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by xiaodai 4y ago
not overestimate. i think they know of the challenges and stickiness of python die hards. but there's a better way, there's a better way. like python used to be less popular than perl but look at where perl is now vs python. thing
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by xiaodai 4y ago
well. python has ALOT of stuff but alot of it is garbage compared to how they should be done. like python's lambda, you literally have to write the word lambda. it's ugly af i bet the python macros will be ugly af too. also walrus
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by xiaodai 4y ago
care to elaborate
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by xiaodai 4y ago
amen
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by xiaodai 4y ago
let's see, fortran, r, matlab. all serious numerical languages have that. it's more natural 0 base indexing is only good for calculating memory offsets. Nothing else. like in go `vec[a,b]` is indexing `a` to `b-1` which is purely
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by xiaodai 4y ago
> Julia doesn’t have proper traits nor interfaces as opposed to Python? where type hints are just that. Hints. It's not even enforced. But u can use mypy... right.... yeah, retrofit more stuff on python. why not? (sarcastic). I am n
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Yeah. It's a chicken and egg thing. Imagine if resources applied to PyTorch was spent implementing in Julia. But then there's not enough users... so the cycle continues until one day Julia hits critical mass and a tipping point is
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Please don't retrofit more stuff to make python work. move over to julia already. u can call python from Julia
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by xiaodai 4y ago
I would do cobol if it's 2000 a day
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Google Has ‘Delusions of Exceptionalism’(fortune.com)
37 points by xiaodai 4y ago|15 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Come to Australia please!
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Unshowy competence brings drawbacks as well as benefits(economist.com)
42 points by xiaodai 4y ago|20 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Ok. I've checked. it's not 1 April.
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The Usability of Advanced Type Systems: Rust as a Case Study(arxiv.org)
1 points by xiaodai 4y ago|0 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
wasn't there some rumours about excel adding python support? what happened to that?
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by xiaodai 4y ago
this paper is extraordinarily bad. Like what variable makes a good programmer. doesn't say that. just says variable importance. so frustrating. at least show the signs of the values form logistic regression.
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Medium data is where it's at! diskframe.com and polars and arrows are good enough for most use cases!
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by xiaodai 4y ago
People slack off when they r at home
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Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses(news.unl.edu)
640 points by xiaodai 4y ago|111 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
God bless them. How can we help to stop crime like this?
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Data Wrangling Puzzles: Hanukkah of Data(hanukkah.bluebird.sh)
3 points by xiaodai 4y ago|0 comments
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Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access(winglang.io)
261 points by xiaodai 4y ago|148 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Is "Conditions and Restarts" related to delimited continuation?
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by xiaodai 4y ago
> Rather the main bottlenecks I’ve faced were always crappy infrastructure and lacking (quality) data, so it has always felt natural to focus my efforts toward learning that stuff to unblock myself. Right. What can you learn to over come
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Money
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by xiaodai 4y ago
Yes - C++ can be complicated. However it doesn't have to be. There's nobody forcing you to use templates......
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New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI–but loses to human amateurs(arstechnica.com)
3 points by xiaodai 4y ago|2 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
He's one of my personal heroes!!! Go Zhang!
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Choi Jeong became the first woman to reach the final of an international Go comp(old.reddit.com)
4 points by xiaodai 4y ago|0 comments
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by xiaodai 4y ago
duh

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