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811.
by rscho 5y ago
Because you're wrong. Do spend six months doing hobby array programming. Your view will change.
812.
by rscho 5y ago
you'll never get J/K brevity though. Because in opposition to Lisp where control flow is explicit in the syntax, most of the control flow in array languages is implicit. I love lisp too, but for some (rare) use cases it's not
813.
by rscho 5y ago
> Do you? Or is today special? Today is the usual. He does that in all threads related to array languages.
814.
by rscho 5y ago
From the J docs: https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dx005.htm nub=: (i.@# = i.~) # ] 5!:2 <'nub' +-------------------+-+-+ |+--------+-+------+|#|]| ||+--+-+-+|=|+--+-+|| | | |
815.
by rscho 5y ago
...or 10 * >: i. 3 3 FWIW
816.
by rscho 5y ago
even less verbose: (>: i. 3 3) * 10
817.
by rscho 5y ago
Then you have a different use case. Doesn't mean theoretical mathematicians are wrong for their use case. I do epidemiology, not pure maths though.
818.
by rscho 5y ago
> `1 + 1` is not an addition of two scalars, but instead of two arrays of length 1 I think that's true of (Dyalog) APL, but not of J [1]. APL follows the nested array model (that you describe), while J follows the flat array model t
819.
by rscho 5y ago
it's extremely readable when used to it, though. I use J for exploratory data analysis. It's really, really good at that kind of thing.
820.
by rscho 5y ago
Traditional array languages (APL,J) are not amenable to static compilation due to other dynamic issues, though. I think Dyalog APL is experimenting with a bytecode interpreter, but no JITs in sight either (that I know of). The very dynamic
821.
by rscho 5y ago
I think the goal in bringing in a C++ programmer was to provide an outsider view, but no, no Fortran guy. I don't think Fortran is an array language in that arrays are not the only datastructures in Fortran, though?
822.
by rscho 5y ago
It's good. They've got representatives of all the major array language communities among the hosts (APL, J, K/Q) plus a C++ guy.
823.
by rscho 5y ago
Rangers, lead the way!
824.
by rscho 5y ago
Most diabetics could also have been cured if they had optimized for all that before being too advanced. Doesn't seem to deter people from preferring pills and insulin instead. Morality: the easy path is far more bankable than the logic
825.
by rscho 5y ago
This comment section is really funny, because it's really HN incarnate. A bunch of people with enough hubris to want to live forever and implicitly think they can make the world more interesting by staying around a few centuries.
826.
by rscho 5y ago
> Maybe there was something to the practice of leeching Yes. Hirudine.
827.
by rscho 5y ago
For anyone with experience in clinical research, it very literally means: "we don't know what we're doing".
828.
by rscho 5y ago
We used to cure many ills with mercury, though. But now, we left the natural solutions behind and use only chemicals.
829.
by rscho 5y ago
You can use any Racket lib, with the caveat that importing from an untyped lib requires the user to state the type.
830.
by rscho 5y ago
Hey, you're improving! You actually modified your spiel instead of only copy/pasting the last iteration of your smear campaign like last time. Way to go :D PS : what happened to the "you can't make a web app in Racket&qu
831.
by rscho 5y ago
We somewhat agree. But working hard is much easier when you have strong support. And many pieces do fall off from the sky for a lot of people.
832.
by rscho 5y ago
Your medical degree is largely dependent on your family's wealth, whether you have family in the medical field and also, working hard. Trust me, I'm a doctor.
833.
by rscho 5y ago
For GPs, it may be true. I admit I was speaking from the POV of a specialist.
834.
by rscho 5y ago
The question is not "when do you leave school?" it's actually "when are you employable as an independent practitioner?". In my personal experience, it's _much_ easier to get an attending/private practice p
835.
by rscho 5y ago
Well, I can answer that very clearly from personal experience: you are wrong. Medical education is much shorter in the US compared to most western countries. You have to understand that in medicine, school years are not all there is to it.
836.
by rscho 5y ago
I'm european, never set foot in a us or canadian medical school but worked in Boston. So no, it's not as set in stone as you think it is.
837.
by rscho 5y ago
> For example, the US has extremely high standards restricting who can practice medicine compared to the rest of world Rest of the world, yes. Rest of the developed world, not at all. The major difference is that becoming a doc in the US
838.
by rscho 5y ago
> I'm surprised he only took a sample. The lesion was likely too big to comfortably remove in-office.
839.
by rscho 5y ago
Statistically speaking, your individual story says next to nothing about what we should do regarding screening. And screening strategies are all about statistical analysis.
840.
by rscho 5y ago
I'll go on a limb assuming you don't have children yet.

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