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In part yes, but these symbols are not contrived aliases that merely wrap the underlying complexity. They are well defined geometrical onjects individually, can be used separately in other contexts etc. That such a frugal abstraction is pos
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In some domains differential forms are mind-mindbogglingly expressive. E.g. Maxwell's equations boil down to [1]: dF = 0, d*F = J You literally could not use fewer letters. But the corresponding visualizations are not particularly easy
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> Nor can austerity or the hangover from the financial crisis explain Britain’s malaise. The financial crisis was at least as turbulent in the United States as here. Yes it can. For the UK the financial sector was a dramatically importa
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The architecture of explaining how open source applications are architected may need a revamping itself? What might be useful is an approach of live collections that keep evolving / added to. Maybe some sort of extension of the Journal
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There cant be a "Great Logging Off". Critical interactions and services such as the medical, payment/banking systems, diverse public sector functions, the entire news industry etc. are now online and there is no visible way b
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Python has not really solved this either... For one thing it barely exists on mobile.
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Overview of the Julia-Python-R Universe(openriskmanual.org)
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A side-by-side review of the main open source ecosystems supporting the Data Science domain: Julia, Python, R, sometimes abbreviated as Jupyter.
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The bigger picture is the "democratization" of data science [1], not as an academic pursuit by white coat researchers (which was the main early use case for R) but embedded in day-to-day operations in organizations of all sizes. &
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Wonderful idea. Proof, if proof was needed that digital music (and much more in the digital domain) is still a vast unexplored universe. The equivalent physical "instrument" would be nigh impossible to build, let alone operate by
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At some point some "serious" accounts need to take these emerging new decentralized social media seriously and setup shop there. You cant claim any sort of moral integrity when you engage with your audience on platforms that treat
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Never understood the human obsession with minutely controlling the shape of plants. There is enough we control already (with bad effect). Natural forms are just fine. Morphogenesis is one of the deepest unsolved mysteries, best enjoyed with
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Even before patents there were actively ringfenced technologies by state actors (silk comes to mind). But todays supression feels almost catholic in its reach across the economy. Which is imho directly linked to digital tech being both a se
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I am not sure previous epochs and generations ever had to face this kind of active throttling of creativity and problem solving capacity. Maybe they did and its just that the context and feeling of despair is lost to us due to distance. But
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The public / non-government sector (especially in Europe) has been quite keen for decades in (linked) open data, knowledge graphs and associated technologies. Yet applications, tools and, ultimately usability, awareness and adoption ha
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> The deal also reflects a lack of other options for the Biden administration: Pentagon officials have insisted on sourcing cutting-edge semiconductors from an American company, and Intel is the only US maker of advanced processors. This
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Amazing stuff at so many levels. Would live to hear more about the motivation for using RDF/SPARQL in the technology stack as these are frequently seen as arcane and here is a very intuitive use case.
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Termux is an incredible project. Could not believe it the first time. You can even run a web server etc. One challenge is to evolve the terminal / text paradigm so that useful tinkering becomes possible/confortable on the smaller
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The ZX Spectrum computing nostalgia highlights the abyss between what could have been and the state and direction of personal computing technology anno 2024. In four decades we went from zero, to infinite possibilities and then (de-facto)
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You will need a Project Mjölnir for that, as the real ideology, moral stance and practice of our era is that competition is for losers . Or: Those who can't collude, compete.
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What might be useful for the re-decentralized web community is a detailed comparison of the ATProto, ActivityStreams/Pub and maybe Solid specifications, protocols, standards, vocabularies (or whatever exactly these blueprints actually
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I am rooting more for the htop aesthetic
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If SIMD lanes come to vastly dominate the composition of a typical computer chip (in terms, e.g., of where power is consumed) will the distinction between CPU/GPU continue to be meaningful? For decades the GPU was "special purpose
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There is something intriguing and (maybe telling) in the longevity of the terminal mode. It was invented out of pure necessity when various resources (compute, screen, network etc) were really scarce. So it is extremely information dense. N
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> the mathematics of known physics is just a tiny fraction of all the mathematics out there But the opposite is also true: the physical reality that has been explained by mathematical thinking is just a tiny fraction of all the reality o
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> "vectorized linear algebra" is at the root of most of modern Physics. the "vectorized" adjective was meant to imply implementing linear algebra in digital computers that can operate concurrently on large-dimensional
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They are now, but will they be winning in 10 (or even 3-5) years? Their shtick is a GPU on steroids. In the bigger picture its a well positioned hack that has ridden two successive speculative bubbles (crypto mining and AI) but its unclear
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Who would have thought that vectorized linear algebra will be at the center of so much financial speculation? There is a silver lining though. Even if it all goes to near-zero (most likely outcome for all VC investments anyway) the digital
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Some modules are essential additions while others are handy so as not to have to manage dependencies. Good example of the latter use case is the statistics module. There is a price to pay though: its performance is 10x slower than numpy. So
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> the new growth sectors – smartphones, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI). An analogue world is rapidly going digital, and Germany has been painfully slow to realize that There is an important silver lining in being "s

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