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This is amazingly field dependent. I am from a field where you only cite the most significant tools you use (Machine Learning). E.g. "We implemented this with a neural network buil…

I love how this read me is as much about woodwork as it is about software

> in my days at Amazon Web Services, I saw exactly zero instances of major service releases that, in the opinion of customers, crippled or broke the product. ... the PM could go ta…

Right, can't to abstract callable overloads in older versions of julia

You can't do it with license. It causes more harm than it prevents. See how this played out with the JSON License https://lwn.net/Articles/707510/ We can assume: noone evil took he…

My particular prediction for Machine Learning and Data Science is its going to become less and less Python vs R vs Julia. and more like the situation we have for for web-servers. W…

Why does Javis use `act!(object, action)` rather than making actions callable structs so you could do `action(object)` ?

I think particular nice thing about this is that it is a bundle of nice libraries integrated together well, with nice docs. Those libraries in turn also break down into other nice …

> Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented. Yes, and? That is how a port is. When FastAI for swift was a thing (is it still a thing?) it wa…

Claiming a language is bad such click-bait. Even when it is valid, it basically will get a lot of attention from haters and fanboys. It's not a title that leads to interesting disc…

> it's almost indistinguishable from base R (when you're calling it). I am very surprised by this. Given how R is extremely dynamic. and has things like lazy-evaluation, that you c…

> For scripting, interpreted Julia is coming. Citation for this? Julia has had a built-in interpretted since 1.0, in 2017 use `--compile=min`, or `--compile=none` to make use of it…

Mostly because, without us really thinking about it, implicitly it was predicated on the premise that the founders would remain largely unemployed for about 6-12 months. Even throu…

Cool post but kinda dated. It's not wrong as such but of it were written today I would expect a lot more context and depth around various aspects. E.g. Apache Arrow. E.g. Julia's c…

For most intents and purposes one can use a (potentially Singleton) type passed as a argument to functions instead of a module containing functions. And doing that gets you all the…

Window registry issues have been a thing. I have heard it is to do with how windows antivirus works. Since the registry is like 10,000 seperate files. It chokes on them. I have hea…

Since 0.7 (which was 1.0 with deprecations) In julia 0.6 and before it was exactly as bad as described. (though there were things like Playground.jl to kind of work around it)

> This is not my experience. Even if you code without caring about performance it is way faster than Python. It is very usecase dependant. If your Python code is writing lots of lo…

> Your observations in V.B.4 are pretty well understood in circuit design. Indeed, I am actually surprised the paper doesn't include something like _"This is inline with the well k…

1. yeah these are super expensive. Even the cheaper ones are close to a grand a liscense 2. definately got to have a front-end. Writing netlist by hand is suffering. 3. Interesting…

Scientific and technical computing. --- Not saying you can't do this stuff in rust. I mean its turing complete. But contrast the description of Rust: A language empowering everyone…

Something like that is the idea. Silicon area is what costs money. Use as little as possible while still being fast enough to beat the clock-rate of your system. PSO's are way bett…