abakus

235 karma · joined December 14, 2016

Simple is better than complex.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

https://xkcd.com/1987/

abakus··on Are black holes made of dark energy?

Where did the dark energy come from? Before collapse these are just normal big stars, we cannot detect dark energy from them, but after explosion they suddenly become GEODE teemed with dark energy? I am a bit confused.

abakus··on Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python

Kudos to using toml for configuration.

abakus··on 150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video]

One step closer to the mars.

abakus··on YAML: Probably not so great after all

YAML is horrible. Toml is much better. Even Json is not that messy.

abakus··on Statistics with Julia [pdf]

I find Julia's .> , .==, .*, ./ (dots for element-by-element ufunc)... really ugly. Numpy's design is cleaner and better.

abakus··on The Ruby Style Guide

How about 1 space indentation? Just to be able to squeeze even more stuff into the 80 char limit? 0 space is a bit too extreme :)

abakus··on US has underestimated Huawei, says founder

Just FYI:

Huawei is one of the first companies that promoted the "996" schedule. https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

Huawei started the trend of laying off engineers once they reach 35 years old in China.

abakus··on AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

Hey, but isn't TLO a ZERG player?

abakus··on Pandas dropping Python 2 support

Time to move forward. Python 2 is so 2010.

abakus··on How to Version-Control Jupyter Notebooks

But you still don't need Notebook, Cell evaluation is all you need, which can be done without all the notebook hassle.

abakus··on How to Version-Control Jupyter Notebooks

Just write python scripts instead in the first place. Import to Jupyter if you really, really need the notebook UI.

abakus··on Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?

10k loc is small enough to refactor by yourself in your not so busy work hours

abakus··on OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]

At the current state, openai five stands no chance against stronger teams (eg liquid lgd) of TI8.

abakus··on Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?

Ms word.

abakus··on The Xi Text Engine CRDT

This editor is probably gonna be banned in China if it got noticed by the government. Hell they banned Winnie the Pooh

abakus··on CharmPy – A high-level parallel and distributed programming framework

On the other hand, it follows the Numpy, Scipy's convention of using py as suffix instead of prefix.

abakus··on 1/0 = 0

But this is not for man of industry!

abakus··on MkDocs 1.0

The proliferation of yaml is rather unfortunate.

abakus··on How Numba and Cython speed up Python code

They usually cannot improve carefully optimized numpy operations, nor GPU operations. The use cases are thus limited.

abakus··on Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell

This. A lot of GPU deep learning libs depend on CUDA, cuDNN, which is not solved by pipenv / virtualenv, BUT is actually handled by conda.

abakus··on [dead]

Merit, tech skill based please.

abakus··on The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

But the whole point of this discussion is that you should probably duplicate as many times as needed if it helps to avoid wrong abstraction.

abakus··on Line Breaking (2014)

It is almost a non problem for Chinese text: words are mono spaced squares.

abakus··on Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test

I know the Dark Matter Theory is very successful at explaining lots of phenomenons of cosmological physics. Nevertheless, it always reminds me of the Aether Theory.

abakus··on Japan's Ninja Shortage [audio]

In contrast, the supply of shaolin monks has always been steady

abakus··on The Power of Positive People

Also they tend to downvote comments that do carry weight, so from this perspecitve, they are not that positive after all.

abakus··on Nagini: A Static Verifier for Python [pdf]

THis. I think the type hint system adds so much visual noise it starts to look like perl. When an attempt to build huge (100k+) project with Python failes, it is not because of the duck typing, but simply because Python is not designed for such use cases.

abakus··on Simple, correct, fast: in that order

Apparently everybody knows "correctness" comes first. But that is the whole point of this article: It argues that complexity will reduce correctness, and thus simple should come first.

Please NOTE that I am not saying that I agree or disagree with this article.

abakus··on Writing Iterators in Julia 0.7

Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly.

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