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by stellalo 6y ago
Also: - Working remotely adds 10s of micro-frictions (through chats and calls) every day that complicates or even break a sane flow of information, as well as focus. This is not some “technical issue” that will go away as technology improve
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by stellalo 6y ago
Python is great, but if you quickly want to play with matrices and vectors, then it’s a no-go
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by stellalo 6y ago
> OOP support is “meh” But multiple dispatch support is great!
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by stellalo 6y ago
Then it is reasonable to assume that, without such effort, covid-19 numbers would be far worse than mosquitoes
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by stellalo 6y ago
> Is this right? It's not right, indeed
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by stellalo 6y ago
I think that’s pretty much what he’s doing in the second part of the post
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by stellalo 6y ago
For a moment I started imagining what a mutable number would be like: > 3 = 5 > print 3 5 The end
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by stellalo 7y ago
> I remember her saying, “AI is an algorithm that allows machines to make autonomous decisions...” Her explanation was one of the best I came across. That’s enough for me
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by stellalo 7y ago
> The only way to use it is to build from source. However, that will likely require more than 24 hours (ba-dum-tss)
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by stellalo 7y ago
What does that have to do with anything?
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by stellalo 7y ago
The post is from May 2018, so prior to the 1.0 splash. Although Nim is mentioned in the post. I guess one simply cannot be expected to survey all there is, really...
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by stellalo 7y ago
Julia has the Unitful.jl package for handling units: https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl
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by stellalo 7y ago
It’s funny how the most empty row in the coverage table is “matrix multiplication” — only the FORTRAN implementation is there
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by stellalo 7y ago
Are CS degrees supposed to teach how to code?
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by stellalo 8y ago
Beamer is far from being the right tool for making presentations, and I’ve basically used only that for the last 12 years. LaTeX is for writing long-ish text. If what you are writing doesn’t contain sufficiently long text, then it’s hard to
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by stellalo 8y ago
When exactly have diversity and choice become problems? It’s a blessing that so many new languages are popping up. Those that have a reason to exist, will succeed, and the time spent on them will be an investment; those that will fail will
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by stellalo 8y ago
Well, there are some interesting new languages out there already: https://julialang.org/ In fact Moore’s law must have been the reason why Python is what it is today: “Who cares if it’s slow, tomorrow’s computers will be fa
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Computing Before Computers (1990)(ed-thelen.org)
40 points by stellalo 8y ago|13 comments
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by stellalo 8y ago
Well, I’d say the analogy with Arabic vs Roman numerals is a bit of a stretch. Seriously, it is just a matter of shifting by one, humanity has much bigger problems to focus on!
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by stellalo 8y ago
I haven’t, so far, encountered a single occasion in which I would need to manually flatten-deflatten indices: Julia has multidimensional arrays of any dimension N, and you can access their content in a linear fashion without any effort (sim
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by stellalo 8y ago
I love C and I was myself suspicious when I first tried Julia. I ended up being perfectly able to reason in terms of 1-based indices and right-inclusive ranges. I’m sure I’m no special kid :-)
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by stellalo 8y ago
1-based indexing is a non-issue
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by stellalo 8y ago
It looks like this HN entry, however, refers to the stable 1.0 release
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by stellalo 8y ago
As far as I know, the 1.0 release only removes deprecated features from 0.7, the previous “transition” release. So that probably didn’t require much incubation
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Iterative methods done right (life's too short to write for-loops)(lostella.github.io)
111 points by stellalo 8y ago|27 comments