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ferdterguson··on On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return
Is that plus living expenses? I went to a large 'football school' type school which was not cheap, but tuition a hair under 8K for a semester.
ferdterguson··on [dead]
Lawyers, man, am I right?
ferdterguson··on Grenade: Deep Learning in Haskell
I've used Haskell a little. I understand the benefits of the type system from the perspective of something like a web app or libraries with abstractions. However, as someone who spends their days working on numerical code in Cython for research software, how would I actually leverage the type system in my numerical code? Would I ever leverage the power of the type system and define my own types?

It also seems like a terrible idea to use recursion to solve multidimensional array problems typically associated with loops and the indexing of those arrays.

ferdterguson··on The largest Git repo
IMO, VC comes down not to tracking what was actually done, but to creating snapshots of logical steps that are reasonable to roll back to and git bisect with.
ferdterguson··on How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
> Canada
ferdterguson··on Ask HN: Does native compilation still matter?
Totally ignores scientific applications, which there aren't enough supercomputing hours to go around for. NERSC's Cori, one of the top 3 supercomputers in the world, often takes a day to start a job.

Not to mention private companies developing software to analyze heaps of data from finance to web searches.

ferdterguson··on AI Playbook
Totally agree. As someone who does scientific modeling, fitting models is easy. Finding the model that correctly describes my problem and can be trained with existing or easily acquired input data is hard.
ferdterguson··on A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
I'm not a big fan of the GPL personally, but this is great!
ferdterguson··on Universities finally realize that Java is a bad intro programming language
I had the same struggles. Eventually I just went to pycharm, which is great and has full support for any environment you want.
ferdterguson··on Why I published in a predatory journal
SciPy did signed reviews for the 2017 conference the opposite reason. Obviously SciPy is not Science or Nature, but still. They cite the idea that if your review is tied for your name, you probably aren't going to do a crappy review because it will hurt your reputation. There's probably a balance.
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