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by ihnorton 13y ago
Julia certainly allows you to redefine functions, it simply doesn't trigger automatic upstream recompilation. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8656066 > I'm running Emacs with a split window for devel
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by ihnorton 13y ago
"The Father of Floating Point" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Not getting something so basic correct tells me to avoid the whole thing for fear of getting subtly screwed by some other oversight. No one denies that this is a problem, and it will be fixed. But I disagree that it represents a fundament
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Do you have an example of a language with arbitrary-precision overflow by default and comparable performance?
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Julia supports arbitrary precision arithmetic just fine, but you need to explicitly use it. Overflow checks don't matter in Python or Ruby where everything is relatively slow. See also: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/not
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Regarding workflow, the best option is IJulia ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl ) which has nice integration with plotting and useful things like LaTeX. Vi and Emacs are well-supported, and I know the Sublime tool
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by ihnorton 13y ago
1. I disagree, but ok. Comment rankings may or may not be very interesting, and if there are many comments in a 24h period it is totally unhelpful (want to find latest comments with [x] keyword) 2. cool :) 3. I had checked [All], but the re
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by ihnorton 13y ago
A couple requests: 1. sort by date. this is very useful to find discussions which have dropped off the front page but might still have interesting updates. 2. verbatim search (right now "algolia" -> "algorithm") 3. fi
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Not a forum exactly, but julia-users and julia-dev are hosted on Google Groups which does threading and remembers what you've read. See the homepage for signup (julialang.org)
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Do! The improvement over the past ~6 months has been staggering.
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by ihnorton 13y ago
> Julia will lack enough libraries, especially on the unscientific part (GUI, databases, network, all the other stuff you need). Yes, but this is rapidly improving. Julia has Gtk bindings that have seen a lot of improvement over the past
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by ihnorton 13y ago
This is a very interesting post, and his previous discussion series on libjit is itself fantastic: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/10/17/getting-started-with...
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by ihnorton 13y ago
For example, when United States Army veteran Ronald Thompson fired two warning shots into the ground, he intended to scare off his friend’s grandson, who was attempting to enter her home after she denied him entry. He never imagined his ac
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by ihnorton 13y ago
The article said cloning on an industrial scale , not hog farming. 500/year large mammal cloning is quite a lot more than anything I've ever heard of. That was the actual point. The things they are claiming to do are not novel, b
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by ihnorton 13y ago
In addition to what jamesjporter mentioned, Julia has IMHO a very nice, clean shell interaction paradigm for this very use case ("glue"): http://julialang.org/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/
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by ihnorton 13y ago
SageMath Cloud has open signup: http://cloud.sagemath.com
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Same for medical equipment. The Windows XP EOL is a major problem because all of this kit has been "certified" to run with XP, and re-certification is costly. There might be a market for a $50-100, two-port firewall/DMZ solut
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by ihnorton 13y ago
The idea is to run just below the Bohm limit (see eg pg 13 in [1]), where the temperature and density required is much lower than that for Tokamak-style inertial confinement fusion. They adiabatically pre-heat and then inject a field-revers
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by ihnorton 13y ago
A comment response by the top poster [1] deserves a full read as well, for observations of behavior, motivations, and recidivism by others in the system. On the latter note, there is also this sobering paragraph: ...Here in Colorado we hav
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by ihnorton 13y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that open access, while important, isn't really relevant to this discussion as publishers like Nature already embrace open access. Uh, I just tried accessing a random article in
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Ah, neato. I spent a lot of time staring at the Inmarsat signal strength down there!
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by ihnorton 13y ago
This is worth a read, especially for this point: However attractive libertarianism might be in theory, “Libertarianism…Starting Now!” has the ring of special pleading, especially when it comes from the mouths of people who have
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Great introduction to libclang and cindex from Eli Bendersky: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/07/03/parsing-c-in-python-... . (another shameless plug: libclang bindings are also available for Julia)
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by ihnorton 13y ago
> As someone who has done integration with Iridium and Inmarsat for the NSF USAP vessels?
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by ihnorton 13y ago
Existing Python libraries can be called quite easily from Julia using PyCall ( https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl ) Regarding ecosystem development, one advantage that Julia has is the low learning curve between &quot
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Can I prevent Google from tracking which links I follow in downloaded PDFs?(webapps.stackexchange.com)
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The beauty of this protection racket equilibrium is that everyone gets exactly the amount of protection they can afford. This leads to rapid and efficient re-allocation of resources (via the mafia/police) when inefficient organizations
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Front-loaded prevention (ie regulation) serves as a damping mechanism against short-term maximization with irreversible consequences. A lawsuit and ruined reputation do nothing to stop the next guy.
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Whenever I make this argument, a historian I know retorts that media bias is older than the country; the only difference now is the veneer of impartiality. Founding-era newspapers were forthright with and proud of their leanings.
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From the article: Of course, the challenges continue. Today, rising demand for quinoa has led its price to skyrocket in poorer Bolivian communities, which still depend on the crop as a protein source, making it unaffordable for some famili

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