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by lr1970 6y ago
Nothing wrong with reshaping their focus if they also rename themselves into the Leicester Vocational School. They should be stripped of the title University that they are not worthy of any longer.
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by lr1970 6y ago
Very simple. In a lawsuit they will claim market manipulation and SEC rules violations that are not covered by the binding arbitration. I hope we are not in the situation when a mafia guy shakes you down and makes you sign a contract to set
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by lr1970 6y ago
In many academic disciplines there are no real incentives for reproducible research. On the contrary, reproducibility helps your colleagues/competitors poke holes in your papers. It is quite perverse that being secretive and sneaky is
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by lr1970 6y ago
Well, The Vim's BDFL is not that benevolent after all, hence the neovim fork.
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by lr1970 6y ago
The beauty of Halmos' derivation, which is similar but not identical to exterior algebra (wedge product), is that his approach is basis independent. A determinant by his definition is scalar invariant over all bases. It is very geometr
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by lr1970 6y ago
> Really, I don't see what you like about Halmos definition of the determinant... Halmos shows (it is almost trivial) that the space of anti-symmetric n-forms Wn over L_n is 1-dimensional. Wn(Ae1,...,Aen) = const*Wn(e1,...,en). This
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by lr1970 6y ago
The best, by far, book on Linear Algebra that elegantly teaches it from Vector Spaces and Linear Operators point of view is Paul Halmos "Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces" For instance, the way Halmos introduces the determinant of
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by lr1970 6y ago
> I sort of wish there was some official `Outcome` type defined as an alias of `Result<T, Box<dyn Error>>` Would it be as easy as type OutCome<T> = Result<T, Box<dyn Error>>;
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by lr1970 6y ago
Most of the scientific breakthroughs are achieved by select few super talented scientists. But since we have no way to tell ahead of time who will become such a genius, we should educate and employ large number of scientists even if only ti
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by lr1970 6y ago
The linked article is from February 2018 -- almost 3 years ago. How relevant is it now in 2021?
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by lr1970 6y ago
It seems that the major factor of drastic decreese in Europen eel population since 1980s has been swimbladder parasite desrupying eel's lifecycle [1] [1] https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11
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by lr1970 6y ago
Please note that M1 MBP with 16GB of RAM is being compared to Ryzen 5800X machine with 64GB of RAM. GC-driven memory management performance (I am looking at you Java) can tangibly affect the benchmarking results.
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by lr1970 6y ago
> This feels like "rust 2021 governance roadmap", Please don't get me wrong -- governance is important. But concentrating on governance for the entirety of 2021 leaving technical roadmaps to the teams is surprising. What p
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by lr1970 6y ago
In those days there was a lovely LuaJIT based tensor manipulation language torch7 [1,2] developed by Leon Bottou. It later became basis for PyTorch. I still believe that Lua in general and LuaJIT in particular are much superior to Python fo
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by lr1970 6y ago
Everything you mentioned has nothing to do with UI/UX.
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by lr1970 6y ago
A former Intel engineer here. Paul Otellini -- a non-engineer -- was not a right man for the CEO job. He instilled a bean-counting culture driving technologists out of the decision-making process. It was downhill ever since he became the bo
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by lr1970 6y ago
> If your team really knows what they're doing and can take advantage of the flexibility without creating a mess, they can let you move really fast and make elegant DSLs and so on. [..snip..] I never thought I'd say this before
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by lr1970 6y ago
Yes, if you want to operate in "unsafe" mode you can manage memory yourself with pointers and malloc/free. But it is rarely needed in practice. Also, Nim compiles to C or C++ (and also to Javascript). Because of that Nim&#x27
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by lr1970 6y ago
Too bad they did not try Nim [1]. IMHO, Nim is better than Rust for C/C++ expats. [1] https://nim-lang.org/
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by lr1970 6y ago
The first and the Best Bond ever! RIP
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by lr1970 6y ago
Tom Lehrer's sharpest satirical song IMHO is "Wernher von Braun" When rockets are up, Who cares where they come down, It's not my department Says Wernher von Braun plus many more satirical pearls in just one
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by lr1970 6y ago
Not only `Learning Python, 5th Edition by Mark Lutz` is a tome standing at 1500+ pages -- it is hopelessly outdated. Published in 2013 it covers Python-2.7 and Python-3.3 only. By now both these versions are deprecated.