kristofferc

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by kristofferc 9mo ago
Down 2% in the last 5 days?
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by kristofferc 9mo ago
Can you link to the conversation log?
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by kristofferc 1y ago
Actually, it sounds quite ok.
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by kristofferc 1y ago
That's 10 grams?? Does that even fit in a pill?
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by kristofferc 1y ago
Scales perfectly well with a 1.8 million donation to the correct place, though. Her mistake was not the fraud, it was the forgotten donation.
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by kristofferc 2y ago
Except for the language semantics.
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by kristofferc 2y ago
I think it was a joke
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by kristofferc 2y ago
Flying cars already exist. We just call them helicopters.
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by kristofferc 3y ago
Where does "tight music" come into those constraints.
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by kristofferc 3y ago
Yeah, this isn't benchmarking anything related to the CPU etc. It is benchmarking the quirks of the Python interpreter.
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by kristofferc 3y ago
There is also a new player in the game of C++ wrapping Julia: https://github.com/Clemapfel/jluna
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by kristofferc 3y ago
One difference is that Pkg.offline(true) will error if it cannot resolve something with packages already installed while with this option it will fall back to downloading new versions.
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by kristofferc 3y ago
What did you feel you needed to use macros for?
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by kristofferc 3y ago
> I provide the option of Julia in my tutorials. I also did this and only the students that were well ahead of the rest gave it a try. But I think this is natural, many students are already pushed to the limit to manage the current set o
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Julia 1.9(julialang.org)
276 points by kristofferc 3y ago|208 comments
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by kristofferc 4y ago
A real person can also have a real-world doppelganger. In fact, isn't this just as likely as an AI generated person having one, maybe even more? So doing this swap didn't really change anything when it comes to "innocent&quot
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by kristofferc 4y ago
Same as what would happen if a real person looked like another real person, I presume.
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by kristofferc 4y ago
Functions can inline global const values and these will not be updated when you change it in a way that emits the warning. So it is not the same, the warning is not there for no reason.
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by kristofferc 4y ago
It is already illegal to interfere.
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by kristofferc 4y ago
I wouldn't say that @inbounds is a "horrible hack". Just like the `unsafe` part of Rust is not a "horrible hack". There are cases where it is impossible for a compiler to statically verify that an index access is in
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by kristofferc 4y ago
Warning about such things is the job for a linter. There is a linter for Julia so such a thing could be added there. It shouldn't be a runtime warning though, like you propose.
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by kristofferc 5y ago
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rust-julia-comparison-post... seems to be about 2x faster than the (optimized) Rust version with some minor tweaks to the Julia code so perhaps that is more in your ballpark?
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by kristofferc 5y ago
https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/ also has a nice discussion about the possible pitfalls of "fast"-math.
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by kristofferc 5y ago
Alternatively, the high price of long term psychological and physiological effects, particularly in children from very long lockdowns Time will tell.
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by kristofferc 5y ago
> Free online numerical methods classes are available How can you use any numerical methods (like error analysis) if you don't have a solid foundation with strict rules to analyze on top on?
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by kristofferc 5y ago
How can it happen three times if it bricks the machine?
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by kristofferc 5y ago
Julia is not interpreted.
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by kristofferc 5y ago
It's my understanding that most insurance companies earn most of their money by investing their float, not by paying out less than they bring in from customers.
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by kristofferc 5y ago
For people with sleep disorders.
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by kristofferc 5y ago
> unless there’s significant more work put into reducing latency or PackageCompiler.jl. What features do you want out of PackageCompiler.jl? Any specific workflows you have in mind?

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