cbkeller

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by cbkeller 3y ago
It looks like you very dramatically missed the point
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by cbkeller 3y ago
So in other Julia geometry-related projects that may be true, but for this particular corner of the ecosystem the main author (Júlio Hoffimann) has actually implemented much of the underlying geometry and other code from scratch (to the bes
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An Epic Fight over What Killed the Dinosaurs(wired.com)
2 points by cbkeller 3y ago|1 comments
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by cbkeller 3y ago
For this crowd, "machine learning" should really be read as parallel Bayesian inversion via MCMC (Metropolis modified with a form of "parallel tempering"), but that was a bit much to explain to a popular audience. The un
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by cbkeller 3y ago
I suspect there's a bit of an Eternal September effect going on as a wider audience ends up here (possibly fleeing the continuing "enshittification" of most all for-profit online fora)
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by cbkeller 3y ago
Femptolisp, a "Scheme dialect"
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by cbkeller 3y ago
That's how it works in any language on a supercomputer. MPI is pretty much the only game in town for inter-node communication.
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by cbkeller 3y ago
The most IDE-ish experience is probably currently the vscode plugin. I haven’t used pycharm specifically for comparison, but I suspect “probably not” as compared to a polished paid IDE in general. There’s progress being made though.
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by cbkeller 3y ago
> While the details of CCS provisioning vary in the different versions of the GPL agreements, the general principle is that CCS need to be provided either (a) along with the binary distributions to those who receive, or (b) to those who
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by cbkeller 3y ago
This is pretty clearly against the spirit, albeit probably not the letter, of the GPL. Sad to see.
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by cbkeller 3y ago
The author links this in the fourth paragraph; their argument is that while compute is not a viable moat, training data may be.
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by cbkeller 4y ago
Yes, I think so (and many already have)
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I've seen this criticism that it's "difficult to reason about which method will actually be called because of the type system" once before, but it absolutely flummoxes me... I have literally never been confused about whi
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by cbkeller 4y ago
It has good power/weight ratio in theory, esp. if you're burning it (c.f. space shuttle), but hard to store or transport it both densely and safely in a practical way -- i.e., unless you're comfortable dragging around cryogen
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by cbkeller 4y ago
Seasonal storage is an interesting idea. Rare grid outages seems pretty easy with batteries if the South Australia example is anything to go by though, and for medium-term storage there's also pumped hydro -- not sure where that compar
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I'll go one further: Hydrogen does nothing. It's a bad battery. After following this for more than a decade (starting with a bit of undergrad research on possible alternative fuel cell electrode materials -- albeit not a field tha
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I think this is the best answer, as someone who's been using the language for most of my work for a few years (but not in ML). Flux.jl is probably the highest-profile relevant effort, but it's been (AFAIU) pretty much entirely vol
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by cbkeller 4y ago
It seems like you have some emotional baggage involved here. I use Julia every day (for scientific computing). I have never worked with or for the Julia Computing folks, but don't agree with your characterization of them. I like Fortra
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by cbkeller 4y ago
There's https://github.com/atom-community/atom , hoping that or similar will gain traction
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I'm teaching an intro programming course (discipline-specific, for Earth sciences) in Julia at Dartmouth. So far so good I think -- but definitely on the sciences side of things.
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by cbkeller 4y ago
Latency / "ttfx" for all sorts of things has also dropped dramatically over the past ~year, and will get another big boost with the native code caching PR
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by cbkeller 4y ago
A correlation between mass extinctions and certain volcanic episodes known as "large igneous provinces" has been emerging over the last decade or two; this paper quantifies that correlation and suggests that there may have been a
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What Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth?(home.dartmouth.edu)
3 points by cbkeller 4y ago|1 comments
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by cbkeller 4y ago
Same day as RStudio changes to Posit?
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I actually donate a nominal amount via github sponsors just to help support hosting costs since I find the utility useful -- specifically in my case for allowing people using my Binder notebooks to get their data out of the container withou
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by cbkeller 4y ago
They ended the service, but you can host your own server -- which is what the developer of this package has done
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I think some people may expect it to be something that it's not. I'm probably a broken clock on this point but it's really a fundamentally different programming paradigm (dispatch-oriented) than most anything else, and organi
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by cbkeller 4y ago
I considered making one but didn't really feel it was worth it; in fact, there's a bit of a catch-22 in that Julia folks seem to have accumulated a reputation of "not being able to take criticism", so I think most folks
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by cbkeller 4y ago
While I think I can see where you're coming from, I will say as a personal anecdote that at this point I do feel that I can intuitively reason about the data at play quite easily, and no longer ever find myself running into any confusi
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by cbkeller 4y ago
Ah yeah, `llvmcall` is also part of the secret to the performance of LoopVectorization.jl / VectorizationBase.jl AFAIU. Conveniently, it's also pretty easy to check how any LLVM IR you've added manually with `llvmcall` is fit

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