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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
The TSA phased out all the X-ray backscatter machines due to radiation concerns. All the scanners at airports use millimeter wave radar now. Still the same privacy concerns, but no ionizing radiation and thus no possible health concerns.
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Except the technology (a simple google search, for example) eliminates the need for a computer technician, or even a plumber if you have the right tool for the job, so long as you know how to pose the right question. This article is railing
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
You can do some pretty interesting stuff with this using julia's pycall library: https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
I'm no expert, but I've found it's best to use kwargs near the middle of a class hierarchy. This makes it much simpler to build the internal API - the classes near the top of the hierarchy have specific kwargs, but their s
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
They got a grant from the Sloan Foundation several months ago to fund IPython development. It was originally going to be the 0.14 release but after the grant they updated the release roadmap, so now it's 1.0. It will replace 0.13 in
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Except it's not the end, it's still updating...
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
No need to learn a new language, perhaps.
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Sadly the PGI compilers are (at least in my experience with codes I use) buggy, slow, and difficult to use. Why pay when I can get comparable performance using GNU compilers?
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
At least with the new folder based filtering they recently added to GMail, you can set it so messages apparing in any folder besides the inbox won't count toward the unread message count. This gets rid of all the non-inbox notificatio
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Although there's a very sophisticated set of bindings that makes it almost trivial to call Julia code from python and vice verse, making it possible to use matplotlib instead of waiting for a solution written in Julia. Take a look at
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Help build a better matplotlib rcparams: PlotOrNot(warm-escarpment-9042.herokuapp.com)
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They're thinking long term. If you provide cheap (free?) balloon-based internet access, you will open opportunities for people who have little access to the outside world.
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Take a look at a pull request on bitbucket. Like this one: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/pull-request/146/res... Click 'Side-by-Side Diff'. Github has a lot going for it, but bitbuc
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with net neutrality. For example, it's perfectly legal for Comcast to throttle your home cable connection.
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
There are a number of issues that I'd like to see bitbucket push on. [1], [2], [3], [4] to name a few. If they want to compete with github on features as well as pricing for private repos, they really need to address these things. [1] ht
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Right, but github only allows, well, git repositories. If they added hg support I'd have a strong reason to think about putting repositories on my github account.
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
I'm honestly not sure how large atoms can be, since there are an arbitrarily large number of high-n states in the limit where the electron is tenuously bound to the proton. I know that states with n ~ 100 are commonly observed (see Figure
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
While in this case, the microscope is apparently producing a magnified image of a hydrogen atom's orbital structure, it is possible for an atom to have a macrscopic size, although it normally only happens in deep space. It turns out that t
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
I'm a regular user of the app - it's a bit buggy but it's definitely the best looking and most usable HN reader out there. If I spot bugs in daily use should I open issues on github?
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Using natively compiled apps like that over a slow SSH connection is a painful mess.
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
Right now it's hard to do numerical analysis on large problems using Go. To fix that, I'd be really excited to see bindings for MPI or something like it. In particular, go doesn't have a concept of an Allreduce or an AllToAll communicatio
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
I just filed an issue that might be related: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/469
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
The rebase extension for hg is still a bit experimental, at least as I understand it. It will be much better once changeset evolution [1] is turned on by default in a stable release. [1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution
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As discussed in the linked article, it's mostly because of code quality but with a healthy dose of percieved threat to job security. Unfortunately the academic citation economy isn't very nurturing of community codes, so a lot of work gets
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by ngoldbaum 13y ago
As an astronomer, I hope this idea takes off. Unfortunately, judging by the reactions my colleagues have had when I've brought up this idea in the past, I don't think it's very likely.
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Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics(arxiv.org)
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Unfortunately the license terms are decidedly non-free and antithetical to the released software being used elsewhere.