But he didn’t say “scientific computing”. There are not “many other languages” that are used for the stuff that he did describe. Nevertheless, his claim is incorrect. C, C++, Julia, and Fortran are all routinely used for these purposes, sometimes with parts written in assembly. Nothing else, really. The “scientific computing” that people do with Python, Matlab, etc. is not this.
And of these four languages that are successful in this arena, only Fortran and Julia are enjoyable to program in. Between those two, Julia is far more fun and flexible (but brings other drawbacks, of course).
Lua filters for Pandoc have been around for a quite a while. What’s newer is Pandoc’s ability to be used in web browsers. There’s a bit more about this and a general rundown of Pandoc in my recent article for LWN:
“High-intensity training reduced fat and maintained lean mass in apparently healthy older adults, though changes were small and not clinically meaningful compared with exercise of lower intensity and considering measurement error.”
I didn’t read the whole paper (didn’t see any reason to after seeing this).
But the title seems to be contradicted by this conclusion.
All difficult conjectures should be proved by reductio ad absurdum arguments. For if the proof is long and complicated enough you are bound to make a mistake somewhere and hence a contradiction will inevitably appear, and so the truth of the original conjecture is established QED.
These are civil penalties. I wonder if the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments applies to the (high) statutory punitive damages. Any legal scholars want to help us out?
The language of the article is strongly biased in favor of people stealing artwork: “photographers should stop suing bloggers for copyright infringement!”
The plaintiff gets scolded for not trying to settle. But, by the article’s own account, the defendant ignored emails from the plaintiff!
Photographers should not stop suing if that’s what it takes. People should stop stealing.
Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.
The problem is that Claudine Gay was not sacked, she was allowed to resign as president and is still, at this moment, a professor at Harvard. Here is her faculty web page:
So Harvard employs, as a full professor, someone whose Ph.D. thesis contained loads of plagiarism (I’ve seen the evidence, it’s not contestable). A similar offense on the part of the students who sit in her classroom, according to Harvard’s own rules, could lead to expulsion.
EDIT: Also, as pointed out in a comment below, Prof. Gay’s Ph.D. is from Harvard. It was not revoked.
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Einstein’s Tutor published by PublicAffairs, a book about Emmy Noether and her Theorem:
Practical Julia published by No Starch Press:
My book Gnuplot 5: