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Relevant: some interesting insight into the inhumanity of it all https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/jeff-bezo...

There's no such thing as an "immune booster". The immune system is incredibly complex and nuanced, and there isn't a knob (or 10) that you can tweak to turn it up or down. It exist…

Try therapy and, if necessary, medication. Both of those have completely turned my life around. Things are still shitty sometimes (esp. during Covid), but way better than a few yea…

The classification is done because rogue planets etc. tell us things about the process of solar system and planetary formation. Yeah nature tends to have a continuum of things, but…

I think emergence and complexity are important topics here. It's important that we actually understand how the pieces come together though. Maybe that's a place for functional prog…

Wonderful!!! Can you point me to any textbooks/resources that go into more depth on this (or if that's too specific, dynamical systems in general at the early graduate level)?

Something I've had trouble finding resources for is how to apply probabilistic/Bayesian techniques and thinking to chaotic dynamical systems. People keep telling me "Look up MCMC" …

Anyone care to compare this to Clojurescript?

Hy got my attention a while ago but I haven't played with it yet. Would you find yourself turning back to Python due to missing/annoying features? And is there an easy way to turn …

Leisure time etc. is very important to creativity and productivity as well. There's a lot of studies that I'm too lazy to link to, but you can find them pretty easily.

Julia seems to get around this by making macro syntax explicit [1]: e.g. the macro "code_native" is used as @code_native (expr) This makes macro wizardry easier to spot, but restri…

From what I understand, this relates closely to the "Lisp Curse"

People have been floating the idea of doing this for the life sciences too, where the cost of performing an experiment can be very high (animals, enzymes, local permitting and lega…

Under any other administration I'd support this (i still do, provided the motivation is legitimate anti-trust concerns). But it's pretty obvious that the cheeto prince just doesn't…

It does tend to be the case in the last years. Being affiliated with the party of Trump and McConnell is a choice, and means condoning their behavior to a certain extent. You can b…

Is the map accurate a few stars out of the sun? Star concentration seems to be higher near the sun. Or is that just something done for visualization purposes?

Maybe you meant something slightly different, but I will agree with other comments that this wouldn't hamper progress. Most people don't enjoy doing nothing for protracted periods …

My experience has been the opposite: things have been much easier and faster to set up in Julia. Yes, "time to first plot" is annoying after you update the plot package, but that's…

I would like it to be multithreaded and for Org mode to have some more UI features (and I think a lot of people would - at least the former). From what I understand it's really har…

Who wants to write the next generation of the Emacs concept in Julia (and maybe Rust)? (mostly kidding but I would like to see it and work on it if there's people who wanna do it)

I think Numpy made it easier for people to integrate with a ton of open source libraries. Since everything is proprietary and the users are in a few specific niches, Matlab can't b…

Theoretically Julia is better for scientific computing, the only issue is its package ecosystem isn't as mature as Python's. But it's growing incredibly fast and there have already…

Maybe they're trying to promote a move from Matlab (which is close to exclusively used in a lot of academic fields) to Python, and not to Julia. Or maybe that's too far? Either way…