jamesjporter

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by jamesjporter 12y ago
I wonder what this means for the future of OpenStack?
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by jamesjporter 12y ago
This sounds really cool; I'd love to see a blog post about it :)
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by jamesjporter 12y ago
It's basically an attempt to bring the user interface of Mathematica or MATLAB (the "notebook") to the Python world. You can get an idea of what this is like in Mathematic by watching Wolfram's demo: https://w
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by jamesjporter 12y ago
We used to use gluster in production but had similar problems to raggiskula and are currently in the process of moving away from it.
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by jamesjporter 12y ago
This comment overstates the current power of Julia's parallel programming model — as of now Julia has no real tools for shared-memory parallelism and probably will not for another few versions or so. For distributed memory Julia is gre
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by jamesjporter 12y ago
It's not a genetic algorithm, but FFTW's planning system actually does perform experiments to optimize for a particular machine's hardware.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
ydash = [1 => y[1]] creates a Dict that maps for from Int64 to Float64, `=>` is used for declaring Dict literals in Julia. c.f.: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/?highlight=
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I wish someone would try this again for Emacs :(
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
it's interesting how some software problems have garnered many really good solutions while others are still mired in stuff like this. e.g. no matter what your preferred source control tool is I think we can all agree that there are som
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I think he might mean "shaking things up" (which Node certainly has done) rather than "taking over the world" (which, as you point out, it has not).
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
This already exists as a prototype as part of IJulia, see Leah Hanson's awesome blog post about it here: http://blog.leahhanson.us/julia-calling-python-calling-julia... The collaboration between the scientific Python a
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
It's less a matter of ability and more a matter of having the time/motivation. If you took a bunch of practicing natural scientists and/or engineers and forced them somehow to enroll in a course teaching Scheme/Clojure&#
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I agree with collyw; Lisp is too much for most scientists, who just care about getting their research done and can't be bother to learn all this weird FP/paren stuff [1]. Supplying an obvious, familiar syntax that looks like math
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Julia is designed to be a good general purpose language. There are already a bunch of database drivers; a simple web framework, etc., etc. http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/packages/packagelis...
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Us Emacs users unfortunately have to remap it to control to retain sanity on standard keyboards :P
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
What tom said; also typing a url in a browser is a lot easier than installing something. This might sound silly but for the typical computer user (and even many nerds!) it makes a big difference.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
For those interested in this sort of thing, Julia's Gadfly can also use D3 as a backend: https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl (although to be fair gadfly has more in common with ggplot than matplotlib)
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
ido doesn't become really amazing until you add ido-ubiquitous (which makes most minibuffer completions use the ido interface, as opposed to just file opens) and flx-ido (which allows fuzzy matching).
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
This makes a ton of sense, but it might be unorthodox enough to scare off some users thinking it was a scam of some sort.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Hacker School was an amazing experience for me; I had been programming on and off for ~2.5 years when I attended last summer. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat more about it (email in profile)
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
FWIW, running Wes' code with a fresh pull of Julia today shows some improvement in the pure-Julia benchmarks at least: Array operations took 79.55683398 ms inner took 23.88444026 ms BLAS took 48.182116560000004ms Obvi
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Julia is a really cool language; I came to it from a python background and in a lot if ways it feels like "python done right"
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
This is correct. The point of attending HackReactor, Dev Bootcamp, etc., is to gain a specific set of skills (often starting from zero) that will get you a job. The point of attending Hacker School is to become a better programmer , whatev
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Congrats on the release to everyone involved; very excited about the future!
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Cool project, I've been thinking about writing one for MIPS (I'm taking a computer architecture class this quarter :))
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
+1 for installing python from homebrew; letting the default OSX installation be used at all has caused me mad problems in the past.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
BWT is mindblowing. So many applications; e.g. it's used by pretty much all popular biological sequence alignment software to compress genomes so they fit in memory during the alignment :D
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
The story I read about it claimed the following: He had made changes/improvements to various FOSS projects he was using at Goldman that he wanted to submit as patches upstream but his bosses wouldn't let him. He figured that since
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I agree with paulgb and others -- most of my past work with python could be called scientific programming in one way or another and pip has been enormously useful.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
This seems like a really expansive way to say don't do something if you don't enjoy it, which I think is good advice for anyone, not just undergraduate hackers.

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