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OCaml?

Yes you don't need to explain my field to me, thank you very much. Are you going to post wikipedia links next? It still doesn't change the fact that PCA is extremely unrigorous for…

Relieved to know I can still trust HNers to always take hyperbolic statements literally

Ah, just the right time to publish about numpy - right when everyone is moving over to Julia because of numpy's warts.

>A what point? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrinsic >Do you have a reason to think that means PCA is bad at representing similarity and kinship because of this? I s…

Now my opinion may seem controversial but I personally believe having feature requests that are old enough to legally drink is not a sign of healthy project management

Are they still paid by Mozilla, though?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse

Pretty moribund. They got dropped by Mozilla so it's entirely community-driven, and there's only so many things you need to add to an email client, unless you want it to turn into …

Just in case people don't know, although the name sounds French I've literally never seen one in France. I guess it's like Mexico's Taco Bell or something

Using a PCA to prove an intrinsic point about ethnicity is as laughable as it gets. You're aware the vectors in a PCA are just linear combinations of the observed features, right? …

Who knows, we might even see GNOME getting thumbnail previews in its file picker!

If you've just now taken the venv plunge wait until you learn about conda. Python is more or less a shitshow when it comes for packaging and it's the reason I'm drifting away from …

If people freak out that the Vikings weren't pure-bred Scandinavians, wait until they learn about the identical ancestor point [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ances…

No shit. Do the people who believe immigration was invented in the 60s also believe the Vikings used to wear horned helmets?

The actual solution to gerrymandering is to discard the whole silly idea of 'district' and vote proportionally, just many countries do and are not the worse off for it. What about …

The reason France's math output is so stellar is because of the controversial grand école system - pretty much every great French mathematician you can name came out of one of the …