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by japanuspus 8y ago
Rust is actually a contender in this space as well [0]. It is not something that is widely touted, maybe because of a fear that an FP-label would give rust an academic tinge? This is one of the reasons I will dedicate this year's adven
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by japanuspus 8y ago
Tools for combining the interactive work in notebooks with a more predictable linear flow are starting to mature. See for instance jupytext [1]: a bi-directional converter between jupyter notebooks and python/R/julia/... I b
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by japanuspus 8y ago
If you are into big history science fiction, I highly recommend "The Wandering Earth"[1] by Liu Cixin, which explores this theme (sort of). Short enough to read in a night. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/
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by japanuspus 8y ago
This! Still have fond memories of reverse-engineering the screen-buffer encoding on my Amstrad CPC 464 by poking values directly into the buffer and watching what happened on the display (i.e. my TV). Somehow got hold of the Z80 datasheet f
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by japanuspus 8y ago
The blog-post by fuglede with a detailed analysis of the implications of the RNG-bug is well worth a read: https://fuglede.dk/en/blog/bias-in-net-rng/
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by japanuspus 8y ago
As an atomic physicist, it is great to see clever atomic physics experiments opening up new fields in high-energy physics. The team has been working incredibly hard for this: Jeff Hangst who leads the experiment was already working on this
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by japanuspus 8y ago
This. I have made it a rule to always use the bike when going around town. With kids and family, this is pretty much all the exercise I get, but it's enough that I haven't gained any weight from 8 years of free food at the office.
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by japanuspus 8y ago
Started setting something like this up several years ago[1], but never had the time to get it properly off the ground. There are a few existing alternatives including dropsite.com and paperplane.io, but I always end up missing some feature.
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by japanuspus 8y ago
To put "relatively recent" in context, I know for a fact that these rules were already in place in 2005 (source: was doing DARPA-funded research).
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by japanuspus 9y ago
Exactly: Modern PEX fitting go on the outside. Where I live (Denmark), PEX is used almost exclusively for new residential installations, but I haven not seen an in-pipe PEX fitting since my parents build their house in the 80's.
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by japanuspus 9y ago
Just the opposite here: I'm in my 40's and work as tech lead on a multi-discipline team. Although I manage to keep my code time up close to 50 percent, most of the really challenging stuff is systems level design/architecture
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by japanuspus 10y ago
If you are into quantum computing, IBM has recently made runtime on an actual hardware quantum computer available for free at http://www.research.ibm.com/quantum/
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by japanuspus 10y ago
For quantum physics, you have to try "Quantum Moves" which is a citizen science project studying optimal control for a particle wave packet. The preliminary results were recently published in nature ( http://www.nature.c
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by japanuspus 11y ago
This one goes to 11! Seriously, the Brotli quality setting goes to eleven -- pure genius. http://www.gstatic.com/b/brotlidocs/brotli-2015-09-22.pdf (Fig. 1)