BadInformatics

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by BadInformatics 5y ago
I think it's more complicated than that. The projects that are getting the funding are usually the hard, technical ones, but that funding also supports better docs + more time for API design. This doesn't apply to bleeding edge st
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
You're in luck, because (assuming the scans are in a compatible format), this is exactly what 3D Slicer was designed for.
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Who is doing more than a couple rounds of interviews outside of (pardon the scare quotes) "tech companies"? Has anyone run into, say, a bank pulling 4+ rounds of interviews, or is this limited to FAANG(M), SV companies and startup
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Bronson and Pigott were a nice read, but it's unclear where Föll is getting most of his conjecture from because they certainly don't talk about it. Frankly, the whole piece smacks of the same Diamond-esque "they made firework
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Trying to interpret individual radicals of a character as standalone components using their original meaning is enticing, but more often than not incorrect. For example, the character for maternal aunt uses the same radical. Phonetic-semant
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
It does not, and any discussion of whether certain public health measures should've been implemented should take that into consideration. Toronto-area hospitals were literally sending ICU patients to smaller cities because their own wa
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Canadaland did a great series on the pathology of Vancouver real estate recently [1]. TL;DL there is no consensus on the root cause, but the usual suspects of bureaucracy, NIMBYism and foreign investment all make an appearance. [1] https:&
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Vancouver may have "no industry" relative to SV, but it is a veritable black hole for tech on the west coast of Canada. The same rat race of high-skilled, well-paying jobs only being available in HCoL cities is just as much of an
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The Trouble with SPIR-V(xol.io)
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Saying all the underdog competitors should team up is a nice idea, but as anyone who has seen how the standards sausage is made (or, indeed, has tried something similar) will tell you, it is often more difficult than everyone going their ow
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
> Do you think AMD should solve every problem CUDA solves for their customers too? They had no choice. Getting a bunch of HPC people to completely rewrite their code for a different API is a tough pill to swallow when you're trying
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
I've mentioned this on other forums, but it would help to have some kind of easily visible, public tracker for this progress. Even a text file, set of GitHub issues or project board would do. Why? Because as-is, most people still belie
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Google may have coined the term (not sure about this), but it's far from their own thing [1]. PWA should've been a blanket term for a set of standards and guidelines for developing web apps. Those include progressive enhancement,
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Transformers.jl and TextAnalysis.jl already provide quite a bit of functionality for NLP, though to my knowledge neither makes use of RNNs. You may be interested in commenting on https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl/i
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
The community staying very active has been the biggest factor here IMO. The predecessor to the current Definitive Edition, the rather disastrous (engine-wise, not content-wise) HD Edition, was created in part by co-opting community made mod
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
From TFA: > We’ll also be hosting a Q&A session 02.08., 10PM UTC (03.08., 12AM CEST | 8AM AEST). Jeremy will be there, too. Meeting link will follow soon. My understanding is that he's at least been aware of this since early dev
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Having tried fastai for a "serious" research project and helped (just a bit) towards FastAI.jl development, here's my take: > motivation behind this is unclear. Julia currently has two main DL libraries. Flux, which is som
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/Chain.jl would probably work there, but you're not the only one who would like to see this in the language/stdlib itself.
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
For sure, I didn't mean to imply they weren't looking at compute too! https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion is another example of the shared compute vision. What I was trying to point out is that (at lea
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
As much as many of us would like it to be, the kind of data science work you see Scala used for is a pretty small part of what Julia is used for. I think a big part of that is because DS rarely involves writing fast numeric kernels or hot i
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Regarding RL, did you look at https://juliareinforcementlearning.org/ ? I haven't used it myself, so it would be interesting to know where it's lacking.
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
To your point about static analysis, https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl appears far more capable than comparable systems for other dynamic languages.
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
I'd like to see those as well, with the caveat that I've yet to see a language implement some of them performantly (e.g. arguments against higher-kinded types in Rust).
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Arrow is getting support for N-d arrays, so if anything they're expanding in that area (which is exciting). I don't think they're interested in creating a universal libarrow though, the point of the data format and C data int
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
> Revise.jl inside the REPL is annoying as hell to use when you start messing with structs. > And Revise.jl kind of proves the fact that incremental compilation is entirely possible. If it wasn't possible at all due to $maximum_d
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Can you elaborate on where the hole is? Jeff Bezanson's thesis work on Julia was undoubtedly PLT, as were some of the other folks at the Julia Lab now (e.g. Shuhei Kadowaki). Keno Fischer is very much into all things PLT, as can be evi
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
Julia does appear to have a higher than usual proportion of package authors to total users, FWIW. I think it's both a blessing and a curse, because feedback around gaps in the ecosystem is sometimes brushed away with "write your o
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
This is definitely not just a you problem. There are resources out there like [1] and [2], but much less in the way of curation and a dearth of end-to-end tutorials/walkthroughs. I'm not sure how best to improve the situation, but
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
I do wonder if you'd see similar reactionary claims about Elixir being a general-purpose language if the community experienced constant shallow and misinformed claims to the contrary (which Julia has in abundance, for some reason). Ima
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by BadInformatics 5y ago
I agree progress on the deeper problems is slow, and I also think that it is slow because 90%+ of the issues people have with Julia are "user experience" things (see any of the help forums as well as all of the previous HN discuss

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