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721.
by usgroup 7y ago
I very much like that people like Tao are famous. It’s relatively good for the intellectual spirit and hopefully it inspires others. However this fixation with his “extraordinary capacity”, scores, medals and accolades; I wish we could skip
722.
by usgroup 7y ago
Use c_store fdw to store your data in columns and marvel at the 10x performance improvement without indexes.
723.
by usgroup 7y ago
It’d be crazy to rely on something like this. I think you’d want the analogue to be much more robust if you’re gonna rely on it keeping your child alive...
724.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think Firefox is adding it as a standard in the next version.
725.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think the implication is just that Whatsapp has to hand over encrypted messages ... I'd imagine if the police are then in control of the target mobile they can decrypt those messages. Tbh, if my understanding is correct, I'm not
726.
by usgroup 7y ago
Bayesian stats.
727.
by usgroup 7y ago
I entirely agree... in fact it applies to me more with maths than it does with tech.
728.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think devs often make bad decision makers because in some sense tech is often an addiction rather than a pragmatic choice. The cycle of picking a tech, jumping ship to it, religiously evangelising it, riding the wave and then jumping ship
729.
by usgroup 7y ago
I’m a Bayesian flavoured, and the “problem” IMO is that model driven statistics are really hard and beyond most scientists (people generally tbh). If we required scientists to be good statisticians there’d be far fewer scientists.
730.
by usgroup 7y ago
I've always used many languages, but I tried clojure for data processing stuff. I moved away from it because the number of libraries was tiny; I had to write my own libraries for doing basic SQLy things. Some hard things were easy in C
731.
by usgroup 7y ago
Unfortunately you probably are getting dumber, look to folks who had the same trajectory as you but are further ahead for confirmation. If your work doesn’t get more interesting you’ll adapt to fight the boredom by becoming dumber. You have
732.
by usgroup 7y ago
Appreciated :)
733.
by usgroup 7y ago
Yeah basically. As a ex Clojure user, I’d agree. It’s not shallow and if one finds it shallow then one can write their own macro to be less shallow.
734.
by usgroup 7y ago
I wrote clojure for a while. Forward chaining basically facilitates pipe based programming. When it fits it’s great, but when it doesn’t try code is ugly. Some computations just want to be imperative. IMO, if you can avoid developing progra
735.
by usgroup 7y ago
If you’re saying you write code without knowing what you’re writing then yes you should have a mental model. It’s a lot easier to build in your head than to write code. You might go through a dozen ways of doing something in your mind which
736.
by usgroup 7y ago
I'm not brimming with ideas of where this would be a good fit tbh. Is anyone using it or considering it for anything?
737.
by usgroup 7y ago
Wait, doesn’t everyone know there 1.6 times tables ?
738.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think a question asking app that helps you build a reliable schedule would be useful . Eg what are you doing ? When do you normally do it ? Are you doing X now? Should you be? Etc
739.
by usgroup 7y ago
I'd say what mathematicians do is "think". We call the sort of thinking mathematicians do "mathematics". I get through quite a bit of grad stats in any given week and I'd say that what I'm not doing readin
740.
by usgroup 7y ago
I feel the post is misguided. Pick any career out there and you'll find that in a complex enough cranny of it there is mathematics. That doesn't mean that plumbing IS doing mathematics, or fixing the washing machine IS doing physi
741.
by usgroup 7y ago
...maths is not a formal language by any stretch of the imagination. I think about the best definition one can give is maths is what mathematicians do, and maths notation is what one mathematician writes down to communicate mathematics to a
742.
by usgroup 7y ago
Tbh it’s probably healthy. I think lots of people that have a good handle on the abstract world have a constant sense of what could be if only X was different about the real world. It’s an infuriating internal battle that lots of others can
743.
by usgroup 7y ago
Maths for web dev? You don’t need any maths beyond what you’ll learn in junior school: Arithmetic Basic algebra Basic Boolean logic That’s it. You’ll mostly be wrangling interfaces and/or api/DB plumbing. Making things testable an
744.
by usgroup 7y ago
I do for a slack app. I have to queue the writes to avoid lock related errors but writes are relatively rare for the app so that’s no problem. I also use SQLite for data analysis. If the data isn’t very big I always prefer it to ORC of Parq
745.
by usgroup 7y ago
... to say the least. Understanding enough about the thing to start making something with it makes it an order of magnitude easier to learn about in depth.
746.
by usgroup 7y ago
"MATLAB is the BMW sedan of the scientific computing world. It’s expensive, and that’s before you start talking about accessories (toolboxes). You’re paying for a rock-solid, smooth performance and service..." mmmmhmmmm...
747.
by usgroup 7y ago
Well done guys; your efforts are really appreciated. I use LaTeX for everything usually through Rnw files so that I can embed R all over the place. For me, I think some amount of literate programming functionality would be essential before
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CUDA Grep(cs.cmu.edu)
160 points by usgroup 7y ago|77 comments
749.
by usgroup 7y ago
Pffff naysayers ... https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15418-s12/www/c...
750.
by usgroup 7y ago
Lol , this is basically how I roll most the time . However what Linux is really missing right now is command line tools that saturate a GPU. Just counterparts to all the favourites that utilise the GPU ... imagine GPU awk.

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