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by mratsim 8y ago
You can also mix GC-managed and manually allocated types in the same codebase.
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Status.im partners with the team behind the programming language Nim(our.status.im)
19 points by mratsim 8y ago|2 comments
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by mratsim 8y ago
For now, we are still in research phase so we compile to C then machine code on our dev desktops. In the future we will probably stay with C or use C++ (for zero cost exceptions). We might not need Objective-C because the UI/UX part is
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by mratsim 8y ago
I'm glad Reddit admitted that in the open right away. Shit happens and will continue to happen, thanks for your transparency
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by mratsim 8y ago
"ok" is not an ok commit message ;). Regarding setup, you should probably provide an example with mocked keys that we can copy-paste.
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by mratsim 8y ago
It's different because the honeymoon is probably finished. You are likely considering how to best part instead of how to best work together. And you are thinking about what went wrong, how much did you contribute to it, what could you
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by mratsim 8y ago
Given the Pascal history and even consideration of Ada, with the focus on expressiveness and ergonomics I'm surprised that Nim didn't make the shortlist. Nim even has an official Pascal-->Nim converter (called pas2nim) as the v
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by mratsim 8y ago
I don't understand the "D has generally better metaprogramming, however, rust has real macros" statement. Or do you mean like even though Rust allows you to work on AST, it's too clunky compared to D string mixins?
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by mratsim 8y ago
Can you propose a template with like the 5 minimum questions you need answered to get started: 1. What is wrong or what is missing? 2. What is the expected outcome? 3. What repo/module/screen? 4. Who is impacted, how and how often
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by mratsim 8y ago
In Asia, several dozens of authors are earning millions (in USD) by releasing chapters of novels on a daily basis. And English translators gets about ~$20-$100 per day from Patreon donations: Check - https://www.wuxiaworld.com
581.
by mratsim 8y ago
So Adobe, Blender, Maxthon (Cinema4D), Maya, CaptureOne, DaVinci Resolve and 99% of the film, image, photo industry have to rewrite all their OpenCL kernels. Also currently Metal and Accelerate are completely unsuitable replacement to OpenC
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by mratsim 8y ago
I find that super exciting, is there an open repo we can check out?
583.
by mratsim 8y ago
Clickbait wording.
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by mratsim 8y ago
The performance regression is fixed and performance is even 30% higher than before (which was hidden by the perf regression)!
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by mratsim 8y ago
The code didn't change so there shouldn't be any difference on Nim stable. Unfortunately I catched a regression in Nim #devel branch itself which is very impacting if tensors are created in a tight loop. All in all I take performa
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by mratsim 8y ago
Here is a link to the documentation as well: https://mratsim.github.io/Arraymancer/ And the examples: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/tree/master/examples , including the mand
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Show HN: Arraymancer v0.4, Nim tensor library now with OpenCL and Keras-like API(github.com)
11 points by mratsim 8y ago|4 comments
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by mratsim 8y ago
I think you missed the cross-platform part of my answer.
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by mratsim 8y ago
Indeed, in my case I didn't need arbitrary precision, just extending uint64 to uint128, uint256, uint512, ... Fixed size are perfectly fine for a variety of use cases, can be stack-allocated and are much faster due to the specializatio
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by mratsim 8y ago
I would be very interested in the test suite you used. I've finished my own bigint implementation in the Nim language: - stack and power-of-2 only for uint256, uint512, uint1024, etc), - using recursive types (uint128 = 2x uint64, uint
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by mratsim 8y ago
Rust is better than Go for sure ( cough Generics) but it's already hard enough to fight the mathematics, statistics and machine learning, scientists will not want to fight the Rust syntax as well. For me, the most promising compiled a
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by mratsim 8y ago
So precise and exclusive that it's irrelevant? Google, Facebook, Netflix, Uber, Amazon, Microsoft are all using Numpy in their data science pipelines, spinning and taking down dockers for ML-as-a-service. I'm pretty sure they care
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by mratsim 8y ago
Pypy can't accelerate the Pandas/Numpy part anyway, the computationally intensive code in Numpy and Pandas is coded in C, C++ or Fortran. Though there are a lot of if isInstance(Foo, bar) that could be avoided in a statically type
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by mratsim 8y ago
That isn't fair, all languages besides JS+HTML+CSS have issues with GUI libraries. Either you go Electron/webview or you have to deal with Qt/GTK for cross-platform GUI.
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by mratsim 9y ago
I did stumble upon libxsmm while looking for a BLAS library, I didn't see they had integers. Do you know what libxsmm means by "small", there is nothing in their README/wiki. However it does say that libxsmm doesn't
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by mratsim 9y ago
When you say constrained types do you mean generics? You have generics and concepts (similar to C++17) in Nim, not too sure about Ada.
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by mratsim 9y ago
I've implemented the whole course in Nim in my tensor library: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/tree/master/src/tenso... All BLAS libraries currently only care about float32 and float64,
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by mratsim 9y ago
It depends on your field, for engineering (structural, fluid dynamics, ...) it's key. For deep learning, it's useless ;).
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by mratsim 9y ago
I think Nim or Ada would fit your needs: - very strongly typed, you can even make sure you don't add Miles and Meters together, and that Meters * Meters give you square-meters - destructors
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Nim language v0.18.0 released(nim-lang.org)
102 points by mratsim 9y ago|45 comments

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