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Don’t people google their newly coined acronyms? GRAPE is already Gradient-Ascent-Pulse-Engineering, which is arguably “machine learning” (optimal control)

Even better: Julia (although Fortran is pretty good!)

This script encapsulates my general philosophy for merging PRs on GitHub: they should be rebased onto the latest master, but be merged with an explicit merge commit

I wrote this plugin for Neovim to be able to edit Jupyter notebook .ipynb files directly in Neovim. The native format for notebooks is quasi-binary json. This plugin uses the jupyt…

Very much so. See https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/noteworthy-differenc... for some details

“Last week” is well within the 2-week return window.

I’m not sure I would consider the scientific computing that Julia targets a “tiny” niche. It’s worth remembering that Python is 30 years older than Julia, and Julia has only been i…

True, but C and Fortran have very different semantics that make them suitable for very different fields. In particular, C does not have great semantics for linear algebra. Also, C …

C++ and Rust don’t really have good semantics for scientific computing (linear algebra). They’re great for many other domains like “system’s programming”, where Fortran doesn’t com…

How has it “not panned out”? Julia has been in a useable state only for a few years, and is still rapidly developing. Prior to Julia 1.0, I would have said Fortran (which I have 15…

Is this affiliated with Juno the iOS Jupyter client?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

Not if the air that you need to breathe has a wet bulb temperature >35C

Right, but we're talking about being extremely close to the point where these will fail due to unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures

Yes, you can absolutely (and we will have to) mitigate hot temperatures with building design, but only up to the point where you have wet bulb temperatures >35C over several days. …

It’s much easier to heat something than to cool it. You can build a fire without any technology at all, but you can’t do anything about unsurvivable heat without a working power gr…

Has it “lost” preference? I was more under the impression that it just hasn’t yet gained as much popularity as it deserves based on its technical merits, due to being quite a young…

Although I'm technically not a native speaker, I consider myself completely fluent, and a competent writer. I still find Grammarly or similar services quite useful, even if just to…

Yeah, Grammarly is moving in the wrong direction for me. What I’d like to see is better integration with text editors etc, especially in a plain text environment. 99% of what I wri…

I got you covered: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/the-us-international-scientif...

Does anyone have a specific recommendation for a glass measuring cup that is safe to boil on a gas stove (like PYREX before they changed their glass)?

> Aside from maybe like a Hollywood editor […], I have no idea who these are for. That’s exactly who these are for

Cool. Thanks!