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by vegabook 10y ago
Well said. Google hired Guido, and from being a big Python shop was so disenchanted with Unladen Swallow's abject failure that they invented a whole new language to replace it, and Guido became surplus to requirements. And the last ves
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by vegabook 10y ago
how easy is it, even if you do need complex calculations, to get the best of the Erlang VM and call out to say, Python/Numpy or C when necessary? Can these external processes still be supervised, for example? Are decent sized matrice
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by vegabook 10y ago
Double the ram, twice as fast, gigabit ethernet. 4k. Still usb 2.0 though. Much riskier on OS and software support/community though. If starting out I would go Rpi. But this is defo a very well specced little board.
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by vegabook 10y ago
you seem confused. Please explain how lambda and performance are "notoriously" unlikely to go hand-in-hand. They're orthogonal, yes. "Notorious"..what does that actually mean? Also I will disagree that stdlib and co
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by vegabook 10y ago
It's difficult for browser makers to differentiate themselves due to web standards. Thus it becomes a money-takes-all game where the diminishing returns on performance investment can be afforded only by the richest (Chrome). Maybe Mozi
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by vegabook 10y ago
32 bit. Please be serious. You know full well that for all non-toy work kdb is exhorbitantly expensive.
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by vegabook 10y ago
All lots of fun, but kdb has an eye watering cost of 200k dollars per year per server. Here's hoping some combo of Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more language stack flexibilty), Aerospike (lua built in), Impala, and others, can
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by vegabook 10y ago
this is the essence of the problem for Python's long term future. They've been so burned by the 2-to-3 mess that nobody will ever dare touch the fundamentals again. As you say, some of this stuff (performance, multicore) should ha
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by vegabook 10y ago
Not denying that Python was/is big in web, but point is that other languages now do that better, which is not true of science.
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by vegabook 10y ago
rofl! Numeric was started in 1995.
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by vegabook 10y ago
and the converse applies.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Except that personally I see the benefit of Systemd every time I boot my linux computer. It just works, fast, and clean. I don't partake in the philosophical arguments. I just want it to work. Py3 by contrast, simply throws cruft curve
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by vegabook 10y ago
the benefit is that all the wasted energy that went into all the useless 3.x stuff, could have been spent on advancing Python's speed, multicore, or GPU programming capabilities. Instead, for the single use case where Python is clearly
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by vegabook 10y ago
Python 3 is a seriously misguided project. It's got tons of newer-to-Python fans (your HN downvoter demographic), and tons of silent-majority "real-world" users especially in scientific programming who just don't like it
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by vegabook 10y ago
There always has to be someone rolling out the horses-for-courses pitch. No. I wanted Lua to gain traction with other people . That's the point. I would have liked the Lua sci-ecosystem to be healthy as an alternative.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Luajit is at least 10x faster than python and easily obviates the need to mess around with cython. That's an easy win for Lua. Let's be honest: Torch has decided that if you cannot beat them, join them. It is about network effects
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by vegabook 10y ago
Thanks for the interesting and informative comment. Do I sense just a tiny bit of regret though? Yet another Python interface. YAPI. You heard it here first. And no, Py3 is not that nice. Too much cruft by far. And lua is miles faster than
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by vegabook 10y ago
Guess there's no escaping Python. I had hoped Lua(jit) might emerge as a scientific programming alternative but with Torch now throwing its hat into the Python ring I sense a monoculture in the making. Bit of a shame really because Lua
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by vegabook 10y ago
good to see open source activity in this space given the eye-watering prices that mapd is charging. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M0ZY2OV?qid=1484735...
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by vegabook 10y ago
so "October", I'm guessing, fully 2 years after Dell's latitude 15s did 32 gig in a perfectly thin and impressive design, and by which time, most likely, Dell and Lenovo will be showing 64 gig options. Only one solution
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by vegabook 10y ago
But I can't actually buy an Ubuntu phone anymore. And I want to because I lost me aquaris E5. This is not a good situation even for the most committed and patient early adopters (like me).
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by vegabook 10y ago
Travis Oliphant, Numpy creator, is CEO of Continuum Analytics.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Firefox is my default browser but I have Chrome handy too in case I have to use Google Docs (things like Copy paste don't work properly in Firefox). I find that Firefox is maybe 50% slower than Chrome on initial load, but thereafter, I
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by vegabook 10y ago
I'm a bit of a monitor nut myself and I too am running 2xBDM4065UC. Actually I run the second one above the first one, mounted at an angle towards me, and with a lean-back, headrested, programmers chair. It's awesome. If you can g
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by vegabook 10y ago
I run a 40" Philips 4k monitor as my primary desktop which sits 3 feet away from me, and I can guarantee you that I can see every single pixel still. It's nothing like a 5k iMac, for example, which at 40 inches, would basically be
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by vegabook 10y ago
2.7 haha. First Tensorflow, now Grumpy. I can't stop laughing as all the 3.x zealots try to squirm out of this. Talk about awkward. yes yes I know tf now "does" 3 but we all know what Google really cares about. "I'd
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by vegabook 10y ago
arguably the "crisis" was a perfectly rational response to inputs, namely, people no longer being able to service their debts.
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by vegabook 10y ago
The difference is that chess, go, etc are all essentially rules based. Finance has very few rules that do not break over time. Just look at QE. Arguably the financial market represents the collective intelligence of a huge amount of very cl
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by vegabook 10y ago
because traders are used to seeing such predictions fail. Reuters was trading FX electronically since the early 1990s. At the tier one IB I worked for the IT budget was 500m USD a year (across products), and that was in 1997! Huge resources
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by vegabook 10y ago
600 KW is some chunky wattage. It's unlikely you can charge very many cars at the same time without having a power station next door. Delivering, for example, 10 megawatts to handle 15 cars simultaneously, requires some very heavy elec

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