9dbb36c... (he gave this as a ta
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Homotopy Type Theory receives $7.5 million DoD grant(cmu.edu)
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