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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I assume the author is familiar with Brodie's work if so many of us are.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Fun fact. Most power grids in the developed world are run off of some of the largest MILP and LP problems. We're talking about millions of constraints to commit units and hundreds of thousands to dispatch them. These run around the clo
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Thanks for pointing out the image part. I also do this with both Python and Mathematica all the time just like you, but haven't touched Racket in 10 years.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Well I hope everything is going well for you now in life! I didn't mean to imply your past was ideal and am sorry if it came out that way. Thanks for the background on chess training programs. I had a friend with Houdini or some other
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
It doesn't sound egotistical. It just seems like you had good parents and you put in a lot of hard work around a difficult subject and it paid off. I wish I had put in more time as a kid for chess and that there was more STEM materials
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I think the later games (maybe Zork 4) had graphics after INFOCOM sold off the IP. Something along those lines maybe. I've only played Zork 1 and that was text only.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
How did you become a chess master? Can you tell me more of this hippopotamus?
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
This is funny as I'm a beginner who has played plenty of the French and plenty of other openings like Queen's Gambit and Scicilian, but have never heard of Fried Liver. So we're the same, but total opposites.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yep. Map/Hash/Dictionary. I didn't know it was included in stdlib (I really thought it wasn't) and feel idiotic now. It is still odd (having a primarily scripting background and not coming from the systems side) that I h
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
At least the first one seems pretty straightforward and thanks for replying. I only just started and have a lot to learn.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
R is one of the few languages that I actually use a little bit, yet know absolutely nothing of the community and history. I mean I could tell you all about a dozen niche languages from Lisp to Haskell, but nothing of this masterpiece. Time
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea. I'm using Rust at the moment for fun and the amount of things not in the standard library is crazy to me. What? There is no built-in dictionary? What do I use instead and where is it? Edit: based off of all the replies below, ever
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Reducing all this complexity is partly why I'm hoping the Red Language project can succeed where Rebol failed. Of course you can't do everything, but a good full-stack language could cover perhaps 80% of software needs using well
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Wow...again this is all really impressive as is you taking the time to reply. I'm looking forward to starting to play with these new libraries. Is there a more focused place to talk about Julia applied to numerical work (linear algebra
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Thanks for clearing that up. I think someone else on here pointed that out as well as the fact that Matlab and some other tools provide that for you as part of your license/subscription fee. I started digging around and found out that
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Wow! A lot going on there and my sincere thanks for your part in what be a massive amount of free work that I get to benefit from. I'm really excited for what y'all have coming in the future and will stay tuned. There is some lite
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Sounds like some pretty cool research and good luck! I work with folks who manage large dynamics models for transient stability tasks, but have only been partially involved myself as I'm more focused on the market side, but dabble in o
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yep, the Jacobian is sparse. I'm using Julia a bit for work and play, but don't own a GPU to test out their GPU support quality. Does anyone (I assume the poster I originally replied to) know which situations are even worth it to
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Haha. Great question. Power Transmission. When you model the transmission grid, you can solve for the flows on the equipment (lines and transformers) where the inputs are certain equipment parameters as well as generation and load values. T
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
As someone whose entire industry runs off of a Jacobian matrix, I wonder how easy it is to run on the GPU? I assumed this was difficult as splitting up the matrix would impact the solution.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Haha. I've been playing with Rust lately, which is what led me to your blog post. I also added a comment immediately after which linked to the up to date Rust FAQ, but I believe it is buried further down. Even if it is dated, I found t
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Also, the author mentions this is in the Rust FAQ ( https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html ) now under the following question: Why do Rust programs have larger binary sizes than C programs?
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Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)(lifthrasiir.github.io)
195 points by new4thaccount 7y ago|128 comments
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
To be honest, I'm not sure I ever thought too and mine is sparse. I've repeatedly heard that contributing is a difficult process.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
So I want to start off and say that there are some good books on this list and that there is a decent range of topics: biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. However, it is like 90% physics books and not a whole lot in the computer s
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
The W3Schools site is what helped me https://www.w3schools.com/sql/ It has a database you can query and add to and what not.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
SQL (even if just SQLite) as databases open up a lot of power. Vim or Emacs for powerful text editing. A low level language. Sometimes Python doesn't cut it, or it is pretty suboptimal. If you're writing a trading bot, is speed of
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
The bricked up in tunnels example was pretty horrifying. Like I know they want to convey the value of hard work, but that is some Cask of Amontillado level crazy.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I've been watching a lot of Thomas with my kid and yea it seems to somehow be a nightmare dystopia underneath even though nobody can explain why. Stephen King's The Dark Tower spoiler below: Stephen King's masterpiece "T
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I was coming to ask the same thing? I wish someone just had a site showing a big list of neat projects. It looks like this is pretty sparse too.

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