InfinityByTen

There are tons of solvers, there're a lot of libraries and SciPy, Fenics, most likely even MATLAB, Octave, FreeFEM++ all of them use LAPACK and BLAS (at least in their most performant flavours), all calling eventually the FORTRAN subroutines written decades ago. And yes, the tricky parts of this is also that how Fortran and C store 2D arrays, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-_and_column-major_order.

So no one re-writes their own stuff, unless for academic purposes. I was on the verge of trying to extend the SciPy library to support block matrices 4 years ago for my thesis, but was able to work around it because duck-typing had generalised quite enough to encapsulate even that.

Sparse and Full matrices have a totally different data structure. hence the difference in the solvers. Engineers and Mathematicians that want more performant solving, rely more on the modelling of the problem (physically or mathematically) than improving the solvers.The other option is hardware-assisted optimization. For full solvers, I suppose the AI/ML folk have come up with TPUs, also because they have different tolerances for floating point calculations in classifying an image compared with launching a satellite on Mars.

I have seen these discussions before. I have seen people who will cherish the times gone by and the skills of the good ol' days becoming extinct - calligraphy, letter writing, book handling... I have seen people with the progressive mind saying that: what's not needed anymore, or what's not going to be needed soon, why even bother!? If it's dying, let it! It's evolution! It's Science! It's Progress!

The problems is both things. There are people who have gone too far with the science and tech craze, "the silicon valley bigwigs" and feel that in the end it wasn't really the tech that made the cut for them or they did see people lose out because they didn't have the other bits figured, despite being wonderful at their niche. The other people are the ones who feel that the world is surrendering to the tech and there is no place where tech won't go. It's better to keep catching up with the times than being left out in dilly-dallying over notions, ideas, philosophies, arts and the like.

My concern is both are narrow ways of thinking by themselves. Yes, tech will be everywhere. Yes it is getting important and you won't find a job if you don't know tech etiquette, soon enough at least. But it won't make the cut without understanding people, tendencies, perspectives, arts, histories. New skills are nice and important, but then old values and ways of doing things have inspirations. You can't "disrupt" everything by "the new way of thinking". You will end up destroying a lot of places. Forget that there's a panacea, "the one unified theory", "one ring to rule them all". That's good for a fantasy movie conveying a few ideas, but incomplete when it comes to real life.

"Like patterns or open source, there is considerable theology in the characterizations of agile methods, and I don’t wish to get caught up in such theological debates"

Finally I see a sane stance somewhere :) This article is pure Gold on a lot of fronts and seems to have also aged decently well.

Finally I read a comment on a platform and I can listen to ideas and deep understanding. Thanks for sharing that interview!! You won Naval a fan already :)

Nobel in Literature, Peace and Economics are political statements.

Nuclear tech required a rethink. So maybe yes?

Deep Fake with its revenge porn wasn't enough to give this a second thought?

This is a news? I thought the Publish or Perish idiom made it obvious.

2 weeks of effort goes into doing something and you spend 2 months of writing a paper of the slightest of the result. Many of these papers introduce an infinitesimal increment to knowledge, at best and you can tell how long would it have taken to get it working. And this is Numerical Mathematics. There are clans of Mathematicians who just go around citing each other. And a quality paper comes around every 5 years or so.

You are absolutely correct that there are nuances, which is exactly what I wanted to bring to fore. There is politics, terror and even economics: both strategic, in the region and hidden in terms of the weaponry.

Thus, desperate times, desperate situations, desperate measures. If you feel it is harsh, I prompt you to consider the case when separatists would use the means to spread rumours, fake news and instigate mobs. We know that they are capable of that and the scrapping of these bills signifies essentially a stop to their powers. Better to nip it in the bud than starting violent protests which need more physical force to keep the law and order intact.

Guess you were too busy with your opinionated columns to look at the video marked as a reference.

" because there happen to be terrorists, separatists, and/or rebels in it". You agree? This is to counter the spread of fake news, rumours and minimize the stone pelting. Because all of those things would happen in a place where these elements are growing by the day, infiltrated and brainwashed. and then if you use tear gas, pellet guns and other means to slow down mobs, then people will cry again. I'd rather have people cry like this than some people getting injured, hurt or worst killed, because they became a part of a mob that became impossible to control.

I don't think the Government seeks to make this a lockdown permanent and felicitate any kind of suppression. There's a provision for government the and the place can continue to have it's own powers, just that it can't become bigger than the country itself, which had become the norm.

The context does justify certain restraining measures. What sort of argument is it that claims if you're wrapping someone in a blanket in the summer, it's a crime, not looking at the fact that the person is burning? You have to take certain measures till the situation calms down and people come to the level of responding instead of reacting. If this becomes a constant thing like for years or decades like the two bills had become, then yes, I see your concern. A temporal restrain cannot be exaggerated to "war crimes".

Really? Either you don't see the comments or maybe because you see orange on the site :D :D :D

BBC and Al-Jazeera are alleged to have used footage from inside POK and claiming it as from Srinagar. Also clips from within Kashmir valley have no evidence of protest against the revoked bills, rather a generic call for "Azadi"(Freedom). It is not clear if the protest is representation of ground reality.[Reference sadly only in Hindi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5w1BQCzi0]

Also the other protest accepted by India could be a different one altogether, hence pictured differently and was possibly an actual one which happened days after BBC released their video.

Lockdown in a terrorist, separatist and rebel location is a security measure more than a curbing of Freedom of speech. The region has been constitutionally provided for a democratic government, despite the split. This piece of information somehow passes through the crevices of fractured media into oblivion. China and Pakistan's stance is understandable since it is also a measure to tackle the Roadway China has been building through Pakistan to reach the ports and open up its trade routes. All of this with a funding of terrorism and extremism.