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   by p4ul 3y ago

   This looks super cool; thanks so much for sharing! I'm probably an outlier, but when I saw this name I thought of the eating disorder [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   I would modify this slightly. We do experiment with humans; we just cannot do _certain kinds_ of experiments with humans because of ethical considerations. We constantly do clinic trials, which are essentially experiments with a high degree
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   I am really curious about this, too! From time to time I'll switch to using a more full-featured IDE for a while, but I always come back to Vim!
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   Slurm is absolutely ubiquitous in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. I believe its only similar competitors in the HPC space are the SGE [1] and Torque/PBS [2] resource schedulers. I'm not sure of the exact numbers, b
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   Thank you so much for sharing this! It's definitely an interesting and valuable perspective.
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   Oh, yes, I was aware that R (and its predecessor S) have a native dataframe object in the language. It seemed that gmfawcett was indicating that there was a dataframe library in _Python_ that existed prior to Pandas. I was curious what that
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   Same! And it's been an absolute delight!
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   Oh, and another important difference is memory layout. The dataframe implementations mostly (or all) use column-major format. Whereas most conventional SQL implementations use row-major format, I believe.
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   by p4ul 3y ago

   The way that I've heard the story, S was short for "statistics", and R was chosen because the authors were _R_obert [Gentleman] and _R_oss [Ihaka]. Statisticians are funny!
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I'm worried it's going to get grizzly.
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    That's interesting! I didn't realize there had been prior dataframe libraries in Python! Out of curiosity, what was/were the previous libraries?
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    Oh, I'm not sure. I'd say it's bear-ly polarizing. I'm so sorry.
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    Yes, that's totally fair; dataframes are more flexible in that sense.
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    Yep! Unless I'm mistaken, R (and its predecessor S) seems to have been the first to introduce the concept of a dataframe. One could also argue that dataframes are basically in-memory database tables. And in that case, S and SQL probabl
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I'm not sure if you're in this field specifically, but since you mentioned it I'll ask. Is it your impression that fintech and HFT shops would possibly start to transition to Rust? I've always heard that they're cur
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    "Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback." --Dutch proverb
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    This is my impression, too! The door is open for other async runtimes, but for the majority of us, Tokio is the solution. And that's been just fine for me!
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I completely agree! It would be hard to overstate the power of PostGIS! For anyone working with GIS data, it's absolutely worth investigating what PostGIS provides and the ease of integration to your existing application!
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    This is exactly right! I believe C's popularity grew so quickly because of its correlation with the popularity of Unix and its descendants. And yes, Sun pushing Java very hard certainly grew its adoption. JavaScript is a really interes
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    That's good to know; thank you! I had exactly the same reaction as junon!
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I'm generally in agreement with all your points, but I would propose that it's not _only_ the hardware that is serving as NVIDIA's moat. They have poured an enormous amount of time and effort into CUDA and its related librari
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I’m strongly inclined to agree with this. The first screening layer of many HR departments is completely automated.
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    Yes! Josh's blog posts are indeed excellent! And I definitely think that his courses have the same degree of thoughtfulness and insight.
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I know you asked specifically about books, but I can’t help but recommend the two online courses that Josh Comeau makes available. I have found both the “CSS for JavaScript Developers” and the “Joy of React” courses to be absolutely phenome
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I'm a big fan of "D3 for the Impatient". It's rather brief, but still manages to cover a huge number of topics. I also appreciate its style of gradually building up an intuition for how D3 works. I always recommend this
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I had not yet heard of them! Thank you!
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    Yes, CUDA is their moat. And it's a very deep moat, filled with sharks, alligators, and mines. It will take a truly massive effort to unseat CUDA and NVIDIA as the dominant software/hardware tools for deep learning. I'm curio
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    by p4ul 3y ago

    I have personally found Josh Comeau's "Joy of React" course to be absolutely exceptional!!
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    by p4ul 4y ago

    Thank you for this!
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    by p4ul 4y ago

    Me too! I'm only half-way through, but I think this book is absolutely phenomenal!! I recommend it to anyone interested in Rust—particularly for folks who do backend web.