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by programnature 14y ago
Congrats, the improvements are quality. Would love to switch to light table, but I need paredit. Can't switch without paredit.
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by programnature 14y ago
All spiritual experiences sound like gobbledygook to those who have never had a spiritual experience. That they are beyond rational explanation is a feature, not a bug.
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by programnature 14y ago
This is not about you, this is about what is good for the country. Is it good for the country to disincentivize graduate work for people who are born here? Is it good for the country for every STEM lecturer to have bad english language skil
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by programnature 14y ago
That kind of reasoning is what got us into Iraq. I'm simply suggesting thinking through the consequences rather than simply cheerleading. For example, would we be comfortable with 90% of science students being not from the US? What if we ma
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by programnature 14y ago
Sure it does. This instantly makes the degree more valuable to the foreign student. Thus the university can extract more work for lower wages from them. Wages for teaching are not set by individual professors, and thats where most of the po
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by programnature 14y ago
I support this reform, but we should consider the unintended consequences. Tying US citizenship with graduate work will incentivize universities to treat graduate students like slave labor, moreso than they are already. This is a recipe for
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by programnature 14y ago
but is this an apple-to-apple comparison to the node.js results referenced in the post?
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by programnature 14y ago
While I'm glad the author got useful insights into conventional reality, the article sets a counterproductive tone about the point of the practice. Vipassana is about directly seeing impermanence, dissatisfaction, and lack of self in all se
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by programnature 14y ago
I doubt that limit affects your use case. The limit is on the number of mathematica mathkernel processes, not on the number of processes the kernel calls out to. Though, it likely takes some fiddling to set up numerous R processes per mathe
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by programnature 14y ago
Graph is not distributed, at least not in the way that Storm is. Notice the post doesn't talk about assigning individual components to individual machines. AFAICT its intended to run on a beefy box, and then horizontally scaled.
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by programnature 14y ago
Who said anything about the image model? This is about doing analysis of the git repo. Not replacing the git repo.
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by programnature 14y ago
This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient currencies. "Compute things people want". I could only imagine what they could d
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by programnature 14y ago
And he removed the big name-calling rant section after the phone call... the one set off by a loss of 51 dollars. Looks more like a publicity stunt rather than righteous outrage.
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by programnature 14y ago
The tech community needs to become a lot more politically engaged. Particularly where it counts: campaign contributions.
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by programnature 14y ago
I'm all for open source. I just don't think the reproducibility of experiments is a valid argument against commercial scientific software. It's an age-old purist argument. In the meantime, people have been getting stuff done. And without th
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by programnature 14y ago
It is a feature of those systems, but not the foundation. Mathematica is a term-rewriting system. This is a fundamentally different model of computation from the lambda calculus. There are many practical consequences of this, in terms of th
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by programnature 14y ago
Do you think the world would be better off if Mathematica, Matlab, SPSS etc didn't exist? In reality, they make experiments more repeatable, not less. The real offender is the in-house, proprietary software developed by individual research
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by programnature 14y ago
Interesting attempt, but it is easy to break. Try Plot[Sin[x], {x, -5, 200}] The plot is all over the place. In Mathematica it is a smooth sine wave. You can put the same input into Wolfram Alpha and see how it looks there.
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by programnature 14y ago
I also hope for a good solution. I disagree about portability though. It is awesome to have different dialects of clojure, which are the same wherever possible, and vary only where they have to. The purpose of a different dialect is to take
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by programnature 14y ago
Very much looking forward to the rest of the posts, and the release of these projects :)
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by programnature 15y ago
It is totally ordered. The transactor is a single point of failure. However, since its only job is doing the transactions, the idea is it can be faster than a database server that does both the transactions and the queries.
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by programnature 15y ago
I would add the following *Transactions as first-class entities Transactions are just data like everything else, and can add facts about them like anything else. For example, who created the transaction. What did the database look like befo
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by programnature 15y ago
The problem with domain-specific systems like R is that, as software systems, you can't "hack" them far outside of their contraints. Integration into other systems (like the web, or robust big-data pipelines) can't be taken for granted. Doi
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by programnature 15y ago
Dude did you look at the link? The new features are all about bypassing that. You just give it the data, instead of a language-esque query. And there is a lot more UI too, for manipulating plots and such.
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Wolfram Alpha Pro Launched(wolframalpha.com)
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by programnature 15y ago
Not trying to refute anything. Just a passage that comes to mind when reading that opening sentence. Especially with the specific reference how that seems to be common occurrence with Lisp. In fact, you might argue that OP and PG are saying
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by programnature 15y ago
"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but
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by programnature 15y ago
I think a better formulation of the same concept is the following: Web is the new lowest common denominator. The lowest common denominator used to be the shell. The one thing you can always depend on being there, and with well-understood st
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by programnature 15y ago
Hadoop is an ops and usability disaster. Yet companies large and small are adopting it because it does "something people want". RDF and ontologies are just more data. Without computation, that data is not useful, and all the things one "cou
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by programnature 15y ago
Program or be programmed.

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