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saboot
7y ago
Can anyone comment on how well developed the CUDA support is on Julia? Compared to Python? I'm using Python/Numba for my scripts.
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Yes, the last maker faire I went to had what I both loved, and hated, about it summed up in two adjacent booths. One was a young girl teaching passerbys to sew a purse together using recycled jeans and fundraising for animal rescue missions
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7y ago
I'm not sure, I didn't see Cython in the list of supported libraries. But if it's doing what you described yes that would be awesome.
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7y ago
Would be curious to see if a version of Cython could be made to work with this. Much of my data analysis is me passing numpy arrays into C functions which Cython helps a lot with. So I would be looking for a version of Cython that would con
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8y ago
It's now become a weird social welfare system for the homeless, some go around collecting large bags and drop them off at recycling areas for cash in urban areas.
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8y ago
I went through this recently with a family member, there were robots allowing specialists to review chart. There is always a hospitalist (doctor) on staff. The most appropriate way for the hospital to approach this topic is for the robot to
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8y ago
For the field of nuclear engineering applied to detecting sources of radiation.. Radiation Detection and Measurement by Knoll is our bible.
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8y ago
I believe this is supposed to happen this year, last I heard was this summer but they haven't finished the analysis yet. The data was collected back in April, petabytes of harddrives flown to a central processing location.
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8y ago
The astronomy department I worked at briefly during my undergrad underwent a similar process. The ten or so grad students separately used Matlab, Mathematica, C, IDL, and a couple of the newer members used Python. They spent some time on th
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8y ago
Several govt programs will look back at your finances about five years and go after those assets as well.
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8y ago
Typora for writing markdown files which are saved in google drive.
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8y ago
Has no one, the author or the comments, thought to ask their teenage kids how to waste time on the internet? My younger brother seems to be able to do so all day. I'm also stuck in the reddit/facebook/youtube loop but I have
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9y ago
What do you propose as an alternative? This isn't govt mandated censorship, it's a private company not wanting to become a CP sharing portal.
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9y ago
I have been assisting my younger brother in his math deficiencies. Khan Academy has made it so much easier. I'll have him watch several videos on the topic we need to cover, and then work through his assignment together. This lets me f
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9y ago
> The resentment comes because the UC system has a limited enrollment capacity with competitive admissions, and has a mission of educating residents. So when foreign students take some of those enrollment slots, local students who missed
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9y ago
Because the NFL could "easily" change the rules to minimize the effects of CTE. Easily is in quotes because it's easy except for a fear of losing money.
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9y ago
Trump just praised the AT&T announcement in front of the white house, looks to be working already!
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9y ago
> Students serve as cheap labor for tenured professors, where they produce no real new scientific understanding No evidence for this whatsoever. Maybe your graduate experience wasn't great, but this is a very hyperbolic and inaccura
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9y ago
I still remember reading about this weird thing called bitcoin on this website around then, I had most of it setup to start mining but got distracted and forgot about it. That is until it hit $100 and I figured 'well it wont get much h
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9y ago
It provides a similar environment to a Jupyter notebook. Building a program as you go and playing around in data. In fact cling provides a Jupyter kernel so you can write C++ in a Jupyter notebook as well.
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9y ago
I know in a few graduate medical labs international students are seen as a big labor plus. No family, no friends, in a foreign environment, under a lot of pressure to succeed. You can pretty much ask them to work 80+ hour weeks easily. Amer
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9y ago
Interesting, yes I'll read Catto's work. My background is in physics, that part interests me the most, I'd be happy to make a physics sandbox myself.
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9y ago
I've followed the first ~50 or so videos mainly because I'm interested in 2D game design and game physics at the basic levels (writing engines and physics). Commenting to ask if anyone has additional resources / streams /
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9y ago
Why do we need an extra person? There's already a human present, the customer. Let them submit the feedback and fix their coffee at the same time.
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9y ago
Just bought a refurbished t460 through Lenovo's outlet website for $400, it is the best laptop purchase I've made. There were several 40% off sales on their website recently. I highly recommend buying from them. It came in two day
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9y ago
I never use my main work computer (15") on flights for this very reason.
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9y ago
Take an orbital simulation with our current planet positions and velocities, change the mass of Jupiter and keep momentum the same, and see what happens! I'd predict not good things though, our solar system is somewhat chaotic / u
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9y ago
The free version of xming works for about 99% of things, the other 1% needs the updates provided by the charity ware version, or something more recent
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9y ago
There's also http://www.scholarpedia.org/ which is basically wikipedia but written by college professors and domain field experts. It goes very in depth on many topics.
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9y ago
Yes, after a few hundred years you've got a pretty good source for weapons grade plutonium
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