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by vegabook 11y ago
In my domain (finance) correlations between vectors are unstable but (maybe) dependent on cross-sectional relationships in the problem space. Some of the mathematics behind elastic body deformation (car tyres in in mechanical engineering, f
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by vegabook 11y ago
...but the science guys have been offered zero incentive to move, this "end of life" argument has been worked to death without success, and so it's perhaps time to shift focus to the science community's real needs (ie: G
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by vegabook 11y ago
I am really excited about this library. Tensors are the future; matrices are going to look so old in a few years. In fairness, Theano already knew that. I cannot wait to dig into this and am very relieved that Google's best are still u
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by vegabook 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. Hunting around for a new language to do large scale concurrency in, I had shortlisted Clojure and even Golang, but the Phoenix presentations (and BEAM) tipped it for me. I also appreciate the fact that the Phoenix
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by vegabook 11y ago
Two questions: a) does using Wayland in Fedora 23 offer the ability to scale the UI across different DPI monitors in a consistent way in Fedora 23? And b) am I going to get significant problems with Wayland on applications such as VirtualBo
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by vegabook 11y ago
I was overly aggressive. It's regrettable. But every point I made has been seriously contemplated, and is in my opinion worthy of consideration. The extent to which the 2.7 community and its arguments, are treated with derision by the
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by vegabook 11y ago
FUD? I have >100k lines of highly sophisticated numerical analysis Numpy/Python code in fixed income which has cost literally millions of dollars. I'm not going to let that investment get toyed with by the webified 3.x crew wit
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by vegabook 11y ago
That's rich when it is the 2.7 users like myself who are constantly bombarded with arrogance and condescension. Nobody wants Python to stagnate. The argument is which direction it should take.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Newsflash. Python 3's main pragmatic selling points are Unicode and Async. Golang is Unicode by default, its concurrency model is much easier to reason about, and it's 20x faster. Why on earth would you use Python 3 (or 2) for you
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by vegabook 11y ago
I'm currently registered on the Ocaml mooc ;-) Very intrigued by Nim too. Yes I find Golang to be dry and uninspiring, but as per one of my other comments, I get 20x the performance, and the concurrency model beats Asyncio hands down.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Yes, I agree that Python 3 is not that bad to start a new project in. But that's not the problem. The problem is that many of us have a huge investment in Python, and the project is meandering around, borderline-insulting its histori
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by vegabook 11y ago
It would show leadership. Leadership which is demonstrably lacking in the 3.x line. Thus they could take a (risky but calculated) bet to take over Python completely.
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by vegabook 11y ago
It took me a week struggling with Asyncio to wrap my mind around it. It took me 12 hours to do the same with Golang channels. I got 20 000 inserts per second from a 360 gig JSON file into Cassandra using 30 goroutines. I was maxing out at 9
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by vegabook 11y ago
That is exactly what I am suggesting. There is no urgent necessity to add any new core language features to 2.7. That's what you 3 guys just don't get. I certainly don't need asyncio as much as I need vectorised numerics, a
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by vegabook 11y ago
Is bandwidth realistically at least in the high hundreds/low thousands of bps? Or are we literally talking a couple of bytes per minute?
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by vegabook 11y ago
Anything similar going on in Europe? London specifically? I would love to create some pocketable hardware that never needs recharging and sends text and (compact) vector-based graphical market updates to people.
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by vegabook 11y ago
> many people into Freifunk ..... I rest my case. There is demand for such a thing even if it's far from perfect. Not everybody is willing to trust the increasing encroachment by the authorities into the mainline internet. They&#x27
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by vegabook 11y ago
I'll go one step further and advocate for the PyPy developers please not to port to Python 3. Here we have a project which has clearly become the go to for 2.x people who would like Python to move forward in a way which makes a real
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by vegabook 11y ago
"puhleeze give us Python 3...." repeated everywhere in this comment thread, yet the authors of pypy keep responding with the same line: pay some money and we'll do it. This speaks to what the real industry users of Python alr
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by vegabook 11y ago
If your criteria for "getting anywhere significant" is to be even within two orders of magnitude as performant as the current internet, then you are correct. If however the aim is to build a distributed, no single point of failure
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by vegabook 11y ago
Interesting focus only on China. Apols I erased my comment but the original point was the political empires seem to last many centuries as oppposed to corporate empires which seem to be at their peak for mere decades. You make a massive err
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by vegabook 11y ago
It seems to be a pattern that even great companies don't last much longer than the average human lifespan. Even if IBM is a 130 year-old company, its glory days lasted somewhere between 40 and 80 years.
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by vegabook 11y ago
I have never worked for IBM.
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by vegabook 11y ago
I stand by my original assertion: > this is utterly ridiculous A vacant comment devoid of insight, by a self-satisfied person oblivious to their predisposition to complacency.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Tor gets an upvote from the establishment. Is that furthering the cause of privacy? So we'll now get more exit nodes? Personally believe that nothing less than a wholesale transport-layer alternative to the internet is necessary to mai
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by vegabook 11y ago
you're funny. Probably half of the tech you use every day has an IBM enabling technology behind it, thankfully paid for, directly or indirectly, by this "financial services" company. let's not forget that x86 itself coul
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by vegabook 11y ago
oooh! "TFA". I had to google that. TIL. You must be a master of UD scrabble.
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by vegabook 11y ago
The point is not that one needs to be a teenager ("child") to break into systems. None of what I have said is incompatible with the assertion that older coders have more skills, a point with which I agree. However it is not a cont
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by vegabook 11y ago
So they're less risk averse even if they're less competent. Probably right. Though I think there's also something intellectually liberating about having no risk constraints, which might allow for attack vectors that are uncon
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by vegabook 11y ago
try Reddit. Your (zero insight) posts are not constructive here.

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