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fishmaster··on OCaml is 25
There's also the issue with the non-existent unicode support.
fishmaster··on Messenger Comparison – Threema, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
I tried Wire and was a bit underwhelmed to be honest. It looks and feels old. I'm much more inclined to use Threema.
fishmaster··on Messenger Comparison – Threema, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
Care to point out any inaccuracies?
fishmaster··on Buildings made with fungi could live, grow, and then biodegrade
Fungi are one thing I both don't really understand and find extremely fascinating. If anyone has recommendations for comprehensive books or other materials for laymen I'd be grateful.
fishmaster··on Julia 1.6 Highlights
That is very cool.
fishmaster··on Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
> Maybe the most powerful of any fully statically typed language?

Compared to Haskell, Ocaml, Scala, F#, ...? Writing it like a dynamically typed language is standard for full type inference.

fishmaster··on Work events, Zoom Lunches and other forced social activities are driving me nuts
Is it during work time? Great. No? Aight, imma head out.
fishmaster··on Julia: A Post-Mortem
> Julia — odd language

What a profound criticism. If data scientists can't use Julia then they're not great data scientists - you have RCall and PyCall, Flux, Knet, MLJ, plotting libraries, etc. It has built-in and user-defined types, threads, multiple dispatch, ...

"Please don't think that Julia is only useful for 1. custom units 2. custom GPU kernels 3. Custom array types 4. custom bayesian priors. 5. AD through custom types 6. Task based parallelism 7. symbolic gradients with modeling toolkit 8. Agent based modeling 9. physics informed neural networks 10. abstract tables types ..."

fishmaster··on Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
Does that use the corpus from the article?
fishmaster··on Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
Me too. Alas, I can't do it myself.
fishmaster··on The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption
The chihuahua flies at noon.
fishmaster··on Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma
> but it does not imply "bad person liking thing -> thing is bad".

It does imply this if it's in the exact context of the Gestapo and Stasi and surveillance technology.

fishmaster··on Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma
"Tag the insurgents"
fishmaster··on Julia: A Post-Mortem
... yes?
fishmaster··on Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
Are you doing your NLP with Flux?
fishmaster··on Julia: A Post-Mortem
> they should have just created a new language from scratch

God, please not another one with new tools, new libraries, etc.

fishmaster··on Symbolics.jl: A Modern Computer Algebra System for a Modern Language
"Please don't think that Julia is only useful for 1. custom units 2. custom GPU kernels 3. Custom array types 4. custom bayesian priors. 5. AD through custom types 6. Task based parallelism 7. symbolic gradients with modeling toolkit 8. Agent based modeling 9. physics informed neural networks 10. abstract tables types ..."
fishmaster··on Woolly Mammoth Revival
Woolly Mammoth Revival would be a great band name.
fishmaster··on Not Lisp again (2009)
It's not the same and it's not represented as strings in Lisp, but I'm not going to commit further. You can read up on homoiconicity and Lisp on the internet, then you will see the difference.
fishmaster··on Not Lisp again (2009)
Not true, SBCL definitely has TCO.
fishmaster··on Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo
I use german providers such as GMX and Tutanota.
fishmaster··on US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing
Yeah, because those drones only kill 'violent criminals', not also civilians. Also, these 'violent criminals' have a right for a fair process, otherwise it's just murder - which it is.
fishmaster··on Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
> Their bonuses are linked to company performance

As history shows this isn't really true.

fishmaster··on Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration
Definitely false, I noticed the same thing. It's the hair for most women. Most of my female friends confirmed, sadly.
fishmaster··on Don't Mess with Backprop: Doubts about Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
There's also Nengo (https://www.nengo.ai/).
fishmaster··on Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
Usually as long as I develop I have structs that I change inside a small module, then I can recompile just the module and access the new struct, e.g. for neural networks.

It's not perfect but it's something.

fishmaster··on Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
You can use RCall to use R from Julia: https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
fishmaster··on Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
> even just redefining a struct field requires restarting the interpreter

It really doesn't if you use a module.

fishmaster··on Show HN: "Programming Algorithms in Lisp” Book
Advent of Code is pretty good with CL.
fishmaster··on NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy
This is what I mean with it being more natural and elegant in Julia. Also, "@code_warntype" is incredibly useful for efficient code.
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