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by ihnorton 12y ago
Julia has macros denoted by an at-sign (e.g. @inline) to make clear that something special is going on. Understanding how to write effective macros takes some work - perhaps more than Lisp; I can't fully say, myself - because expressio
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The previous XPS 13 can be had in this price range on eBay, at least refurb, and there is very little difference between the current and previous CPU: http://ark.intel.com/compare/81015,72054 I have the early '13
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Not necessarily git - see IPFS http://ipfs.io/
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All of the basic pieces are available here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/pyjulia
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In this case, you could either use the Python multiprocessing module, or start the python listener from another Julia worker as suggested in the SO answer. I just tried the latter and it works fine: you need to do `@everywhere using PyCall`
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Indeed, good catch - that wasn't in the originally-linked article and I completely overlooked COSAC when looking up the instruments. So here is some info on COSAC: http://www.mps.mpg.de/1979406/COSAC It is also
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The underlying data here comes from the Ptolemy instrument, a gas chromatograph mass-spectrometer (ion trap, in this case) which can measure ratios of molecules in a range of 14 to 140 Da. (It might also be able to identify somewhat larger
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The ocaml-re module linked in this article is a neat read. A PCRE parser in ~200 lines: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-re/blob/master/lib/re_perl.ml
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There have been some changes [1] in recent years attempting to address this. Since 2007, all drug, biologic, and device trials in the US must be registered with ClinicalTrials.gov after phase 1 (which, at least in principle, addresses safet
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Julia is really designed to feel dynamic while minimizing the run-time dynamicity the compiler must account for. Type inference and method specialization play a big role, and you can read the Julia papers (on julialang.org) for a discussi
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And what do all of those have in common? Strong unions, or legally-sanctioned licensing boards.
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Before you do that: become very familiar with the concept and consequences of RVUs (and, ideally, ask an active GP).
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President Obama made a major, iconically-staged speech in Cairo in 2009 regarding relations between Muslim-majority countries and the NATO (approximately) West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Beginning
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by ihnorton 12y ago
For what it's worth, in the Google [X] talk last year, they briefly mentioned running actual plasma confinement experiments (although I guess not reaching fusion conditions or that would probably have been publicized). https:/&#x
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Content-free article, but presumably it is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor This is not the first time they have gone public with this - Charles Chase gave a talk at Google X last year, recor
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One of the quoted scientists, Dr. Fasano, discovered a protein called zonulin [1] responsible for mediating the permeability of cells in the gut, with possible implications for gut-involved autoimmune diseases. He authored a fascinating (so
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Ebola: What needs to be done right now(tillett.info)
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Interesting move, but: this, folks, is why hospitals buy from $BIGCORP (Epic, GE, Siemens). edit: to clarify, by "this" I mean "stability". One path to build a medical software company has been to start by targeting indi
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DragonEgg is an LLVM backend for GCC: http://dragonegg.llvm.org/ There was some discussion of joining forces in the early days of LLVM (ca. 2005 I believe), but for various reasons that did not go forward. Licensing is inde
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That is a great read. It has been posted several times but didn't get much traction, unfortunately. > Admissions to Ivy league schools is not as objective as it should be. There is too much focus on fluff and not ability/potent
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by ihnorton 12y ago
It really depends what libraries you need. You might be interested in: http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html (also a searchable package list).
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This paper was an interesting read! And thank you for the exceptionally well-selected references: I think I will enjoy reading several of those. I'm not sure about the others, but as far as Julia goes, the main parts of the language im
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Yeah, it was exciting. The Julia ecosystem is growing quickly. A few months ago I could more-or-less keep up with all of the issues on most of the important packages, but doing so now feels impossible. A lot of new packages are still at the
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Unfortunately not. There was a Mathematica-in-Julia-in-LightTable cameo which you might have found amusing. Maybe we can record in the future, but having everything be informal and low pressure gave it a really fun feeling.
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Mike Innes gave a talk/demo of this at the Boston/Cambridge Julia meetup [1] last night and it was really impressive. Some highlights: - interactive sliders to manipulate input parameters - support for inline plots (like IJulia)
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Some previous discussions of similar techniques (from different groups): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7591573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8129934
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The paper contains some preliminary human data as well. From the New Scientist writeup: But can the results in mice be extrapolated to humans? To find out, the team examined data from 381 people. They found an association between glucose i
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by ihnorton 12y ago
> i felt that all Microsoft had to do for twenty years, was expose functions form the NT kernel, to stay ahead in terms of features. I got some hints of that feeling while poking around http://undocumented.ntinternals.net&#x2F
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Shared-memory multiprocessing is supported in the latest release on linux and mac. Multi-threading is in development and has seen some significant progress over the past few months. > But I'm sure, it's on the right track. Yes,
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is on the ground and is one of the most effective ways to directly support efforts to aid Ebola victims and stop the spread (disclosure: I just donated): https://donate.

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