physicsguy

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by physicsguy 8y ago
Massively depends on what you're doing as to whether it's possible, straightforward or useful to be honest. For many people it's fine, but there are plenty of people where the time investment is not worth it for a variety of
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by physicsguy 8y ago
> Meanwhile a professional programmer has to become good at things that mathematicians and scientists don’t have to care about, like version control or the idiosyncrasies of a specific language. Really depends on what kind of mathematici
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by physicsguy 8y ago
Ha, I'm in a similar position - I'm a scientist and I work with two people who speak Slavic languages, and they miss out 'the' and 'a' everywhere, because they don't exist in that language family. I also w
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by physicsguy 8y ago
It can be quite difficult though; we had a Chinese PhD student in our research group and while his coding ability was amazing and everything 'just worked', decoding what he actually meant in many cases was very difficult.
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by physicsguy 8y ago
I'm a native (British) English speaker, and I actually can find it quite hard to communicate with non-native speakers, because they don't understand my accent. It's not particularly strong as British accents go (nothing like
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by physicsguy 8y ago
GDPR blocked, not going to read it.
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Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by physicsguy 8y ago|4 comments
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by physicsguy 8y ago
It's worth remembering the other people involved in this. Peierls and Frisch worked under Oliphant at the University of Birmingham, and they wrote the memorandum which formed a major part of the Tizard Mission to the US. This also incl
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by physicsguy 8y ago
It's great if it works, but there are many cases where you can't just take a Docker container and apply it to work in Singularity. I even found this Blog Post this morning that went into some of it. https://www.sylabs.i
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by physicsguy 8y ago
Does the average developer though? I wouldn't want to work on a developer machine without at least 8gb.
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by physicsguy 9y ago
Also, most people aren't developers, and if you don't have the paid Dev account, you can only run for something like two weeks before you have to reauthorise it from what I remember - I think Apple introduced it to make it more di
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by physicsguy 9y ago
That's really great to know!
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by physicsguy 9y ago
You can install things with pip but you have to be really careful, because Conda tries to do clever things to avoid downloading multiple copies, which is what you end up with in Virtualenvs. So, if you have two environments both using the s
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by physicsguy 9y ago
It's time! It's really irritating in the scientific programming world at the moment because we've had some dependencies take years to get to Python 3 compatibility and are they're now being all holier than thou about it
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by physicsguy 9y ago
I went to a talk by one of the materials scientists at JET a few years ago, and he stressed that in terms of that part, the biggest challenge is the neutron bombardment of the steel reactor vessel. He was saying that the biggest problem is
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by physicsguy 9y ago
My issue with Slack in our organisation (a University), is that people spawn off new teams for everything, and nobody has a paid group, because it's too expensive with our budgets, so you lose the conversations by age at 20000 messages