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by peatmoss 9y ago
I really hope scientists figure out how to resurrect this species! https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/thylacine-genome...
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I suspect the exact speedup depends a lot on the workload, but the last time I supported scientists on HPC, they reported pretty substantial performance gains with ifort over gfortran as well. But then Intel has deeper pockets to pay for th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
In the scientific / numeric space it’s not unheard of to buy Intel Fortran/C compilers for performance reasons. Also, it’s been a few years since I touched IBM’s POWER hardware with AIX, but I’m pretty sure XLC and whatever the Fo
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by peatmoss 9y ago
What kind of hardware does one run this on. Are there SBCs in the wild running RISC-V? Or are people running this in emulation? I’ve been a little out of the loop in terms of what’s available. Exciting to see any movement on there being mor
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by peatmoss 9y ago
And don’t forget Free Pascal and Lazarus. I opened it up the other day on a whim and made a hello world app. Everything about the thing felt 1990s... in the best way. The IDE was clearly designed not for initial discovery by a novice, but f
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I think this is an important point. Having worked in / proximate to public policy kinds of problems, Bayesian methods have some really great properties: 1. easier interpretation of results than frequentist methods for lay people (busin
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I think regurgitation of math formulas is a terrible way to hire for most data science positions. I've seen a breakdown of data scientists into two categories: 1) People who are great at the mathematics behind the statistical tooling
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yup, revision control is the elephant in the room with Jupyter, and why I struggle to recommend it for reproducible research. R Notebooks followed the org-mode model of keeping a simple, revisionable document with code interspersed.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Since you were replying directly to me, I couldn’t downvote you. But your use of “newsflash” made it come across that you weren’t interested in a civil discussion. I frequently downvote comments that make a point in an unnecessarily hostile
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I find C syntax awkward, bloated, inconsistent, and gross compared to lisp syntax, but that’s an aesthetic preference. Beyond the personal preferences of individuals (individuals who probably started with one kind of syntax or another) ther
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by peatmoss 9y ago
And, as I wrote in another thread yesterday, it allows you to work with your text editor at a higher level of abstraction than non-lisp-coding people may have seen before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386380 ). Rat
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by peatmoss 9y ago
An an aside, the context we were given for “hed” and “lede” was that both were whimsical in-jokes / jargon among old timers, and that if we wanted to appear skookum, we should at least be aware of this tradition.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
As an undergraduate journalism major who never worked as a journalist, I also remember learning that “headline” was often shortened to “head,” but was spelled “hed.” At least according to one of my J-school profs who had come from industry.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I don’t have much cause to write Lua, but I can very much support lispy syntax. When we all started coding, we probably used a text editor and thought in terms of editing characters: backspacing, typing, maybe mousing around for bigger chan
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by peatmoss 9y ago
And if you remember to massage the arm at the injection site throughout the day, you’ll vastly reduce the residual soreness. Honestly, I get the flu shot each year not for myself, but for everyone else in society that might otherwise die if
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Wow, they did some substantial work on the git repo referenced in the talk. Being able to ‘git blame’ and see code attributable to Richie is pretty cool. There are a lot of Unix history articles out there, but this appears to be a genuinely
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Wow, was it really that late? perhaps it was. Maybe my memory is shot. I definitely remember using VLC on BeOS at one point, but it must have been a couple years later than I thought. Thanks for keeping me honest :-)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
That’s how I intended it.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
VLC is one of those programs that has really proved itself a stalwart of the FLOSS community. I feel like VLC is in a rare category of software that is great because: 1. It's existed for long enough that we know it won't just go a
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I'd love to see at least one affordable developer-focused workstation available from someone. Power9 will be cool. EDIT: And by cool, I mean have interesting performance characteristics, not be Intel arch, and seems to be one of the mo
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Seconded. Runner up was the Pixel Qi style screen that was in the OLPC, but everything about that appears to be dead. The OLPC’s screen was pretty cool in black and white and was quite usable in full sun. It also was fast in a way that epap
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Don't some new drives support encryption in hardware? Presumably that would offset any performance issues associated with disk encryption as well.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Racket has a cross-platform GUI framework that wraps the appropriate native UI elements. https://docs.racket-lang.org/framework/index.html
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I have a 3rd gen iPad that I feel like there should be a 3rd-party logic board / OS update for. There are approximately a bajillion 3rd gen iPads out there. Imagine walking into the local screen repair place, having them stick in a new
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by peatmoss 9y ago
The obvious musical selection to use in conjunction with this is “YYZ” EDIT: Okay, I'm watching / listening to Dave Holland’s “Jugglers Parade” which is punchy and whose dynamic range builds slowly. It’s pretty freaking cool. I’m
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I probably agree with the author of this piece on many things, but this article felt a whole lot like the shouting that drove me off Twitter about the same time she left. I was never the target of right-wing trolls, but I did see many peopl
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I was just thinking about a proliferation of Javascript statistical libraries popping up... only an NPM away. And I shuddered a little. And then it occurred to me that CRAN and NPM have a fair bit in common. Both have a package for anything
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I can't find much information at all about these notebooks. From what I can tell, they are Javascript only, which could make for an easier deployment story than a full Jupyter notebook server. That said, it's unclear from a quick
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I very frequently do data tasks as bash command lines and do so within an org-mode code block. So, at least with org-mode, notebook computing and data processing in the shell are not mutually exclusive. EDIT: Also I should note that noteboo
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by peatmoss 9y ago
The Lowe’s example made me go, “oh yeah, I’d use that.” Hardware stores are one area where talking to someone nominally savvy can save you heaps of time. It’s part of the reason I still go to Ace for some things. Imagine describing some pro

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