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"Firstly, there are three main Python concurrency APIs, they are:" asyncio, threading, multiprocessing, ... oh, and concurrent.futures All kidding aside, I used the multiprocessing…

> Spreadsheets.com, for example, lets users dump almost anything into a cell. Drop a photo or a PDF into a cell and the product will immediately create a thumbnail, which you can t…

Speaking of math pages on Wikipedia ... and math text more generally Is it just me or are we horrible at teaching advanced math? Where are the examples (with actual numbers)? Where…

Does AMD have folks that you can reach out to regarding this? I know Intel has MKL and all the work around its own compiler for maximum speed. This seems like it should be trivial …

My c++ is not great (so it is hard for me to tell what is going on) and I'm used to OpenMP where my understanding has always been that you tend to get a single thread per processor…

It is not exactly clear to me what is going on with threads (I guess you are using all of them?). I haven't done too much in this space but anecdotally I've had better luck if my s…

Yes please! I like to search for examples of how to use libraries and often times the results are all the same exact call in forks or copies of the same code in multiple places. Pe…

I thought this would be referencing work by Nathan Myhrvold using a new type of reactor that supposedly runs on "spent" nuclear waste and in the event of power failure just stops r…

As someone that rarely works with Python lists, as opposed to numpy arrays, I was pleasantly surprised to see numpy does what I would expect in providing a mergesort option. I'm su…

Interesting take. I did not interpret their statement as vindication of being correct but rather that this version of events is a possibility that can't currently be dismissed.

Agreed. However my reaction when first hearing about the lab leak (middle of last year?) was that the leak stories were meant to be malicious/propaganda against China. I didn't tak…

Maybe somewhat off topic ... I don't sell anything on any App stores currently but I do like the idea of having some way of creating "applications" that are a bit more discoverable…

Wow, those are big performance differences (660 MB/s for fast-double vs 1042 MB/s for the 'newer' fast-float), although most of the numbers (for the different libraries being teste…

I'm curious as to what the biggest win in terms of speed was here (in terms of an approach, good lookup tables?). Also I'm curious how this compares to the many (?) JSON parsers th…

I thought my Garmin watch already did this and I thought Apple had differentiated itself with some sort of advanced ekg analysis. I feel like I'm missing something with this articl…

That was a great story about actually managing to debug a wireless problem. I wish there were better diagnostic tools commonly available that would clearly explain these things. I'…

I'm looking to host online science discussions primarily between a small group of people but with the potential for others to join to listen/comment/contribute. Right now the plan …

My introduction to Python (a long time ago) and "batteries included" was going to some random guys website to download all the compiled packages I needed. Thanks Christoph!

Besides focusing on language 1 vs language 2 I think the author is also highlighting just how hard it is for people to get started in any language. You mentioned R/Rstudio .... I j…

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Apparently this has nothing to do with the cable company ...?

The function bit has always confused me. I tend to write code with lots of functions/modules/classes for handling various aspects of the analysis and I just don't understand how th…

Yikes! Good to know. I just wonder if there has been any official mea culpa announcement or if I (along with many other people) are just suffering from sort of selection bias. Did …

Has the iPhone screen durability improved at all? It seems like they are (or were?) extremely susceptible to damage from dropping and I always took that as a sign that Apple wanted…

What about learning? Would an update with more data and updated coefficients require going back to the FDA?