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by snicker7 6y ago
"Third-year medical students"
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by snicker7 6y ago
CORRECTION: I am mistaken. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html Python is a pretty poor glue language, in my experience. Calling C APIs from Python is not pleasant. This is how one might import the l
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by snicker7 6y ago
Love JuliaLang. But it definitely comes across as a language defined by its implementation. It is poorly specified relative to most popular languages. Appreciate the work by the paper's authors, though.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Competition. In a competitive and rational market, the cheapest good (of comparable quality/availability) will get 100% of the sales.
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by snicker7 6y ago
There isn't a functional difference between a 5% tariff and a 50% tariff for most goods.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Python is ~100x slower than C. There is definitely wiggle room for improvement.
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by snicker7 6y ago
A Julia user knows more about Julia than a Python user knows about C.
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by snicker7 6y ago
TeXmacs is not built on top of TeX. It is closer to a Lisp.
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by snicker7 6y ago
I've used both, and I prefer TeXmacs. Despite what the name might apply, TeXmacs is not built on top of TeX. This is a good thing. It's much less bloated (60 MB vs several GB), and compilations seem much faster. Highly extensible&
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by snicker7 6y ago
DARPA is a R&D organization, not an industrial powerhouse.
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by snicker7 6y ago
tl;dr: When an "eval" redefines a top-level function, it does so AFTER the function returns. This makes it easier for the compiler to optimize appropriately. This is called "world age", where the compiler ensures that th
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by snicker7 6y ago
The worst thing about Linux are its users.
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by snicker7 6y ago
The question of whether or not we live in a simulation is more of a theological question than a scientific one.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Probably has more to do with the cost of doing business in these countries. High taxation / regulation has a real cost.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Coconut milk + oatmeal is indeed a winning combination. Coconut milk is the only plant-like milk that comes close to dairy in function/flavor/nutrition.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Would recommend watching the "What's a Memory Allocator, Anyway?" talk from Zig contributor Benjamin Feng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWiDx_l4V0
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Introduction to Julia OpenCV Binding(docs.opencv.org)
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by snicker7 6y ago
JS on server-side can be taxing. If I don't use NodeJS, then I'd have to (1) call it from a script, eating the startup time (2) run a daemon of NodeJS workers running in parallel to my web server or (3) use an "embedded"
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by snicker7 6y ago
You should look into GNU TeXMacs [^0]. Its formulas (and document structure) are composed of S-Expressions that the user can edit directly. But it has a "TeX"-like UI (typing '\int' renders an integral symbol). Producing
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by snicker7 6y ago
Incredible. Given a (one-to-one) Julia function `f`, this package generates `~f`, the inverse of f. Clever use of automatic differentiation. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04617
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Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)(w3.org)
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by snicker7 6y ago
KaTeX is great, but I long for a system that: 1. Can be rendered server-side without a heavy runtime (ideally written in C/C++/Rust/Whatever instead of JS). 2. Has a well defined output AST, so that the output can be manipula
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by snicker7 6y ago
Legally enforced non-discrimination is a very American thing. Other developed countries have legally-enforced quotas (e.g. gendered quotas corporate boardrooms). Some in the American left realize that racial discrimination is the shortest p
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by snicker7 6y ago
Tangentially: How does one manage a monorepo based on git?
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by snicker7 6y ago
> Give me at least 5 - and in practice, more - options to choose, made so that it's nearly impossible for them to cooperate - then we can talk about freedom of choice. Wikipedia lists much more than five: https://en.wikip
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by snicker7 6y ago
Why regulate size and not behaviour? The problem isn't that a company is too big, but that it engages in behaviour that makes it hard for competitors to thrive. And, yes, they may use size a leverage for this. But breaking up the compa
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The release of Fedora 33 Beta(fedoramagazine.org)
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by snicker7 6y ago
Incrementally patching binaries is obviously very cool. But is it possible that such functionality could be added to LLVM proper instead of just Zig?
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by snicker7 6y ago
The Apple store has a monopoly on installing software on Apple devices.
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by snicker7 6y ago
LinkedIn is leaving money on the table by /not/ offering a dating service. They could use an approach similar to Facebook, wherein there is only a notification of there is mutual interest.

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