Occupation: physics, programming
Mail: vmagerya at g mail
Hey, I have my own chess with a textual UI which allows you to play against several beginner-level chess AI opponents: - Maia chess (https://maiachess.com), the human-like chess engine based on neural networks, -…
Years ago there was a thread like this one, and people suggested "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", just like they do here. So I tried that. Here's my account; I hope it will be useful to whoever reads it now…
For those of us that don't use Lisp (or Emacs+SLIME), and are stuck with Python/Julia/Lua/etc and Vim may I give a practical recommendation? The Vim-Slime plugin [1] is a half-decent way of making interactive…
Those gaps immediately catch your eye, don't they? Seeing them and thinking "what if there's something we are missing" is exactly what many particle physicists also think. This is why the existence of particles and…
> verified the existence of the Higgs As a related tangent: we have verified the existence of the Higgs, but only partially. What was so far measured was the interaction strength between Higgs and W bosons, Z bosons,…
I think the idea that scientific code should be judged by the same standards as production code is a bit unfair. The point when the code works the first time is when an industry programmer starts to refactor it --…
An interesting concern is that there often is no single piece of code that has produced the results of a given paper. Often it is a mixture of different (and evolving) versions of different scripts and programs, with…
As one point of comparison, SymPy is comically slow compared to Sage. This is mostly because SymPy is purely Python; Sage on the other hand uses its own derivative of GiNaC [1], Pynac [2], for its internal symbolic…
LEP was annihilating electrons with positrons; LHC does not, as it only accelerates protons. FCC will have the option to do both: the plan includes two separate pipes in the same tunnel, one for protons, one for…
I am continuously surprised by the amount of work zig committers manage to put out every release. It is actually inspiring. How do they get to appear so productive? Anyway, here's a nitpick. In this release they've…
From just glancing at a few articles, this site is a treasure trove of references to highly readable explanations on a variety of fairly advanced topics. In fact, just the links to Wilczek's grand unification overview…
Scientific Linux 6.10 has make 3.81, CentOS 7.7 has 3.82. These long-term-support distros have old software by their nature, and sometimes you're just stuck with one of them unfortunately.
I have used this in one of my projects, but in the end had to abandon it: the problem is that Guile itself requires GNU make during build, which creates a circular dependency, and thus building it with e.g. FreeBSD…
> So what are they gonna do for 25 years? Run 2 of the LHC ended in 2018. Currently the experimentalists are busy analyzing that data, and the theoreticians are busy improving the theoretical prediction precision to the…
Is this a US thing? In Ukraine, no-one is weird. No-one is a geek, or a nerd -- there aren't even equivalent words in our language. Nobody thinks less of you if you're smart, shy, or talk about transistors on occasion.…
Aside from the license issue, it also helps that the guy who maintains Sendmail in the FreeBSD sources is Gregory Neil Shapiro, vice president and CTO of Sendmail Inc.
Difficult, but not impossible. Qi and Typed Scheme are two examples.
What about kelvin hobles?
"Hooker news" is obviously a made up example. A real example would be "kelvin hobles". Google correctly guesses "calvin (and) hobbes", DDG and Bing do not.
Does anyone have an insight as to why Google Trends [1] show that FreeBSD is more searched for in Russia and Ukraine than e.g. in US? [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=freebsd
> If you ever got to being a candidate for, say, a national senior-school physics competition, you'd be transferred to region's best teachers. They would train you like a circus dog [...] but it wouldn't make you…
> Bigloo, Chicken, and some others even have hygienic macros off by default due to the overhead, and recommend that you use define-macro whenever possible. Not anymore for Chicken! Chicken 4.0 switched to…
More than 10 years ago Jeffrey Mark Siskind posted micro benchmark [1] of his aggressively optimizing Stalin Scheme compiler versus then-current GCC. Stalin produced code 21 time faster than GCC. I do not know why this…
Whoa. Dnepropetrovsk.
> Page generated automatically at 23:49 on 05 July 2009 Can you specify the timezone? Also, how often is the page updated?
Hey, I have my own chess with a textual UI which allows you to play against several beginner-level chess AI opponents: - Maia chess (https://maiachess.com), the human-like chess engine based on neural networks, -…
Years ago there was a thread like this one, and people suggested "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", just like they do here. So I tried that. Here's my account; I hope it will be useful to whoever reads it now…
For those of us that don't use Lisp (or Emacs+SLIME), and are stuck with Python/Julia/Lua/etc and Vim may I give a practical recommendation? The Vim-Slime plugin [1] is a half-decent way of making interactive…
Those gaps immediately catch your eye, don't they? Seeing them and thinking "what if there's something we are missing" is exactly what many particle physicists also think. This is why the existence of particles and…
> verified the existence of the Higgs As a related tangent: we have verified the existence of the Higgs, but only partially. What was so far measured was the interaction strength between Higgs and W bosons, Z bosons,…
I think the idea that scientific code should be judged by the same standards as production code is a bit unfair. The point when the code works the first time is when an industry programmer starts to refactor it --…
An interesting concern is that there often is no single piece of code that has produced the results of a given paper. Often it is a mixture of different (and evolving) versions of different scripts and programs, with…
As one point of comparison, SymPy is comically slow compared to Sage. This is mostly because SymPy is purely Python; Sage on the other hand uses its own derivative of GiNaC [1], Pynac [2], for its internal symbolic…
LEP was annihilating electrons with positrons; LHC does not, as it only accelerates protons. FCC will have the option to do both: the plan includes two separate pipes in the same tunnel, one for protons, one for…
I am continuously surprised by the amount of work zig committers manage to put out every release. It is actually inspiring. How do they get to appear so productive? Anyway, here's a nitpick. In this release they've…
From just glancing at a few articles, this site is a treasure trove of references to highly readable explanations on a variety of fairly advanced topics. In fact, just the links to Wilczek's grand unification overview…
Scientific Linux 6.10 has make 3.81, CentOS 7.7 has 3.82. These long-term-support distros have old software by their nature, and sometimes you're just stuck with one of them unfortunately.
I have used this in one of my projects, but in the end had to abandon it: the problem is that Guile itself requires GNU make during build, which creates a circular dependency, and thus building it with e.g. FreeBSD…
> So what are they gonna do for 25 years? Run 2 of the LHC ended in 2018. Currently the experimentalists are busy analyzing that data, and the theoreticians are busy improving the theoretical prediction precision to the…
Is this a US thing? In Ukraine, no-one is weird. No-one is a geek, or a nerd -- there aren't even equivalent words in our language. Nobody thinks less of you if you're smart, shy, or talk about transistors on occasion.…
Aside from the license issue, it also helps that the guy who maintains Sendmail in the FreeBSD sources is Gregory Neil Shapiro, vice president and CTO of Sendmail Inc.
Difficult, but not impossible. Qi and Typed Scheme are two examples.
What about kelvin hobles?
"Hooker news" is obviously a made up example. A real example would be "kelvin hobles". Google correctly guesses "calvin (and) hobbes", DDG and Bing do not.
Does anyone have an insight as to why Google Trends [1] show that FreeBSD is more searched for in Russia and Ukraine than e.g. in US? [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=freebsd
> If you ever got to being a candidate for, say, a national senior-school physics competition, you'd be transferred to region's best teachers. They would train you like a circus dog [...] but it wouldn't make you…
> Bigloo, Chicken, and some others even have hygienic macros off by default due to the overhead, and recommend that you use define-macro whenever possible. Not anymore for Chicken! Chicken 4.0 switched to…
More than 10 years ago Jeffrey Mark Siskind posted micro benchmark [1] of his aggressively optimizing Stalin Scheme compiler versus then-current GCC. Stalin produced code 21 time faster than GCC. I do not know why this…
Whoa. Dnepropetrovsk.
> Page generated automatically at 23:49 on 05 July 2009 Can you specify the timezone? Also, how often is the page updated?