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I think it's more complicated than that. The projects that are getting the funding are usually the hard, technical ones, but that funding also supports better docs + more time for …

You're in luck, because (assuming the scans are in a compatible format), this is exactly what 3D Slicer was designed for.

Who is doing more than a couple rounds of interviews outside of (pardon the scare quotes) "tech companies"? Has anyone run into, say, a bank pulling 4+ rounds of interviews, or is …

Bronson and Pigott were a nice read, but it's unclear where Föll is getting most of his conjecture from because they certainly don't talk about it. Frankly, the whole piece smacks …

Trying to interpret individual radicals of a character as standalone components using their original meaning is enticing, but more often than not incorrect. For example, the charac…

It does not, and any discussion of whether certain public health measures should've been implemented should take that into consideration. Toronto-area hospitals were literally send…

Canadaland did a great series on the pathology of Vancouver real estate recently [1]. TL;DL there is no consensus on the root cause, but the usual suspects of bureaucracy, NIMBYism…

Vancouver may have "no industry" relative to SV, but it is a veritable black hole for tech on the west coast of Canada. The same rat race of high-skilled, well-paying jobs only bei…

Saying all the underdog competitors should team up is a nice idea, but as anyone who has seen how the standards sausage is made (or, indeed, has tried something similar) will tell …

> Do you think AMD should solve every problem CUDA solves for their customers too? They had no choice. Getting a bunch of HPC people to completely rewrite their code for a differen…

I've mentioned this on other forums, but it would help to have some kind of easily visible, public tracker for this progress. Even a text file, set of GitHub issues or project boar…

Google may have coined the term (not sure about this), but it's far from their own thing [1]. PWA should've been a blanket term for a set of standards and guidelines for developing…

Transformers.jl and TextAnalysis.jl already provide quite a bit of functionality for NLP, though to my knowledge neither makes use of RNNs. You may be interested in commenting on h…

The community staying very active has been the biggest factor here IMO. The predecessor to the current Definitive Edition, the rather disastrous (engine-wise, not content-wise) HD …

From TFA: > We’ll also be hosting a Q&A session 02.08., 10PM UTC (03.08., 12AM CEST | 8AM AEST). Jeremy will be there, too. Meeting link will follow soon. My understanding is that …

Having tried fastai for a "serious" research project and helped (just a bit) towards FastAI.jl development, here's my take: > motivation behind this is unclear. Julia currently has…

https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/Chain.jl would probably work there, but you're not the only one who would like to see this in the language/stdlib itself.

For sure, I didn't mean to imply they weren't looking at compute too! https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion is another example of the shared compute vision. What I was trying …

As much as many of us would like it to be, the kind of data science work you see Scala used for is a pretty small part of what Julia is used for. I think a big part of that is beca…

Regarding RL, did you look at https://juliareinforcementlearning.org/ ? I haven't used it myself, so it would be interesting to know where it's lacking.

To your point about static analysis, https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl appears far more capable than comparable systems for other dynamic languages.

I'd like to see those as well, with the caveat that I've yet to see a language implement some of them performantly (e.g. arguments against higher-kinded types in Rust).

Arrow is getting support for N-d arrays, so if anything they're expanding in that area (which is exciting). I don't think they're interested in creating a universal libarrow though…

> Revise.jl inside the REPL is annoying as hell to use when you start messing with structs. > And Revise.jl kind of proves the fact that incremental compilation is entirely possibl…