cjv

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Congratulations Stefan, "Kaggle for robotics" seems like an exciting direction! I still remember your kindness and just wanted to wish you the best.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I wanted to 3D print infinite LEGOs, but I was told that typical machines are not precise enough for this task.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm curious to know what people think about elisp as a extension language. Would Emacs be better if everything was implemented in elisp including the core data structures (assuming elisp was very fast)? Do people suffer from lack of static typing?

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Wow, that is a beautiful animation at the end there.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Reflect is a cool name, but nearly impossible to Google.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Can you name some breaking changes PyTorch made?

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Eigenvectors for building a leaderboard? Can you explain more?

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Kubernetes did it first.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

How does APL compare to J? Which one is more enriching to learn?

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

...doesn't the JAX example just need the argument set to static_argnums and then it will work?

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

PG seems to agree with Amjad's decisions.

https://imgur.com/a/WkpHk0n

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401617251464138754

Unbelievable and shameless.

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Very ignorant comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll#Mathematical_wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr...

cjv

5 jaar geledendiscuss

How does this relate to a Fenwick tree?

(Edit: The article did not include its note on Fenwick trees when I commented this.)

cjv

6 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm always impressed by SpaCy's web design, it's so distinctive and the documentation is a pleasure to navigate and read.

cjv

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Chez Scheme is a good example on how many compiler passes can be extremely effective.

https://github.com/nanopass/nanopass-framework-scheme/

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