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by silentvoice 12y ago
One of the most bizarre errors I've seen undergraduates make is in induction proofs. I saw it so many times that I decided a TA must have been telling them to do this. They would always show the base case correctly. Then they assume it
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by silentvoice 12y ago
I was a presenter. I wasn't entirely sure what I expected from the conference when I submitted my talk, but I was really impressed with the breadth of topics as well as some early commercial adopters of Julia. Props to the creators and
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by silentvoice 12y ago
They are specifically targeting CFD applications, and so the cited FLOPs count might be misleading (but I don't know enough about optical computing to say for sure) I will comment on why I think this is so. If this tool can perform ver
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by silentvoice 12y ago
I actually believe this is the preferable approach for performance portability reasons. It's easier to reason about cache /vectorization performance across architectures and compilers when dealing with a single pointer and calcula
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by silentvoice 12y ago
Will it work sanely with Make, handle modular documents better than TeX, etc? The biggest frustration with me and TeX isn't the quality of its output or its extendability, it's simply difficult for me to work it into a reproducibl
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by silentvoice 12y ago
I've had this discussion before and it usually boils down to someone having a non-traditional view of the 12 steps. I read them at face value: Admitting one has no control over an addiction and relying on a higher power to address it i
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by silentvoice 12y ago
The language of AA and other programs like them have failure as a built-in premise of attendance. Just by insisting on abstinence assumes that failure is the only possible outcome of non-abstinence, however moderated or controlled that non-
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by silentvoice 12y ago
I think I have a unique perspective on this, since I have both a strong CS training as well as a strong scientific computing training. I can look at code both from the perspective of producing useful scientific results as well as from the p
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by silentvoice 13y ago
Analysis, but of course have to know my algebra for what I do. I definitely prefer analysis. Don't eat corn, use vim, program mainly with Haskell and C. It's hard to describe the differences between algebraists and analysts. For e
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by silentvoice 13y ago
This is a very interesting project and it has actually set me on an interesting path. In scientific computation one blends mathematics and computation. The math is highly advanced, and it will tell you important things about your resulting
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by silentvoice 13y ago
*Lastly, some tone stuff: Function pointers have nothing to do with functional programming. And why hate on a language you haven't studied? And why does there have to be a TLDR version of a mind-expanding experience like learning a new