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   by zengid 10y ago

   I'm going back for a masters in IT. For me: Job fairs, Internships, and the 'stamp of approval' that a degree translates to for hiring managers. Basically its a way to get my foot in the door. Also If I weren't getting a
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   by zengid 10y ago

   I like this quote from the 'motivation' link above: "A lot of Julia's design fell directly out of making it easy to generate LLVM IR – in some ways, Julia is just a really great DSL for LLVM's JIT." Excited to
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   by zengid 10y ago

   Thanks for sharing!
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   by zengid 10y ago

   So, sorry to change the subject away from pi, but how does Julia do on the code-gen end? Are we talking SIMD type optimizations? Are there hooks in the language for tuning hot-code? I'm curious because I'm trying to find an exampl
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   by zengid 10y ago

   Thanks for the answers, folks. Maybe I was looking for Julia[1]? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)
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   by zengid 10y ago

   So there might be room for improving R?
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   by zengid 10y ago

   Thanks! I found an interesting discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561573
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   Ask HN: Example of a 'non-scalar' programming language?

   3 points by zengid 10y ago|9 comments
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   by zengid 10y ago

   I agree with you that operator precedence parsers are somewhat opaque in terms of how they function (at least I can say Pratt parsers are, of which I am most familiar). One has to juggle a lot of mechanics in their head. Also, they have to
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    by zengid 10y ago

    What might be an example of a syntax that can't be expressed (parsed) with a Pratt parser?
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    by zengid 10y ago

    A bit of inspiration can be gleaned from the work of Dr Stefik on Evidence-based language design [1][2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFrE6cgVNY [2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2534973
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Quite an interesting (and somewhat infuriating) history. Cadillac Desert [1] is also an excellent chronicle of water projects in the west. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing...
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Great talk, I've been hoping to find something like this because CPU's seem like they're a dark-art these days. Also, not related, but Cliff Click's accent is delightful.
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Your answers have a lot of insight. As a blue-state city kid, I've been struggling to even comprehend how a Trump supporter can even exist let alone understand how he was elected. From your response I can start to understand where they
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    by zengid 10y ago

    This is the words of a TRUMP supporter!: >“I'm a Jewish libertarian who's [sic] grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Over the last few years the mainstream left has resorted to name-calling and character assassination, inste
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    by zengid 10y ago

    The video from Channel9 in the 'Showcase' section features an interview of David Ungar, one of the brains behind the Self programming language. Self was influential for using the prototype model, now used by JavaScript. Also, Lars
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Not the author, nor an expert, but I'm guessing it could be setup so that the 'OS' throws and interrupt when it receives a transmission signal requesting the REPL process [1]. So whatever normal processes that the device need
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Another thread with a related subject (and more current projects): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8340283
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    by zengid 10y ago

    I can't remember where it is (somewhere in the middle), but I like the part where Alan Kay describes (paraphrasing) programming languages as 'Idealized machines', and that if we layer ideal machines on top of each other it in
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    by zengid 10y ago

    I agree, but hey, at least you have a framework you can use to fill in the missing CS pieces on your own! You're probably in a better position to be promoted to a management level with an IS degree over a CS, so that's not a bad t
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    by zengid 10y ago

    There is no single answer that someone can give you; It really depends on you and your background. As a personal rule of thumb I look at what big companies like Microsoft or Google expect of their employees (particularly Google). I know not
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    by zengid 10y ago

    If it ain't baroque, don't fix it!
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Alan Kay once said (at an Erlang conference): "By the time the software engineering of a language gets in good shape, the language has become obsolete in terms of 'needed expressiveness'. [Therefore] in a 'Real' com
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    by zengid 10y ago

    It says Elixir uses the Actor model, but doesn't Erlang use Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP)?
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Sorry, Proof by *Contradiction. That's what I get for fooling around with math.
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Existential proof by contraposition: I would attempt to disprove you, but I don't wish to sit up from the couch or put down my guitar. Therefore, you are correct (about me at least).
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    by zengid 10y ago

    I'm an amateur LISP hacker and not an expert, and I hope this thread doesn't turn into a flame war, but I can say that LISP is excellent for symbolic computations (a la lambda calculus, which Turing proved was equivalent to a Turi
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    Tech Archaeology: Unearthing the Artifacts of a False Prediction(ngideo.blogspot.com)

    2 points by zengid 10y ago|0 comments
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    by zengid 10y ago

    I added both to my wish-list; Thanks!
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    by zengid 10y ago

    Ha! I love this line: "To make great products: Do machine learning like the great engineer you are, not like the great machine learning expert you aren’t."