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by 4thaccount 7y ago
It looks like y'all are mostly a Python shop?
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Also it has a bunch of common desktop shortcuts installed and canonical metrics all disabled...and disk encryption.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Yes. System76 is definitely expensive, but their customer service is the best I've seen for any product period. They have a super snappy site with real people you can talk to in Denver and ask off the wall questions about the hardware
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Does anyone know Alan well enough to answer the question "will he ever publish a magnum opus designed to explain the distillent of what he's learned"? That might be worth reading if he can make it explainable to mere mortals.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Interesting article on doing more manufacturing in America. The problem is that this is an extremely expensive and niche product. I want slightly more expensive products made in the USA and I'll pay a premium for it, but nothing astron
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Anyone experienced with ImGUI ever use Rebol and Red's DRAW DSL? I believe Rebol's GUI support is even easier to use than ImGUI, but of course it can't be embedded and used in the same way as ImGUI either. I wonder if non Red
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Agile Artificial Intelligence(agileartificialintelligence.github.io)
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
There is a large interview with Chuck Moore of Forth fame on O'Reilly Safari Online. Much of the interview focuses on things like how an OS is uneccesarry and shouldn't exist. Granted, he has drastically different needs than the a
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
"Rust is the new APL,like I said" I know you're trying to compare it to APL as that language mostly died off and is thus obscure, but I think the analogy is a little off. While APL is weird, it is actually really easy for me
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
This. They still make content, but I believe it's all digital. I don't think they create paper books anymore. Is that incorrect?
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
I have lots of programming books (30-40) from half a dozen publishers and Manning is one of my favorite along with NoStarch Press. O'Reilly is probably third, but they don't make books anymore. Packt is alright, but you often don&
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
I borrowed this from someone at work once. I never got a chance to write a Fortran app, but the book wasn't bad.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
It's very fast and there is a new Manning book about to come out on Modern Fortran that is all about parallel Fortran. In addition to being fast, I find it considerably easier to read than C++ as it isn't as low level and doesn&#x
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Thank you! I'll look.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
As someone without any knowledge of OSTree or Fedora Silverblue, can you go into more detail?
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
I've used Xubuntu for years as a weekend OS for side projects. It seems to work well.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Neat...I just wish there was an easy way to give the basemap library a 3-item tuple with (lat, lon, value) and have it automatically do a heat map and not just plot the points. That is an option in some software.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
As if the algorithms behind numerical methods weren't hard enough, now we have to add parallelism :)
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
It wasn't too bad. If you look up the Mathematica GraphTheory primitives for building diagrams it is pretty simple. To give an example of a diagram showing love interests you create a variable for each person and set is equal to a pict
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Thanks for the hard work in the Mathematica SQL area. I know y'all have lots and lots of database documentation, but I've had trouble commenting from Mathematica to Oracle via ODBC. It's a tad confusing, but I'm sure I&#
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Yes and No. If you ignore Python being a powerhouse in the scripting world and just focus on numerical stuff like matrix and symbolic math, both Python and Mathematica have that. Some people like myself that love Python and know how to use
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Octave and Scilab are more Matlab like replacements as a user below commented. Sure both are for mathematical code, but Octave is more for numerical work and Mathematica for Symbolic computation. However, Mathematica is powerful in a much b
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
This. If I want anything installed it requires survey from IT and Legal and can take months. If it is Java or C# and already in-use, it is pretty simple. If I wanted to install a Go compiler, it could get complicated. Not having Admin right
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
My usual advice is to also check out Aaron Hsu's talks on YouTube and his posts on HN (user arcfide I think). Really eye opening and alien stuff. Dyalog also sells a standard keyboard with the APL symbols printed on the keys. You might
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Dyalog uses non ASCII symbols which are really cool to me and make the primitives very easy to learn. Check out tryapl.org to get a feel for it. You can also download a trial version and there is a free book. They have decent library suppor
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
I'm not aware of too many folks using A+ anymore as it is pretty ancient and hasn't been updated in a very long time. Array languages I would consider for actual work are mostly: Dyalog APL, J, and K if I could afford kdb+. If I w
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
K uses traditional ASCII characters and is usually bundled with kdb+ for speedy timeseries analysis. I would use Dyalog APL or J over K in many cases. K is also really expensive (kdb+)...I'm not sure about Shakti (the K inventor formed
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
If I understand you correctly, why use K over another language like Java? Java is a good enterprise language, but K is a good analysis language. It is very terse and powerful. Look up Kdb+.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Smalltalk is like this and so is SBCL with Emacs Slime mode.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Thank you. As someone who doesn't live in that part of the US, I frequently forget about Cambridge the US city.

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