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Zeolites are better

I went to a small liberal arts school where the IT department recruited CS students under work study to build the systems. It’s a good learning experience for students to be involv…

Eastern Washington has a lot of hot desert

I think UV and Ruff showed us how much better Python tooling could be. Just setting a higher bar has move. OS forward

Sometimes I want coffee before I make my coffee

I would be surprised if the code was hidden from other people engineers.

We have tons of space on earth. Cooling in space would be so expensive.

Thank you for the explanation

Could the rust code be transpired to readable C?

There’s this Gitlab incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc

This author assumes that open sourcing a package only delivers value if is added as a dependency. Publicly sharing code with a permissive license is still useful and a radical idea…

A lot of times those 5% people go blind :/

I hope humans are like Cyanobacteria in that in destroying the environment we create the substrate for something grander.

What language do you think they should have based Mojo off of? I think Python syntax is great for tensor manipulation.

The issue with R is that there is too much dsl. This is great for one-off analysis but makes building a cohesive large code base really difficult.

I know about ghostship, but I don’t immediately associate the word ghost ship with that disaster. I’ve always thought of them as the spooky abandoned ships that float around and I …

One of the best books I’ve ever read is The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book by Richard Rhodes. If you want an extremely in-depth history of the science and people behind Manhattan p…

I wonder how many nuclear power plants run on windows xp.

This is really interesting. I think force fields in molecular dynamics have underwent a similar NN revolution. You train your NN on the output of expensive calculations to replace …

I think the biggest problem with fintech is that the financial system is already decentralized, and full of tech. It really just seems like it involves using unregulated technology…

I worked an MIT programmer who bragged about the Scheme curriculum. He was also the worst programmer that I’ve worked with. He really liked clojure and would constantly complain ab…

My process control theory textbook has a chapter on neural networks and a lot of the language in control theory has an AI like tinge to it. I think this AI language is native to co…

OSS, even MIT licensed, embodies an radical idea that is counter to how most other engineering fields operate. The software required to design a chemical plant can cost 60K+ per ye…