mbauman

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by mbauman 5y ago
> What products/services does Julia Computing sell to justify that Series A? The article doesn't mention anything. That's the entire second paragraph of the article. JuliaHub is a paid cloud computing service for running
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by mbauman 5y ago
> We are stuck with Julia 1.2 Gosh, that's really old and it's not even an LTS version. I fear many of your woes stem from that. Julia 1.6 has huge improvements, and the community has rallied around VS Code now that Atom seems
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by mbauman 5y ago
Oh I agree. What's convincing to me is the momentum. The DataFrames.jl team only started focusing on performance three months ago after hitting v1.0[1] and were able to rapidly become competitive with groupbys; the performance of join
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> The fastest data.frame library in ALL interpreted languages is consistently data.table, which is R. DataFrames.jl is very rapidly catching up and starting to surpass it. After hitting a stable v1.0 they've begun focusing on perfor
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by mbauman 5y ago
Nothing has changed here. Julia Computing has always been a commercial venture — that's its reason-for-being, providing enterprise support and products built on the language. The Julia Language has always been (and always will be) ope
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All the time. Incidentally, I got these unicode α and σ by copy-pasting from tab completion in an open Julia REPL. https://juliahub.com/ui/Search?q=α&type=code&w=true https://juliahub.com/ui&#x
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by mbauman 5y ago
There's honesty (which is indeed largely good) and then there's being honest about your overinflated ego, which is what I suspect is earning you the downvotes above.
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My favorite examples show the reference algorithm alongside the code (which cites it). The goal should be that the code provides enough similarity to the reference that it's easy to transition between the two and see past those necessa
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It's all about matching the language of the literature in your domain. If you don't work in a domain that uses those conventions, you shouldn't use them. If you do, you and your colleagues should recognize it. If you'r
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by mbauman 5y ago
How much it cost to operate for its first decade of life is certainly not representative of how much it'll cost for the next given how its archive and usage have grown significantly. The grandparent implied that'd be the cost to r
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by mbauman 5y ago
See the cousin discussion below on multidimensional arrays in Haskell.
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Conversely, Julia's comprehension syntax is very powerful and quite a bit more general than what is described here — but in a different way. - They're not list comprehensions, they're one-dimensional vector comprehensions
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Yes, I know. :) I'd just say that solving the system of equations is the best way to divide by a matrix — that's why I put air quotes around "divide" above. In Julia, right-dividing matrices (with `A/B`) actually d
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It's not some obscure symbol; it's just division. It just so happens that we typically "divide" matrices from the left when solving equations like this (and matrix "division" isn't commutative) so instead
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by mbauman 5y ago
There are two things going on here: - There's strong evidence that it's not bioengineered; scientists used very strong and convincing language here. - There was initially hope of finding the zoonotic reservoir; scientists used cou
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by mbauman 5y ago
We continue to have lead poisoning problems.
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by mbauman 5y ago
> When I don’t get the results I hoped I just use !g. Easy. But the result are rarely any better This is exactly my experience. I have a "failed" search probably about a quarter of the time. Changing around the keywords can
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by mbauman 5y ago
Note that Julia has explicitly[1] taken much inspiration from APL to a further degree than NumPy does IMO. 1. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/search?q=apl&type=issues
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The best part of PA food IMO — particularly SE PA — is the snack/chip aisle in grocery stores. Whereas the aisle is almost entirely Lays brands in other regions, PA has a flourishing small-snack ecosystem and only a few have escaped t
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And this is precisely why this dynamic exists — because there are workflows with far less friction than what you've experienced. I and others successfully use them every day for things far more complicated than one-off analyses. I thi
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I mean, you're totally free to blaze your own development workflow trail. Even better if you can help in the ongoing clearing and paving of the less-used trails. But when someone complains that a less-used trail is rocky, it's go
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I'm a moderator at Julia's discourse site. We've seen this happen and we're working on improving this, but I'm also (biased and) sympathetic to the "Julia community" writ large. Julia's optimal sorts
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Hah, no I don't mean its _behaviors_ are beautiful by any means! The "beauty" is just that it had a complicated data structure built in as a primitive _looong_ ago that all packages standardized their APIs on.
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It's interesting, though, that those "clean" interfaces come with the horrors of non-standard evaluation and have caused a rather large divide between the tidyverse and base R. I fully disagree with the disparaging aspersions
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Ignore the headlines. This is rehashed blogspam citing the same report as the one I linked that just swaps the lede.
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It'll be interesting to see what a "big" apple silicon chip looks like. Does it still have efficiency cores? Will there be two tiers of system memory?
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This is effectively https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27193922
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I wouldn't believe this if I hadn't seen it myself — my mom's Christmas card to me was returned to her as "not deliverable as addressed" two weeks ago with intermediate postmarks from Feb and March. My address was
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I've always thought the CSM commanders had the most incredible and challenging role of the three Apollo astronauts. They were undoubtedly the "most alone" humans ever — at least on a physical level. Every other hour they&#x2
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State governments re-draw the lines. Sometimes they try to preserve existing districts and existing constituents for existing congresspeople, and sometimes they intentionally obliterate them (based on where the congressperson's house

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