snicker7

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571.
by snicker7 6y ago
If you are planning on majoring in math (or related), why not get a head start and get some textbooks corresponding to actual courses you would like to take at the college/university you are planning/hoping to attend?
572.
by snicker7 6y ago
Publishers don't care about citations nearly as much as squeezing every last penny from taxpayers that they can (via publically funded research / libraries).
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by snicker7 6y ago
Not in JP Morgan, apparently. As mentioned in the post, the code was barely touched since 2006. The rewrite was needed presumably so that the code could be better maintained (or hot patched, if the emergency arrived). And there was, presuma
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GNU Guix: Reproducible research articles, from source code to PDF(hpc.guix.info)
6 points by snicker7 6y ago|0 comments
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XDG Base Directory Specification(specifications.freedesktop.org)
10 points by snicker7 6y ago|2 comments
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Mjolnir.jl – Julia Code Tracing(github.com)
1 points by snicker7 6y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 6y ago
My two cents: Ubuntu Mono is the only monospaced font I know that looks good for prose/code. I like to mix code and prose (in web and in Emacs org mode), and I prefer using the same font.
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Ask HN: Favorite Monospace Font?
7 points by snicker7 6y ago|17 comments
579.
by snicker7 6y ago
tl;dr: Engineers prefer a "positive" work environment over competitive salaries. Couldn't disagree more. Pay me.
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by snicker7 6y ago
While those numbers are good, TimescaleDB does not even attempt to compete with the performance of purpose-built time series DBs (e.g. shakti, clickhouse). Time series DBs (and OLAP dbs in general) have very different trade-offs/needs
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by snicker7 6y ago
Minimizing allocations (and deallocations) and optimizing memory layout are just things you have to do for HPC in any language. Though I think that it is easier in Julia than in C/Fortran.
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by snicker7 6y ago
The real performance win seems to be reducing the number of allocations (2 vs. 30 thousand).
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by snicker7 6y ago
Not true. BitKeeper, which git was modeled after, which used the "master" and "slave" branch terminology.
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by snicker7 6y ago
In grad school, I used "Stochastic Calculus for Mathematical Finance II" by Shreve. Its pretty rigorous/technical (don't bother with volume I, imo). I don't know of any decent books on estimating parameters for SDE&
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by snicker7 6y ago
John Baez's blogs (Azimuth, This Weeks Finds) are pretty accessible.
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by snicker7 6y ago
"Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke" by Vladimir Arnold (would literally recommend any of his books).
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by snicker7 6y ago
Some math topics I like to read about / play with: - Measure theory / lebesque/daniell integration / stochastic calculus -- super useful but very beautiful. I have a background in mathematical finance. - Combinatorial t
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by snicker7 6y ago
JuliaCon 2019 had some amazing talks [0]. Some highlights: - The Unreasonable Dispatch of Multiple Dispatch (Stefan Karpinski) - Gen: A General-Purpose Programming System - Geometric Algebra using Grassman.jl [0]: https://www.you
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Bootstrappable Builds(bootstrappable.org)
2 points by snicker7 6y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 6y ago
I would love a faithful replication of the BeOS/Haiku desktop on Linux.
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SciML Ecosystem Update: Auto-Parallelism and Component-Based Modeling(sciml.ai)
1 points by snicker7 6y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 6y ago
Low supply for housing increases prices, which is what landlords and real estate investors want.
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Ask HN: Makefile for Command Runner?
4 points by snicker7 6y ago|5 comments
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by snicker7 6y ago
The main difference is the introduction of qsql (SQL-ish statements can be treated as expressions) and some utility functions that are defined in K. QSQL is mostly for business analyst folks, and is just syntax sugar over the K-native `?` a
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Guix-HPC: Faster relocatable packs with Fakechroot(hpc.guix.info)
1 points by snicker7 6y ago|0 comments
596.
by snicker7 6y ago
Get enough sleep.
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by snicker7 6y ago
I wonder if it might be possible for OS's to provide a fast, asynchronous way of deallocating memory.
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by snicker7 6y ago
If you remove the Expr, you get something that kind of looks like Lisp.
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by snicker7 6y ago
This is sort of like how I develop using Jupyter notebooks. Write code in the notebook until I get a function / component correct. Copy it into a module. Restart the kernel and import the module. Rinse and repeat.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Not being allowed to use pointers means not having control of memory layout.

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