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by newen 9y ago
SA is basically 4chan except you have to pay 10 bucks to join. I don't really see the joke here.
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by newen 9y ago
Good for you but it's hard to take you remotely seriously when you try to relate SA and high quality conversation.
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by newen 9y ago
Haha if you pay for SA it only suggests that you are a sucker who paid 10 bucks to post on SA for a couple of days before getting banned. They are very ban happy there.
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by newen 9y ago
> print as a statement rather than a function call? That alone should be enough to make the decision I'd think. I seriously cannot tell if this is a joke or not.
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by newen 9y ago
I don't see anything wrong with that logic. It's not like I'm going to be using code that I wrote while learning in the future. And it's not like learning Prolog (or Python 2) will make me unable to learn other languages
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by newen 9y ago
And all cumulative distribution functions, x^k where k is odd, all functions F(x) = integral(f(x') dx', -inf, x) where f(x) is continuous..
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by newen 9y ago
If the weights are only 1 or -1, and each neuron can only get 16 inputs, then this is more similar to neuromorphic systems like IBM's True North than regular neural networks. And True North consumes on the order of 70-100 milliwatts.
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by newen 9y ago
> until an amalgamation of them is merged into the standard library Julia isn't completely ready That doesn't quite make sense. I'm sure there are a few more autodiff libraries in Julia than 3. You would just use the one t
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by newen 9y ago
That's not the point. The point is there is no reason to use an extra language feature unless it provides a tangible improvement in the code. In fact, there are lots of reasons not to use an extra language feature that doesn't pro
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by newen 9y ago
Tradition? ;) I only use python for deep learning, which is not really that intensive in terms of code. Also most of the code out there for deep learning works on both python 2 and 3. Also, your phrasing invites the question. Why on earth w
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by newen 9y ago
For me, it's as simple as python is not a moving target. Whatever new changes there are in python 3 doesn't affect me since I won't be using any of the new features even if I were to use python 3.
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by newen 9y ago
Yep Broodwar is the only non athletic sport I've ever followed. I used to barely play broodwar but I watched it all the time with my friends. All the excitement and commentary and so on was fun. Then blizzard came out with starcraft 2
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by newen 9y ago
Rolls eyes . 0 or 1 based indexing is one of the smallest thing to worry about in a programming language.
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by newen 9y ago
Reminds me of the APL interpreter in Julia ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVv1GipR5yU ). The APL code gets translated to Julia data structures, which is then mapped to Julia code, which is then compiled to machine code via
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by newen 9y ago
I used to read language log ( http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ ) a lot. I get why they disabled comments for most of their posts but I kind of lost interest after they did that. I am not really sure but I feel like
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by newen 9y ago
I agree with this so much. I miss reading thoughts by independent people on semi-esoteric things instead of filtered conversations on filtered topics had in vote-based sites like reddit, HN, and pretty much any other news aggregator. And I
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by newen 9y ago
Yeah, point taken about my bias. Dealing with python via jupyter has been my biggest source of frustration with python. But there are still plenty of cases where you will come across python via a bad interface, such as a shell interface to
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by newen 9y ago
There are many cases where it is. And your rudeness and devolution into pathetic statements like this is noted.
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by newen 9y ago
But in the majority of editors that actual people use (mainly, jupyter/ipython), they are invisible. Not to distract from my point though, which is that a good programming language should be easily editable from Notepad.
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by newen 9y ago
Because small invisible changes in the code text can result in actual changes in the logic of the code.
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by newen 9y ago
My point is that you should be able to code python using Notepad but it is impossible to. Yeah, when multiple people complain of the same thing and you make up more and more complicated solutions for the problem, then you know where the pro
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by newen 9y ago
I don't really see how you can justify your position, except as someone who finds code easier to read than math. People like that are mainly computer science people, who have had years of training staring at code, while there exists sw
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by newen 9y ago
RIP. The Dispossessed is one of my favorite books.
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by newen 9y ago
These issues are only there because python has significant whitespace. These issues should not have been there in the first place. Ideally, I shouldn't need to use an editor geared specifically for python code to copy-paste some python
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by newen 9y ago
Bro, literally every language does indentation. Python just does indentation badly by making it syntactically significant. Also. If you're going to come back to me with the argument that it forces people to use indentation, I've g
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by newen 9y ago
x = numpy.linalg.pinv(A) * b There we go. Code is math; just math that is encoded for computers. I think the problem is programmers who are not used to reading math. The problem is not math, which is meant to be read by humans.
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by newen 9y ago
It depends on the group that you're playing with. Catan with my family is fun because we chat the whole time, try to get each other in trouble, etc. Quiet time is pretty rare in Catan for us. Actually the one game that really tells you
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by newen 9y ago
Seriously though, Euro board games are how I made friends in grad school, and how I spend a lot of my time with friends and family.
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by newen 9y ago
Maps is a huge battery hog in Android. I've always attributed that to the GPS since I basically only use GPS for maps.
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by newen 9y ago
Yep. They always have some weird off flavor from garlic, either from being kept for so long, or preservatives

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