mauro3

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by mauro3 4y ago
We're teaching a course at ETH Zurich [1] where --besides the actual payload of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on GPUs-- we put a lot of emphasis on "tools". Thus students learn how to use git and submit their
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by mauro3 4y ago
This YT-video explains the 8355 method really well https://youtu.be/zB8cKBYNTps . It's how I learned it. They call the sexy-move the fishing-move.
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Tectonic shift in analytics and computing is coming [to geophysics](eos.org)
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by mauro3 9y ago
Here some results for VSCode: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 Update: on my system Emacs has an average of 6ms vs VSCode 17ms.
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by mauro3 9y ago
X-ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
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by mauro3 9y ago
Here an Github issue from VSCode related to this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 which shows some results for VSCode vs emacs, neovim and sublime.
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by mauro3 9y ago
The Swiss topographic office map has a similar feature "Journey through time": https://map.geo.admin.ch Here zoomed in on one of the big glaciers, which shows how it retreated: https://map.geo.admin.ch/
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by mauro3 10y ago
Whilst Julia's foreign function interface is indeed good and it is really easy to call into C, the point is that Julia itself is as fast as C. So you don't need to write any C code to get performance, instead just tune the bottle
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by mauro3 10y ago
The outlook toward Julia 1.0 was given by Stefan Karpinski in his JuliaCon 2016 talk: https://youtu.be/5gXMpbY1kJY . But yes, the plan is to have a 0.6 and then 1.0.
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by mauro3 10y ago
Aside: femtolisp is used in the Julia parser, and was created by one of (or the) main Julia contributors. A femtolisp REPL is included in the Julia executable: >> julia --lisp ; _ ; |_ _ _ |_ _ | . _ _ ; | (-||||_(_)|__|
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by mauro3 11y ago
There are efforts under way to improve the standing of scientific programmers, for instance the UK initiative described in this post: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/06/what-is-a-researc... . There a