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Working as a software engineer using C, C++, Python, Scheme on simulation and optimization tools and applications in the meterology/satellite data processing/atmospheric sciences domain. I'm fond of the Lisp family of languages, and am currently working on Scheme-bindings for our modeling, simulation, and analysis tools.
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Comment · 4 years ago
That’s just recursion
Comment · 5 years ago
I think the “fringe” comes from the theory that cosmic inflation occurred before the BB
Comment · 5 years ago
Perhaps he just meant IR sensors? Also, I wonder whether UV sensors would be helpful.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do you even know what “free speech” means?
Comment · 6 years ago
What do you dispute in his post?
Comment · 7 years ago
IIRC, the US Army Corps of Engineers also built/repaired the levees in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Comment · 8 years ago
Language implementation-wise, can anyone explain why/how Julia is able to get close to C-level performance? Is it doing some extra steps under the hood (JIT compilation?) that Python and R aren't doing?
Comment · 8 years ago
> * Restrict shallow work to 2 hours (after 2 hours, say no to everything shallow)

Except when the initial classification of a task as “shallow” is incorrect, and it actually should’ve been “deep” (although, this shouldn’t happen too often, except when it does happen).

Comment · 8 years ago
Sometimes I lay in bed at night thinking about the deficiency I haven't had time to address or that isn't a current priority, or the obscure bug I found a while ago that is laying in wait ... then I end up taking a melatonin capsule because my brain won't stop trying to plan/reorganize my next few tasks to squeeze in enough time to solve these issues.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm going to guess and say he was just borrowing a current, in-the-news hashtag and applying it to this situation. In other words, he was just joking around.
Comment · 8 years ago
For me, it's when I open my .emacs file and start working on my personal TODO items. The last time I ended up writing some elisp functions to make adding code comments/documentation easier and to auto-generate project layouts and source code skeleton files.
Comment · 8 years ago
Regarding the "smearing" concept, how does that square with the formation of neutron stars and white dwarfs? Those objects are incredibly dense because they're composed mostly (?) of nuceei or neutrons, respectively.
Comment · 8 years ago
I guess I'm just shocked that the surgeon could offer that level of assurance about something like that.
Comment · 8 years ago
Why would previous versions of Python3 (e.g., 3.5, 3.6) not perform as well as 2.7? What about Python3 makes it slower? Is it a language design issue?

We’re in the process of migrating several keras/TensorFlow-based projects to 3.6, and I’m struggling to get my emacs environment setup to handle Python 2 and 3 code simultaneously.

Comment · 8 years ago
Using a web app requires one to upload their file 100% of the time. Using a local app requires one, I'd expect, to upload their file 0% of the time.

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