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IANAeconomist but may I ask, tongue firmly in cheek, if they also only pour water into the shallow end of swimming pools to avoid contributing drownings?

Sun JavaStation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation

Joe used to have all that code in his world-readable NFS-mounted home directory. He would just create a new directory for every idea or project. Take it with him from one computer …

_The Ode Less Travelled_ by Stephen Fry could make a great Christmas present.

I pretty much always use ECDF in preference to histogram these days.

Is the question fundamentally: what's the relative likelihood of each number or clusters? If so then estimating the marginal likelihood of each one and comparing them seems pretty …

Yeah, cffi.

I think the median user starts with quicklisp and then clones random stuff into the ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ dir where they are automatically visible.

Oxidation is a big problem with the harsh no-clean fluxes in many cheap lead-free solder wires. Switching to a rosin flux (RMA or RA) name brand solder should fix that (did for me.…

The failure mode that I worry about and would need X-ray to detect is that temporary misalignment will merge/bridge some of the solder balls. I like to "wiggle" the chip with tweez…

The nixpkgs upstream CL infrastructure is also recently updated and IMHO excellent: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#lisp

Olin Shivers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382531

SBCL 25th anniversary workshop is in Vienna thu-fri next week. See you there!

I'm a parent of young kids in Scandinavia. The way I see it is that I mostly work and earn money for my own personal satisfaction. It's a selfish and egotistical activity but impor…

Likelihoods aren’t fundamentally small. The center of a normal distribution has high likelihood (e.g. 1000000) if the standard deviation is small or low likelihood if the standard …

Maybe of interest: https://github.com/probsys/AutoGP.jl

He said that in his youth his colleagues were in awe of him because he was brave enough to give presentations in English . (They were shy and stuck to the local Swiss German dialec…

Besides all his innumerable accomplishments he was also a hero to Joe Armstrong and a big influence on his brand of simplicity. Joe would often quote Wirth as saying that yes, over…

It's really comical not being able to fit into a devroom for a talk and noticing that people inside weren't actually paying attention but rather just holding a chair for another ta…

It's an acquired taste.

Have a relaxing quality morning with the family from 6am-8am. Go to bed on time to make it work.

My impression is that this comes down to expectations. You might have a function: foo(x,y) = x + y and multiple dispatch means you can call that with integers, or floats, or arrays…

The half-life of major Julia problems is impressively short. Compiler latency ("time to first plot") used to be miserable but after a few releases with incremental improvements it …