Grigori Perelman rejected the Fields Medal and the Clay prize among other things for what he considered unjust decisions and lack of ethics and proper attribution to other mathematicians. I find it surprising that he…
Should you learn history if it is already written in a book? Should you live if others are already living?
The Statue of Greed, located appropriately at a Casino
Happy paying Mathematica customer here. I think this is great. A lot of people want to have a free alternative. For me, the real value of this is the creation of a community and setting the foundation for something…
Reading AI PRs reminds me of Monty Python's holy grenade: "And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt…
Why have the powerful not completely killed the rest of the people? A. Ethics/Morals B. Power balance C. People are a valuable resource I think we are all a little concerned it is C. It's a grim thought and I'm…
That's like 4 times the ESA budget, and still insignificant compared to the money poured into AI. Several companies could cover that budget with quarterly profits.
Yes, it has the authority. There are plenty of EU regulations that states must obey, from fundamental rights to taxation.
Apple makes excellent hardware (laptop, phone, mini...) to the point I'm willing to pay more for it, but I would prefer a lot to customize my SW. And so I avoid their hardware.
Everybody chooses a favorite depending on their domain. A function executes, and some error happens: - Return error value: try to handle the error ASAP. The closer to the error the more detailed the information. Higher…
One reason in Julia for having an organization with multiple repositories is how unnecessary is in Julia to have big packages. It is better to have smaller more focused packages and combine them as necessary. Julia…
In some fields throwing away and rewriting is the standard, and it works, more or less. I'm thinking about scientific/engineering software: prototype in Python or Matlab and convert to C or C++ for…
People adapt to the circumstances. A lot of Python uses are no longer about fast iteration on the REPL. Instead of that we are shipping Python to execute in clusters on very long running jobs or inside servers. It's not…
Same here. I just use https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm and https://github.com/suonlight/multi-vterm
I'm a developer and: - I hate ORMs, they are the source for a lot of obscure errors behind layers and layers of abstractions. - I prefer analytical APIs for technical reasons, not just the language. Reasons: - I can…
According to Wikipedia [1] we consume 9717 Mtoe or equivalently 408 TJ (per year, although it is not explictely stated, which I find annoying). The earth moment of inertia is about I=8e37 kg m2 [2] The energy extracted…
Sometimes I wonder if we are going to be the unkillable plague that takes over the universe. Or maybe we will dissappear in a blink. It's hard to know, we don't have any reference point except ourselves.
Nice book. For another old but excellent math book I recommend Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert. No gutenberg remake I'm afraid, maybe because of the numerous (and incredibly high quality) illustrations.
I guess because mathematical formulas usually use single letters for symbols. It is so common that you end using several different alphabets, lower/upper case and even calligraphic variations. Of course it doesn't scale…
From TFA: While the focus has been on olives, the bacterium’s ability to infect such a broad spectrum of plants makes it an agricultural nightmare, particularly in regions where multiple crops are grown in close…
I have a Mathematica license and at the same time find this project quite cool (and I'm a SW engineer). I would be surprised if mathics developers are not Mathematica users.
Jesus, as a person, most probably existed. That's what historians think at least. You can rightfully doubt he was a god.
Yes, we are always trying to have some effects on other people's behavior, but I don't think most people would say it's marketing. And maybe most important, quantity is a quality on itself. So, me as an individual…
Boarding planes is the proof of our failure as a species. Something so easy made so complicated.
We all pay, you find harder to pay in attention instead of money, but either way it's a cost on society
Grigori Perelman rejected the Fields Medal and the Clay prize among other things for what he considered unjust decisions and lack of ethics and proper attribution to other mathematicians. I find it surprising that he…
Should you learn history if it is already written in a book? Should you live if others are already living?
The Statue of Greed, located appropriately at a Casino
Happy paying Mathematica customer here. I think this is great. A lot of people want to have a free alternative. For me, the real value of this is the creation of a community and setting the foundation for something…
Reading AI PRs reminds me of Monty Python's holy grenade: "And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt…
Why have the powerful not completely killed the rest of the people? A. Ethics/Morals B. Power balance C. People are a valuable resource I think we are all a little concerned it is C. It's a grim thought and I'm…
That's like 4 times the ESA budget, and still insignificant compared to the money poured into AI. Several companies could cover that budget with quarterly profits.
Yes, it has the authority. There are plenty of EU regulations that states must obey, from fundamental rights to taxation.
Apple makes excellent hardware (laptop, phone, mini...) to the point I'm willing to pay more for it, but I would prefer a lot to customize my SW. And so I avoid their hardware.
Everybody chooses a favorite depending on their domain. A function executes, and some error happens: - Return error value: try to handle the error ASAP. The closer to the error the more detailed the information. Higher…
One reason in Julia for having an organization with multiple repositories is how unnecessary is in Julia to have big packages. It is better to have smaller more focused packages and combine them as necessary. Julia…
In some fields throwing away and rewriting is the standard, and it works, more or less. I'm thinking about scientific/engineering software: prototype in Python or Matlab and convert to C or C++ for…
People adapt to the circumstances. A lot of Python uses are no longer about fast iteration on the REPL. Instead of that we are shipping Python to execute in clusters on very long running jobs or inside servers. It's not…
Same here. I just use https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm and https://github.com/suonlight/multi-vterm
I'm a developer and: - I hate ORMs, they are the source for a lot of obscure errors behind layers and layers of abstractions. - I prefer analytical APIs for technical reasons, not just the language. Reasons: - I can…
According to Wikipedia [1] we consume 9717 Mtoe or equivalently 408 TJ (per year, although it is not explictely stated, which I find annoying). The earth moment of inertia is about I=8e37 kg m2 [2] The energy extracted…
Sometimes I wonder if we are going to be the unkillable plague that takes over the universe. Or maybe we will dissappear in a blink. It's hard to know, we don't have any reference point except ourselves.
Nice book. For another old but excellent math book I recommend Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert. No gutenberg remake I'm afraid, maybe because of the numerous (and incredibly high quality) illustrations.
I guess because mathematical formulas usually use single letters for symbols. It is so common that you end using several different alphabets, lower/upper case and even calligraphic variations. Of course it doesn't scale…
From TFA: While the focus has been on olives, the bacterium’s ability to infect such a broad spectrum of plants makes it an agricultural nightmare, particularly in regions where multiple crops are grown in close…
I have a Mathematica license and at the same time find this project quite cool (and I'm a SW engineer). I would be surprised if mathics developers are not Mathematica users.
Jesus, as a person, most probably existed. That's what historians think at least. You can rightfully doubt he was a god.
Yes, we are always trying to have some effects on other people's behavior, but I don't think most people would say it's marketing. And maybe most important, quantity is a quality on itself. So, me as an individual…
Boarding planes is the proof of our failure as a species. Something so easy made so complicated.
We all pay, you find harder to pay in attention instead of money, but either way it's a cost on society