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People migrate -- they always bring their DNA with them and their language. No? The connections between these have been studied for a long time -- for example, this popular book wa…

I still use Julia a lot and still think it is the best bet for a dynamic language with acceptable speed. I don't work on many OSS projects anymore, so I'm not an active contributor…

Given you're referring to me and my career, can you explain what you mean about "worked on large community Python projects"? I don't see that text on the page you're citing. Is it …

It seems more interesting to discuss the implied underlying situation here than focus on any individual actor's tone. It seems from the interaction that a part of IBM has (1) taken…

Have you met any IC8+/D1+ working for Meta in the US?

Any chance this could be shared somewhere that's not Slideshare?

> Not a lot of people realize that Pandas was inspired by R, and in particular the Tidyverse model of handling rectangular data frames, created originally by Hadley Wickham. Can yo…

Does the article you linked not show that a loop is 10x slower than vectorization for computing square roots? The fact that 10x is better than the 60x slowdown for vapply isn't rea…

Those inequalities often produce confidence intervals that are excessively conservative.

Julia's broadcasting syntax depends on having Julia-style compilation to be efficient. It's not clear to me Python could ever provide the same behavior.

This seems pretty off-base to me. A lot of folks with PhD's in physics are working in industry. And a lot of the folks working on distributed systems don't have PhD's in that field…

I imagine one factor is that there are lots of OSS projects that are simultaneously startups in the data space these days.

As others have said, I agree that you should seek professional help and find a way to re-evaluate your thinking about your career. From this post, it seems like you've gotten stuck…

The relational model's type system is contained inside of this work as the schema component.

I think this is a genuine possibility given that the poster describes themself as an L6, whereas a FB engineer would typically refer to themself as E6 or IC6.

If you work through the math for CUPED, you'll see that only the aggregate correlation term can be interpreted as being "per-unit" -- all of the other terms in the equation are the…

Negative zero was introduced because of branch cuts: https://people.freebsd.org/~das/kahan86branch.pdf

This comment seems a bit odd given that the connections between physical neurons are qualitatively very dissimilar from the connections in artificial neural networks, so invoking t…

I believe NFLX doesn't hire the first two entry levels of engineers that other firms have.

Not the other way around? My experience is that the US uses 1-based indexing for floors in buildings and that Western Europe uses 0-based indexing for floors in buildings.

That one already got fired: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/maryland-company-fi...

Isn't the reason that magrittr was able to use that syntax that it already existed, so your proposal is a breaking change?

What do you mean when you use the word "bytecode" in reference to Julia?