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by sgillen 8y ago
Looking at China and India, I forget how big the US actually is compared to an average country. Same goes for our abundant natural resources which we don’t really talk about much (in the media at least).
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by sgillen 8y ago
I have not experienced much mangeling, but the newest CE edition still doesn't do notebooks very well IMO. to the point where I use jupyter-lab for my notebooks/prototypes and pycahrm for packages.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I'm def getting Apple vibes too, less sales but more profits, they took in 65% of the revenue in the EV category according to the article.
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by sgillen 8y ago
This one is a little silly, but I don't like when people use "exponentially" to mean just really big. Like when someone says version 2.0 is exponentially better than version 1.0. I realize I'm being pedantic here but for
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by sgillen 8y ago
Sure, I guess my question is WHY do it this way, which (to me) coming from C++/python seems pretty foreign. I was hoping one of the contributors to the language might be lurking here and offer some insight. I found a nice discussion ab
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by sgillen 8y ago
I’ve been really excited about Julia for awhile now. Does anyone here happen to know why the decision was made to not allow “normal” classes in Julia? I know you can define your own types to get some of the functionality but sometimes in nu
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by sgillen 8y ago
I feel like I haven’t really dealt with this out of order execution madness this guy and some others are talking about here, usually I end up with like 2-5 big cells that I use, typically just a “init everything cell” a “run simulation&#x2F
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by sgillen 8y ago
Looks like pycharm is starting to support Jupyter notebooks, although not very well right now (I couldn’t get it it to work).
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by sgillen 8y ago
> This helps you avoid well-known stupid mistakes, and concentrate your energies on all-new stupid mistakes. I really like this, basically sums up my PhD experience so far.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Excellent, one of my major gripes with arduino is that you couldn’t upload code remotely on a headless machine. This is a very useful for embedded systems in hard to reach or sealed off places.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Sorry, are you saying knowing python/C++ makes OP a niche developer? I was under the impression these were very common languages at the big-N? Or is it something else about their background? Not trying to correct you, I'm really j
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Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (2014)(randomascii.wordpress.com)
175 points by sgillen 8y ago|39 comments
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by sgillen 8y ago
I mean sure Pony, but as a programmer this result would surprise me quite a lot, which I tend to view as a bad thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen... However: > One of developers of P
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by sgillen 8y ago
yes you are right we should be careful with our language here. it is disabled by default in the sense that the OEM would have to enable it in order for the exploit to be effective. However since it appears that sometimes the OEMs have been
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by sgillen 8y ago
> While the backdoor should require kernel level access to activate, it has been observed to be enabled by default on some systems, allowing any unprivileged code to modify the kernel. According to the github page README
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by sgillen 8y ago
True I'm sure spy agencies around the world have a whole database of known (to them) exploits like this. So might have even commanded or lobbied that these features be put in in the first place.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Looks like this feature has to at least be enabled somewhere for it to work (it just so happens that for some systems it is enabled by default). If that really is the case it might be possible to disable the system, as long as only somethin
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by sgillen 8y ago
This seems like it could be great for automatically generating audio books. Personally I would one day like to have a program that can read arbitrary text to me in a more or less human way, that would allow me to read papers for work while
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by sgillen 8y ago
Yes but being a human they already have a pretty good idea what might be funny for the audience they want to perfmorm for. So basically I think a computer would need a lot more trial and error than the human does, and I’m not sure a good wa
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by sgillen 8y ago
> I think it's already in the "everybody knows" category I’m sure most people have a pretty good idea exercise can help with mental health. I think the next thing that needs to happen is a broader awareness of just how eff
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by sgillen 8y ago
Yeah I am trying to take something optimistic away from this. Im just hoping that at least some sizable minority of the voting populace starts to see climate change as the cause for some of their problems and start voting accordinongly. I t
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by sgillen 8y ago
Maybe, in democratic countries at least the people in charge might feel some more pressure to do something (or make it look they are doing something etc)
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by sgillen 8y ago
I’ve always thought it was just a fad (one that I like though) I never thought about it in terms of a response to increased screen time but that is very possible.
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by sgillen 8y ago
It’s unfortunate that we’ve let things get this bad. Maybe now that people are seeing some real effects that they can point to more action will be taken.
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Tensor Flow 1.10 Released(github.com)
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Inner workings of input and output in IPython(jakevdp.github.io)
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by sgillen 8y ago
Python has so much inertia at this point that it seems unlikely to happen in the near future. Probably not quite to the scale as C/C++ vs rust for systems programming, but a similar idea. Rust has all these great features but most peop
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The continued existence of the emacs ipython notebook(blog.jupyter.org)
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by sgillen 8y ago
I almost forgot Apple was still working on cars.. >As for FaceTime, Apple hopes it can help drivers communicate visually while driving. Does this seem like it could be a bad idea to anyone else? usually the whole point of facetime is tha
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think we’ll start seeing a lot more formal verification or at least well tested software. Especially with the rise of drones, robotics, self driving cars etc making bugs much more harmful/deadly in a lot of places. I think for some o

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