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by snicker7 5y ago
Book recommendation lists are about inflating one's ego. I would look uncultured if I recommended the books I actually enjoy and derive value from (or, more poignantly, actually read). I /highly/ recommend SICP as a first int
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The same land is used to make human food. We get the grains, they get the hay.
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Cattle mostly eat what humans can’t digest — grasses, not grains. That energy would go to “waste” otherwise. And the water consumption stats often include rain water (“green water”).
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This is really cool. Being able to convert Pluto notebooks into a “book” is super useful. One feature I think will be useful would be the ability to include other notebooks, and still maintain reactivity. It would make “how to build an X” t
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by snicker7 5y ago
Guix configuration is in Lisp, a well-established language (60 years and still strong). Moreover, Guix package code is written in a clear, declarative style. Nix package definitions, on the other hand, typically embed shell scripts in them.
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If the COLA adjustments are granular enough (e.g. zip code), I could see this as a civil rights violation. They'd be punishing employees who live in black and latin communities.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Work for the government. I used to work on software that uses AI to catch financial crimes. Super satisfying, but pays a lot less than private sector (which is why I left).
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As for array index checking, Julia gets it right. It uses a pair of macros (@boundscheck and @inbounds), which empowers the user elide bounds checking. Moreover, it is extensible to beyond just arrays. I’ve used these macros in my own hand-
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Hubble is trying real hard now that JWT stole the spotlight.
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The pandemic will never be over.
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Programming is the easy part. It’s the collaboration and communication that get you. Working part time means a higher ratio of your time is spent communicating and syncing up rather than doing “actual work”.
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English isn’t abelian.
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I don’t see the point of this post. Julia is a compiled language, Python is interpreted. Comparing them on CPU-intensive algos is unfair.
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The problem with these social experiments is that these payments are not guaranteed for life. Being out of work is bad for your career, but if you receive passive income for rest of your life, I think that would change the calculus.
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If Netflix increases their price, than so can their competitors. And many people are now subscribed to multiple services instead of just one. In practice, this is not a 2X increase in 10 years — it is 5X.
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Julia matrices are laid out as column-major (like Fortan, unlike C). So, it is better to get into the habit of thinking of a matrix more as a vector of columns than a vector of rows.
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by snicker7 5y ago
There a lot of cases in scientific computing where using "glue code" of any sort can kill performance. You miss compile-time optimizations that can perform whole-program analysis. As a result, despite Julia being very FFI-friendly
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by snicker7 5y ago
Not even. ROCm does not support any current-generation enterprise cards. Compare this to Nvidia or even Intel where I can run GPGPU API's (CUDA, oneAPI) on low-end, consumer-grade hardware. The problem, ultimately, is that AMD does not
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by snicker7 5y ago
Mathematicans read very slowly relative to, say, computer programmers. A page can easily take an hour or more. Bad notation (e.g. variable names) can interrupt one's flow.
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by snicker7 5y ago
AMD consumer cards are unusable for GPGPU. Utter garbage. It’s not just mining. I would not have bought them if it weren’t for their open source driver. I hope Intel Arc fares better.
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How does running --tune affect substitutes?
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Reasons to Try Guix in 2022 [video](youtube.com)
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Things moved fast in China (rather Shrnzhen) due to a period of ultra-liberal economics that Xi is now dismantling.
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Mentioned paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14714 Abstract: This thesis proposes an advanced, generic and high-level code rewriting and analysis system in the Julia programming language, providing applied equality satu
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Writing system software in Rust is an awful choice. Use Julia instead. /s
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Time is a number. At least, it makes sense to subtract them (I guess you can say that time is a one dimensional affine space).
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by snicker7 5y ago
Doesn't 700 requests per second for such a trivial service seem kinda slow?
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China is not a rich country per capita (on par with LATAM), but it’s massive size is what attracts businesses.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Even though this posts thesis is “trade offs”, it doesn’t really talk about any technical advantages that the Python’s AD ecosystem (Tensorflow, PyTorch, JAX) has over Julia’s (Zygote.jl, Diffractor.jl).
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“Fix-it Fridays” are a great idea, and something that should be adopted beyond remote teams.

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