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by legobmw99 5y ago
I think it’s too soon to say, but there seems to be substantial evidence against what you’re claiming. In fact, it may be the opposite entirely: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v2.... htt
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by legobmw99 5y ago
I’ll add an alternative answer to the variety you’ve gotten: functional programming is often given a bad name for not really corresponding to the way computers actually work. When you’re writing C, it can feel like the code you’re writing c
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by legobmw99 5y ago
The history of programming languages is one of my personal interest fields, and I find it fascinating how, 25 years on, many of the most popular languages are still slowly encorporating core features of functional languages like OCaml: reco
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by legobmw99 5y ago
> There are no bad programmers, only insufficiently advanced compilers I know this is meant in jest, but it seems like a pretty good perspective to have on the interplay between learners and the tools they're using
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by legobmw99 6y ago
This book is very good. Reading it online is fine, but I highly recommend the curious download it actually run it from your favorite editor
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by legobmw99 6y ago
I second Story Graph. Much cleaner, “just works”, and can import all your existing data from goodreads
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by legobmw99 6y ago
Students are in the loop in the software - it doesn’t just silently report to teachers. It would be a huge distraction to be accused by the computer of truancy or cheating for no reason
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by legobmw99 6y ago
Sadly it’s internal. I’ve found the xarray docs to be fairly comprehensive, and GitHub issues/stackoverflow fill the gaps.
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by legobmw99 6y ago
(Not the OP) I’ve been using xarray for the better part of a year now on some serious scientific projects. It certainly has some pain points and places to grow (it’s still a 0.x release after all), but when it works it’s truly excellent to
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by legobmw99 6y ago
From the PEP [1] > This rule is included to simplify the choice for the user between an assignment statement and an assignment expression -- there is no syntactic position where both are valid. 1: https://www.python.org/d