rscho

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   by rscho 4y ago

   As a clinical researcher, I wholeheartedly agree. Even worse, meta analysis is comparatively so well cited (even shitty ones) that doing anything else, such as original research, will be suboptimal since the reduced time investment allows y
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   by rscho 4y ago

   J also exposes an API to Python, allowing to use J from Python, meaning you don't have to wait: J in Jupyter is already here! https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/api/python3
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   by rscho 4y ago

   There is no lisp without s-expressions. To understand why, you should try paredit.
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   by rscho 4y ago

   Prolog is probably less of a general-purpose language, in the sense that writing things such as games are probably not a very suitable goal for it. But for any problem involving the exploration of a solution space, prolog is absolutely stel
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   by rscho 4y ago

   > There are no other homoiconic languages with amazing REPL support Prolog is pretty good.
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   by rscho 4y ago

   Oilshell is attempting new stuff, though.
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   by rscho 4y ago

   I'm a professional clinical researcher. Those 'validations' would be comical if the results, when witnessed in person, weren't so sad.
8. 428.▲
   by rscho 4y ago

   > This is entirely unsurprising and has a very simple solution: keep adding more data Nope. Won't work. Biased data made bigger results only in bias confirmation. Which is the real problem.
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   by rscho 4y ago

   Surprise, surprise. People hugely overestimate the data retrieval capabilities of healthcare systems. And if you really put clinical 'AI' systems to the test in day-to-day settings (which is in fact never done), results would be m
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    by rscho 4y ago

    > Maybe instead you mean to use the database functionality to identify problems like that in the original source data. Yes, that's exactly my use case.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    What do you mean? I don't think this process ends up with less info than the CSV file format itself. Short of doing that, cleaning very dirty data has no satisfactory solution, I think. Optional typing is a nice middle ground between u
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    by rscho 4y ago

    > wtf. who would ever want that? Each and every biostatistician on this planet. Especially those touching clinical data. Personally, I was saddened to learn that DuckDB did not include dynamically typed, or at least untyped, columns. Hap
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    by rscho 4y ago

    I do exactly the same. You import from CSV, everything ends up as a string, and then you copy the data to a STRICT table so you can understand what's really going on.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    There's J if you don't want glyphs
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Its architecture is super interesting, though. It's built along the principles of Dr Aaron Hsu's thesis, encoding trees as vectors of pointers to nodes.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Rampant privatization is not any more enticing than what you describe.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Ciao is an academic prolog system, not a JavaScript framework...
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    Playing the Game with PLT Redex(youtube.com)

    1 points by rscho 4y ago|1 comments
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    by rscho 4y ago

    This is a super nice demo Racket's PLT tooling, playing solitaire with grammar reduction rules.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Racket DSLs aren't the same as 'spinning up a new lexer' at all. Making DSLs is hard, and being a PLT expert does not make one an expert at language implementation. Those are completely different skills (see Brady's reim
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Ok, I shouldn't have said 'algorithm'. Let's restrict that to 'untyped programming language theory'.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Scheme is geared towards two things: research and teaching. It's a lingua franca for demonstrating implementations of new CS concepts in ways that members of the community understand. Being easy to implement from scratch is a must for
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    by rscho 4y ago

    I don't think typed racket uses turnstile? At least, typed racket is far older than turnstile is.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    I am surprised to hear that multiple namespaces with identical symbols is not a source of confusion for learners. IMO, in high school I would've been lost.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    I'm not a compiler expert by any means, but I would've thought the more functional nature of racket to be a plus for writing compilers. Plus, there's the nanopass framework.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    I'd argue that the brightest minds in computer science understand what makes lisp great perfectly. In the lisp tradition, they made a lisp geared towards their use case, specifically. It's called Scheme... which sports much more t
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    by rscho 4y ago

    SWI is full of features and does JSON and SQL on its own very easily.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    I used the plugin to run the Chez version of minikanren some time ago. I think it was this one: https://github.com/Syntacticlosure/chez-runner There might be more on the racket package server.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    There's actually a plugin that lets one use Chez directly from DrRacket.
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    by rscho 4y ago

    Racket (Scheme) really is a stellar language for exploring CS concepts! I have no CS education, but was able to follow just fine thanks to the simplicity of the language. I especially liked the easy pretty printing to Latex.