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by shele 12y ago
Regarding the first answer: What is called a "tentative definition" is of course a "declaration".
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by shele 12y ago
"The differences in lifespan are independent of the seasonal distribution of deaths" That's important of course.
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by shele 12y ago
You can in general write julia libraries in julia, wheres you often need to resort to C if writing Python libraries, e.g. https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow . Therefore the native ecosystem is growing rather fast.
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by shele 12y ago
And another generic landing page completely missing the point by omitting the "Octohub is a ... which ... for ..."-thing.
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by shele 12y ago
Here you go! https://github.com/JuliaLang/FunctionalCollections.jl There is a nice talk by Zach Allaun, of Clojure background, about persistent data structures in julia, http://www.infoq.com/presentatio
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by shele 12y ago
It is nice to see how Julia circumvents the problem by introducing a macro @printf. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19783030/in-julia-why-is-...
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by shele 12y ago
They are looking at the wrong question. Of course, productive output of a person does not depend so much on his/her EQ, but their output and their working conditions may depend a lot on the EQ of others in the group (especially the bos
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by shele 12y ago
I am still optimistic about Julia in this regard. That phantom limb pain after having used J is there, but the nice thing is that Julia is very extensible, for example hopefully soon infrastructure to cast a 2x4x4 array into a length 4 vect
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by shele 12y ago
Exactly those are the misconceptions you might clear up while talking to somebody ;-)
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by shele 12y ago
Before you frame this as a gender communication problem, I would consider actually talking to the Wikipedian you refer to in your article...
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by shele 13y ago
Julia uses machine arithmetic for integer computations. The alternatives have serious drawbacks in technical computing, see http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/faq/#why-does-jul...
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by shele 13y ago
Yes, adverbs, ranked matrix operator and some other parts of the APL/J approach I miss a bit and find them tedious to emulate/avoid.
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by shele 13y ago
"Julia was not designed by language geeks — it came from math, science, and engineering MIT students" This statement is built on a false dichotomy. And it is not really true for Julia, take the type system for example, sophisticat
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by shele 13y ago
Either a soviet spy or the regular crew in the chaos of a soviet nuclear attack: false dichotomy.
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by shele 13y ago
I'd like to keep in mind that tons of behavioural science is tainted by doing research on broken great apes in boxes.
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by shele 13y ago
Judging from the photo, that might be facilitated communication* and this raises the question, /who/ completed these 6 Coursera courses. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication
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by shele 14y ago
Believing firmly in something which is wrong often indicates a lack of reasoning.
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by shele 14y ago
Shooting people harms their family for example in a much more definitive way than shooting in the air harms bystanders.