rscho

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1. 691.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   Racket/gui is far from having every feature under the sun like JavaFX or QT, but what it lacks in breadth it makes up in flexibility and customizability. It's seriously one of the very best cross-platform, easy to set up solutions
2. 692.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   Well yes, it's personal experience. However, for me everything from study material to situational context to interaction with peers pointed to that being the case. Be free to make what you want of it.
3. 693.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   I'm an MD and have worked on both sides of the pond. That said, I clearly have a negative bias against the US system stemming from (bad) personal experience. What I can say objectively is that US docs are educated to be hyperspecialist
4. 694.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   Impressive motivation for a hobby project! It's true that Racket makes that very simple compared to other more popular options, but still...
5. 695.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   Are you sure about that? The reason is certainly not the quality of incoming personnel, as even german docs have to repeat residency. And TBH, I'm quite convinced that the average german doc is better than the average US doc. The real
6. 696.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   J runs on Android. To see J in action, you can check out TangentStorm's channel on Twitch
7. 697.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   Given the combined cost of K licenses in banks and other large companies, I'd say they are really far from having messed up. The main goal of the company is not to promote K the language.
8. 698.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   You could at least elaborate so we could tell you why you're wrong :-D
9. 699.▲
   by rscho 5y ago

   I do statistical computing, and I very much disagree. My single-page J is much easier to read 6 mo later than my 500 loc R script.
10. 700.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    If you consider J K-like, then J. Otherwise, ngn K or Kona
11. 701.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Not at all anathema. Many array programmers are very big on code documentation. J has joxygen to generate html docs from comments and JOD which is a code dictionary system. https://analyzethedatanotthedrivel.org/the-jod-page
12. 702.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    'I am a software engineer and I think general AI is upon us but hindered by nasty doctors who want to get rich, therefore I will make every effort to believe that this paper shows that AI is better'
13. 703.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    > something really weird about the contemporary Australian culture that's seems to be permitting increasingly authoritarian governance. Netflix and Uber Eats. Long, long ago that used to be called 'panem et circenses'... O
14. 704.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Depending on the field and journal, it may or may not be the case. In medicine for example, full copyright is systematically transferred to the publisher.
15. 705.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Interesting! Can one have effect handlers in an untyped language such as scheme ?
16. 706.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Nope, there are others. Prolog, for example: https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=delcont
17. 707.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    I'm sure putting one's head in the microwave oven at the right settings would be even more efficient.
18. 708.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    I stand corrected. Although lambda calculus is apparently considered by some to be a term rewriting system, apparently. So I'm not sure the connexion is so distant after all.
19. 709.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Matthew Flatt and most of the core team are readily available through slack or the mailing list and often answer themselves, even to newbies. Being a hobbyist myself, I think this ivory tower reputation is undeserved. Few people really unde
20. 710.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Racket (CS) produces machine code. Yes, it packs the runtime along but that's certainly not your 'vanilla' interpreter. For example, it compiles a parallel GC profiled to your app along too. That's pretty hardcore, IMO!
21. 711.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    Typed Racket has been at the bleeding edge of gradual typing research since a long time now, and the 'types as macros' papers made quite a splash, I think. Idris is also built on scheme. This fits the 'pioneering' aspect
22. 712.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    And constantly improving despite the small size of the Racket community!
23. 713.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    I agree, and this translates into the real world. That's exactly what lisp has been and is used for (research in quantum computing, for a current example). Still, it's not a bad thing to try to extend the user base as it translate
24. 714.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    It's the old 'I wanna make something, gimme libs! vs 'I wanna make something completely new, gimme lisp' dichotomy. BTW the Wolfram language isn't 'a bit like lisp'. It _is_ a lisp with an alternate syntax
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    by rscho 5y ago

    I'd say that typed Racket is a perfect showcase of what is interesting about lisp. Miss something? Extend the language and you'll have your cake and eat it too! Typed Racket stems from a research interest and a bunch of great mind
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    by rscho 5y ago

    So, a language that excels when used by small teams and lone hackers... which BTW describes academic research perfectly. Of course if you have an army of programmers working in parallel on a 1M loc codebase, you won't want something to
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    by rscho 5y ago

    https://youtu.be/d-Klzumjulo
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    by rscho 5y ago

    Im a big fan of your work, Mr Might! I'm just an MD with a hobby interest in logic programming, but FWIW I think that you guys have really captured how to use current medical information, a thing that the statistical approach still can
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    by rscho 5y ago

    The video that explains it all for techies: https://youtu.be/d-Klzumjulo
30. 720.▲
    by rscho 5y ago

    I am surprised people here seem mostly interested in discussing drugs when the object of this article is the materialization of the wet dreams of all the ML fanboys out there. Reasoning over medical information that actually works! Isn&#x27