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by newen 7y ago
Seriously though, why would a company want to start a months long project of moving from python 2 to 3, when their current setup works perfectly, and the project involves the horrifying boring chore of going through every single line of cod
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by newen 7y ago
True. I think it's a symptom of people who had no math education taking up programming and wanting to learn ML etc.
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by newen 7y ago
What about Wordpress? When I was trying to build my own site, wordpress popped up multiple times in my searches. When I tried it out, it didn't seem that hard to create your own custom-ish website. I don't think you even write HTM
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by newen 7y ago
You're likely right about Youtube's recommendation algorithm being much better than Netflix's. But I was thinking more in terms of how Youtube's UI allows for much easier exploration compared to Netflix. For example, whe
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by newen 7y ago
I have a math undergrad, didn't program much until my senior year. Then went to grad school in computer science. Learning data structure and algorithms was very easy for me compared to other students who came from non-math non-CS backg
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by newen 7y ago
I find it annoying how content is so easily discoverable in YouTube but with Netflix, it's almost like the site is actively trying to stop you from discovering new content in there. For example, I share a Netflix account with a relativ
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by newen 7y ago
Maybe it's work if you get paid by lines of code and JIRA tickets but programming is just a tool for me to my real work done. So I would like to spend as little time programming as I possibly can.
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by newen 7y ago
I truly wish this would become a thing. It's really frustrating having to update my installed packages and my code for some stupid change the language designers thought is sooo worth it. Just stabilize the bloody thing so I can do some
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by newen 7y ago
R's data.table package is much faster and much nicer to use than pandas.
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by newen 7y ago
Haha, what was that quote? Something like, any language is going to iterate towards a crappy version of lisp.
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by newen 7y ago
This is a very nice technique. I tried it for a couple of algorithms and while the author said that it a pretty mechanical to go from a recursive function to an iterative one, I think the non-mechanical work required to go from recursive to
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by newen 7y ago
You should try using R. You're missing out.
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by newen 7y ago
I think the difference is that there are so many more software engineers. That is, there is no doctor equivalent of a typical 50 year old developer that no one wants to hire because those doctors were filtered out through med school, reside
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by newen 7y ago
Just because someone says a fact and then a personal anecdote doesn't mean there isn't lots of scientific proof behind that fact. Not every comment needs to be someone stating a fact and then including pages of references supporti
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by newen 7y ago
You're making it sound a lot nicer than it actually is. Few issues are: you don't know if you're going to get a good boss before accepting the job, your boss can change attitude with no notice, power dynamics are impossible t
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by newen 7y ago
Or ggplot2 using RCall, which is what I use and it's quite nice.
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by newen 7y ago
If you've seen devs take months of working with git daily to start to understand some of the more advanced concepts, then maybe the problem is the current teaching method. They might learn the more advanced concepts a lot faster if the
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by newen 7y ago
It's completely arbitrarily whether a numpy function or method modifies the array or not. No way to tell except documentation or trying it out.
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by newen 7y ago
Try using R's data.table and then use pandas. Pandas is just awful to use in comparison.
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by newen 7y ago
Isn't the conversation about using Unicode variables as opposed to ASCII variables and how they are useful when implementing equations from papers and textbooks? How is spherical coordinates not being as useful as cartesian coordinates
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by newen 7y ago
I have a TI-89 emulator running in my android and it's pretty awesome. I think there are a few other emulators like N64 and other game consoles.
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by newen 7y ago
Or you could learn to distinguish between jokes and non-jokes.
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by newen 7y ago
I think cost cutting becomes a bigger priority than expanding to new franchises (I guess expanding becomes harder to achieve after a certain point and cost cutting becomes a better way to improve financials). So they use lower and lower qua
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by newen 7y ago
It's more likely particles that causes coughing.
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by newen 7y ago
Really? It's a google search away https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-10-most-read-books-i... And it's in the Guinness book of world records. Also, Christianity is the largest religion... https://en
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by newen 7y ago
Way more than that many people couldn't care less about Gutenberg though. Point being the bible is the most read book in the world.
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by newen 7y ago
You are saying that society needs certain people to have enormous sums of money to be better (however you define it, apparently you are saying that only these people can do certain things because they have individual control of large amount
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by newen 7y ago
Why is it so bad for billionaires to stop working? Presumably, with the wealth cap or very progressive tax, the resources they would currently use to make the next million dollars would be spread out over a million people and those million
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by newen 7y ago
I think this is what people means when they say the internet remembers ( https://youtu.be/JYNriatnYkE ). (It's the no man's sky jurassic park clip).
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by newen 7y ago
Are you using the Revise.jl package? Without that package, it can be painful in many cases.

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