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by nur0n 8y ago
I hadn't seen these cartoons before. I had a good laugh :) More seriously: there are very limited cases where indexing explicitly into an array using literals is The Right Thing to do. It's almost always better to use `map(fn, xs)
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by nur0n 8y ago
Julia core devs are aware that Julia does not exist in a vacuum. It is easy to wrap existing C, C++, Fortran, and Python libraries for use in Julia. Julia has such good performance and flexibility that it will not surprise me if the most im
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by nur0n 8y ago
I believe you are the one lacking context. I'll assume your are not being intentionally malicious and are just naive. Abuse is almost certainly occurs in the presence of power structures with severe disparity. Children are being placed
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by nur0n 8y ago
I have noticed this as well. Insights don't come out of nowhere (although they often appear to). In my experience, they are the result of focus and effort over a period of time.
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by nur0n 8y ago
A good review of the changes between 0.6 and 0.7/1.0 is here: https://white.ucc.asn.au/2018/06/01/Julia-Favourite-New-Thin...
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by nur0n 8y ago
`aurman` is a (unofficial?) package manager for Arch Linux. The standard package manager is called `pacman`. Arch User Repository(AUR) is (IIRC) a repository of uncurated packages compatible with Arch. To put it simply: he is implying that
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by nur0n 8y ago
Yes. I don't do any scientific computing but I still really like Julia. The speed is there if you need it, but what attracts me more is how "ergonomic" the language is. To put it differently: Julia makes it really easy for me
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by nur0n 8y ago
Based on historical data, how accurate would it be to say that a recession happens every 7-10 years? What percent of recessions(for some definition of recession) follow this pattern? Are there different patterns for different kinds of econo
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by nur0n 8y ago
I read through parts of this book a few months back. I also did not like using that parser because I wanted to keep external dependencies to a minimum. Writing a parser for s-expressions turned out to be relatively simple. You can check out
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by nur0n 8y ago
Reminds me of: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-jefferson...
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by nur0n 8y ago
Thank you! I was not looking for anything in particular. Julia's design is everything I've been craving from a language; good performance seemed too good to be true. Due to never having worked on large systems, my judgement is of
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by nur0n 8y ago
I'm strongly considering Julia as an alternative for C/C++. A few questions if you don't mind: * How does Julia's GC play into the performance characteristics of these systems? * What tools does Julia offer for fine-grai
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by nur0n 8y ago
It seems that work has already started: https://github.com/martanne/vis .
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by nur0n 8y ago
Perl 5 and Perl 6 are two different beasts. Perl 5 is closer in spirit to Awk.
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by nur0n 8y ago
readme says "an unholy union of POSIX Shell and Common Lisp"
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by nur0n 8y ago
Honest question: does 'N' usually exclude the control group? Total human participants was 18, 6 for the control group. I agree that N is too small to warrant such hubbub.
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by nur0n 8y ago
Not sure why anyone would suggest WhatsApp(or any FB tech) as a method of private communication. I'd say encrypting raw text is perfectly fine in situations where secure communication is critical.
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by nur0n 8y ago
Are people brilliant because they don't care or do they not care because they are brilliant? Seems to be a little of both...
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by nur0n 8y ago
Also see: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences , specifically the Indian cobras. Even with good intentions, predicting outcomes is difficult. When you donate to a charity(or any organization), you a
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by nur0n 8y ago
This! The primary benefit of this book is in learning to understand recursion. Lisp just happens to be a good environment for naturally expressing recursion.
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by nur0n 8y ago
Thank you. The most value I get from these kinds of books is to become aware of important concepts so that I can actively work on improving them. In other words: what I seek from these books is the mental framework that experienced develope
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by nur0n 8y ago
Its interesting that I have developed my own model that closely resembles this (although it is not as complete). Its annoying that there is so much good information out there(like your article), but its largely inaccessible if you aren&#x27
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by nur0n 9y ago
Not sure I follow; I'm pretty sure her net worth is obliterated by now
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by nur0n 9y ago
I think the problem is one of breadth v depth. If you specialize too much, then its probable that you will fail to reuse knowledge from different fields. If you focus on breadth too much, then you will not have enough deep knowledge to buil
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by nur0n 9y ago
The main practical takeaway is to prefer iterators over pre-generated arrays. Also, TIL according to the C standard, 'main' is not a reserved identifier! ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34764796/why-
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by nur0n 9y ago
I understand hacking to be the opposite: understanding a system so deeply that you can invoke unintended behavior.
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by nur0n 9y ago
I hope this is an exercise in playing devil's advocate and not true naivety. Do you really think telcos care about these issues? They are a business and not a socialist government. Other comments have stated their goal clearly: increas
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by nur0n 9y ago
I feel like this issue needs more clarification. Say you have complete disbelief in free will. Without free will, you just carry out a path which is already predetermined. In other words, you just carry out your destiny. It can be the case
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by nur0n 9y ago
In addition to the limitations stated by sibling response, you would also need to solve the problem of image classification before you could start on real world footage; the ai in the paper was given the videogame sprites in addition to the
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by nur0n 9y ago
I think depends on the project, no? You first specify your dependencies, then provide a way to use the dependencies to build the end project. If you don't have to specify the dependencies or the build process to the user, then you can

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