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NicolasL-S

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    Comment #40091470

    I've been dreaming of something like this for many years. Stata has many strengths. It has a ridiculously simple syntax, much of the data "cleaning" often happens under the radar, …

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    Comment #39534152

    Great work as always, especially the improvement in error messages.

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    Comment #38726595

    I think Stan Lee once said about programming languages: "With great power there must also come great binary size."

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    Comment #35894095

    I would be cautious saying Simulink has no Julia equivalent. This NASA engineer switched from Simulink to SciML and obtained a 15,000x speed up while his code went from 1000 lines …

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    Comment #34568298

    You don't have to. Just use Rcall. Of course R has been here longer. Eleven years after its creation, R had fewer than 500 packages. Julia was released in 2012 and today has over 7…

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    Comment #33929876

    > IME languages that are designed as general-purpose languages tend to be better than languages that are designed for niche purposes, even within those niches. The things that make…

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    Comment #33793087

    I would suggest adding a bunch of them as such: zig array + zig variable + zig for loop + zig programming language Also be careful with the break in the data in 2022.

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    Comment #33134878

    I'm guessing the choice made by Google went like: Option 1) Hire more staff to do a proper monitoring job on a per-video or per-channel basis. Option 2) Just demonetize every small…

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    Comment #33134748

    Thousands of channels were demonetized at once. Did you (or Google) checked them before passing judgement? Among those demonetized is Perun who makes neutral hour-long PowerPoint p…

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    Comment #32773248

    You should check out this case study of migrating Simulink to Julia at NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpqsmwlfY0 From Simulink to Julia, his code went from 1000 lines to 50…