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by raymondh 6y ago
This is pretty cool. Makes me nostalgic for QuickC.
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by raymondh 6y ago
For those enticed by this article, I recommend the wonderful science fiction book, "Semiosis" by Sue Burke. Plant wars, competition, and cooperation are central to the plot.
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Stein's Paradox in Statistics [pdf](statweb.stanford.edu)
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I suspect that Python's use in education would be an early casualty if the interactive REPL were removed.
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What approach are you using to efficiently store and look up non-hashable function arguments?
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by raymondh 6y ago
Well, that's pretty cool.
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by raymondh 6y ago
This seems like an anti-pattern to me.
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by raymondh 7y ago
This 37 minute Pycon video covers the essential details of how Python dictionaries are implemented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg&t=3s
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by raymondh 7y ago
The book "Dynamic Hedging" stands apart from the others with none of the typical NNT personality. Instead, it reads more like a math book with amazing theorems such as predicting the exact order that various kinds of hedgers will
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Python follows convention the first convention, just as Dijkstra recommends. Mostly this worked-out well except for the case of descending sequences. With half-open intervals, that case proved to be cryptic and error-prone, so we added reve
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by raymondh 7y ago
FWIW, Rust didn't become feature stable until mid-2015. So even there, the world was changing.
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This criticism of the dev team seems naïve, "It should not have taken 11 years to get to where we are today." Core developers can make tooling available, but they can't control adoption. That is a user decision. Users swit
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IIRC, common law also presumes that snail mail is robust. The idea is that it is common for someone to deny receiving a mailed notification but that it is uncommon for mail to actually be lost. So, it makes sense to presume that the mail w
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by raymondh 7y ago
Confounding variable for prayer studies: God knows who is in each group and can control the outcome of the study.
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by raymondh 7y ago
Life experience can provide successively better approximations of the truth. Some of listed falsehoods are reasonable first approximations.
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by raymondh 7y ago
This would be a big help. The process is simple. Download the beta, try-out the features, and let us know how they work out in real world code -- is it learnable or prone to misunderstanding, are the docs intelligible, does it solve the p
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by raymondh 7y ago
That isn't practical. The PEP process is already exhausting and we aim to solicit feedback before the PEP is decided. By the time a beta is out, we're already in feature freeze and it is somewhat late in the game.
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by raymondh 7y ago
There is no ambiguity. This example is invalid syntax.
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From my point of view, the Python release cycle presents several challenges in terms of two-way communication with users. Ideally, we want people to download the beta releases and give feedback on their real world experience with new featur
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by raymondh 7y ago
Earlier post: https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1131103570856632321
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Summary: Motherboard interviewed an attendee at the Interactive Theorem Proving conference who says that he thinks Interactive Theorem Proving is important. Also, professors specializing in proof theory think their tooling may become impo
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by raymondh 7y ago
If health care cost continue growing faster than inflation, we will see many more articles like this.
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Fighting API Ambiguity(twitter.com)
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by raymondh 7y ago
For those interested in a more thoughtful take on this subject, I highly recommend the short book, "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" by David Bayles and Arthur Morey. Favorite quote, "Whe
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by raymondh 7y ago
It would be fun to try it with full-res TIFF Hubble images: http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/ The open source plugin for the image analysis algorithm with is here: https://github.com&
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by raymondh 7y ago
See also: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.06631.pdf
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by raymondh 7y ago
I agree this a pretty choice.
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I think Ned strikes the right balance, showing risks associated with mock objects without condemning them outright. There is no doubt that people sometimes go overboard with mocking and there is no doubt that there are situations where it
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by raymondh 7y ago
Python core developer Lisa Roach has a nice how-to video on exactly this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1UsGZV8fQ
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by raymondh 7y ago
Learning a new topic also entails learning its terminology. As a newbie to the subject, I'm amused by chapter headings like "Abstract Simplicial Complex" that seem like an oxymoron :-)

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