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Sounds really cool! As someone who programs a bit for work to help with automating processes and fun, but is not a computer scientist I'm a little jealous of never having taken a t…

I have a few Clojure books, but not knowing Java and the JVM very well and then having to learn Emacs/Cider and all the other tools really kind of killed it for me. In short, some …

Give Julia a try if you haven't. If you're coming from Python and also have some Octave experience, it will be easy and worth a look. For scientific coding I usually use either Pyt…

Yep, the takeaway for me was that the Python project required far less code, but we're not sure how fast it ran. Further below, the author states the inputs were so small it didn't…

Python was already in the top 5 well before the whole AI craze and before pandas was out. Python has a huge amount of introductory learning material that assumes it is your first l…

IIRC, they go over some of the background of it on their website.

Wow. The same at my company. It doesn't matter that it has been successfully justified 10 times. The same email comes out quarterly.

Does it still require you to magically know a ton of Java classes?

The complex imaginary channel on YouTube for the power PE test covers when to use sqrt(3) and starts off very basic.

This is nice that they make it public, but it has limited value if it doesn't have more information such as: Real-time generator MVA values Real-time load MVA values Real-time line…

I was always taught that one of the main reason to use multiple conductors was due to reduce the losses caused by the corona effect of ionizing the air. As another commenter says, …

Most of my background is in Python, but I've dabbled in a lot of languages out there from Haskell, lisp, Perl...etc. The point being I don't mind trying new things. I don't know Ja…

Thanks for working through my example question. I may have to give Prolog another shot at some point!

59M sounds pretty sweet! I'll check out Triska's videos when I pick up my Prolog book on writing a text adventure again. It's pretty much the only Prolog book that helps walk me th…

Yea I've been a little confused here until I realized I would just write some bash, Python, Perl...etc script where some would advocate for complicated tools.

How is Prolog ideal for when you'd use SQL? I can understand it if you're talking about querying a CSV file, but the advantage to SQL is that the database with all your data native…

Thanks for your hard work. I really want to like Prolog, but I often don't know how to fit it into an actual system of use. My field is power systems which involves solving numeric…

That is cool. Thanks!

Julia JITs to native LLVM code and is really fast for a lot of use cases. For things where the JIT warming up takes less time than the full job, it can be better than Python. It wa…

There is some series on nuclear disasters going on all the time. PBS just did a big one on Fukishima last year and Command and Control has been put out again recently. Maybe it's a…

I don't think democracy is the problem. The current and broken system in many nations is. I'd rather not have a dictatorship and I don't see Anarchy being particularly effective ei…

This doesn't seem that new to me, besides the location being in Canada. I watched a PBS special on Carnivorous plants recently and they covered the fact that pitcher plants in some…

As someone who is kinda a minimalist when it comes to code (prefers simplicity and less libraries and excessive moving parts) I've often wondered about this. The problem is that un…

Yea...it doesn't need to be perfect or have pretty much any apps except for web browser, mp3 player, PDF viewer, document viewer, text messaging, alarm ...that is the only thing I …

Any way you could go into more detail on your work and how your apps are setup. I'm guessing your Nim code transpiles the dashboard code to JS and the backend to C?