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by ziotom78 8y ago
The book that changed my life is "The Brothers Karamazov," by Dostoevsky. Nowhere I found such a great depth and insight into the nature of human freedom, and the reading questioned many beliefs I had at the time about human nat
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The idea of forcing modules to be defined in files with a deterministic way to pair module names and file names seems pretty reasonable. Two examples come to my mind: - Go doesn't place requirements to the name of files defining a pack
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It's been a long time since I heard of OSFree. Is it still active?
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I fully agree! But, as somebody else said, it can be difficult to read old literature, as mathematical notation and terms are things that have evolved significantly in the last centuries. There are two "new" references about &quot
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OTOH, because of the same rule, the following abomination is legal in C++, but its analogous in Nim would trigger a compilation error: int main() { int myVar = 1; int my_var = 2; int mYVAR = 3; int myVA
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The authors considered this objection and rejected it. Apparently, the "best" places were already taken by Franciscans, which arrived in the New World maggiore the Jesuits.
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Essentially, because at that time I was the only one in charge of producing the reports, and so I could choose any tool in the market. (This does not mean that I have not met resistance by other colleagues in using Chicken Scheme: had I use
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Wow! It has been almost 6-7 years since I used Chicken Scheme, but I have fond memories of it. I wrote a program to automatize the creation of scientific reports in the Planck/LFI project [1]. The purpose was to quickly scan a large nu
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The author of the answer is Jon Harrop, a well-known former Ocaml evangelist (and author of an awesome book, "Ocaml for scientists", [1]). He sometimes gets a bit too far in explaining the virtues of Ocaml... I carefully studied t
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This is true, but consider that today we are using computers fo to run tasks much more complex than 30 years ago. Rendering a complex HTML page with CSS and Javascript is an herculean and time-consuming task, which is why Firefox and Chrome
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A similar idea is used in UnicodePlots [1], a Julia terminal plotting library. This kind of tools is very useful when you are connected to some HPC cluster and want to have a quick look at the contents of data files. Of course, the approach
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by ziotom78 8y ago
Very appropriate comment. Last year I was tinkering with the implementation of a TUI (Text User Interface), and I wanted it to be cross-platform. I started developing it under Windows, using the Console API (sorely lacking in features, but
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Really? How do you do this? I continuously switch to reader mode for a few sites I read regularly, I would love to make this switch automatic.
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This is the kind of HN post I love the most. Now, if only s somebody could port Julia to C64...
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I found Wilcox's "Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods" extremely interesting: it explains the pros and cons of classical statistics with means and standard deviations. And all of this list carefully explained through e
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New delay for JWST(thespacereview.com)
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Yes, that's exactly my own experience. Moreover, we are forced to use ROOT [1] to compute histograms and create graphics: its weird use of OOP makes the students think that they have to use classes even to implement simple functions (e
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This is some very good advice! I am teaching a C++ class and am struggling with the quality of the code my students are producing. Their programs output the correct answer, yet the style is really lacking. Periodic code reviews of some sele
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But society is made of people! And calling a customer "yuppie" doesn't sound respectful...
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My experience tells that computationally intensive codes are roughly 10% slower that their C++/Fortran counterparts. So fare we are implementing a data analysis pipeline for a cosmological telescope (LSPE/STRIP), and we are migrat
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The figure "20%" alone means nothing. You are probably meaning, "20% in this specific benchmark with "non-huge matrices" (as said by the OP). Algorithms can show wildly different performance when run on small-scale
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Except that, when you are writing scientific code to solve a large linear problem, like a weather model or asupernova simulation, the difference between some naïve code and a heavily optimized one can be ten hours against ten days...
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The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky, without doubt. Seriously, the chapter with the Legend of the Great Inquisitor forced me to ask myself what was the meaning of "freedom", and this in turns urged me to reconsider a lot of beli
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My first experience with the programming was on a Commodore Vic-20. I vividly remember the users manual, which explained how to use the computer through simple BASIC programs. I still find amazing that in those times computer manuals also w
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Yes, and it was AWESOME! I never used it as a replacement for bash (no readline support), but a lot of shell scripts were much easier to write and to read in Scheme: full support for mathematical expression, elegant iteration, support for l
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When I read the title, I thought it was an essay about the European Union...
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Sorry for the naivety, I am not an expert of quantum computing, therefore I asked. I am quite interested in the topic, might you give me some references, please?
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"Can" or "could in principle"?
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> Consider using Boost Atlas, would it be that simple. A few years ago I was in a similar situation to the one described here, and I tried to switch to Boost. Things went bad piety soon, as this old post of mine described: http:/&#
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I live in Italy and sincerely hope they are not going to ban Dante's Comedy from school because of its anti-Muslim stanzas! Authors should always be contextualized within the age and place where they lived and created their works. Howe

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