Pragmatically, cost and ease of access is especially important in suppressed countries or ones with unstable infrastructure. While the devices you're talking about has lots of conveniences, distribution and price dominate in lower income regions.
For a side project, sure. But in first world countries, the odds of infrastructure breakdown or suppression of Internet is incredibly rare. In Iran's case, suppression is a weapon so phone only makes a lot of sense.
Phoronix paints a very different picture, especially in non-synthetic workloads[1]. Gravitron2 looks like a nice speedup over the first generation but either the optimization isn't there yet or there are areas which need additional work to become more developer/HPC competitive. That said, I'm thrilled we have competition in the architecture space for general purpose compute again.
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Implicit is basically just an implementation detail. The idea of only allowing one typeclass instance per data is generally referred as confluence and you're correct in that scala doesn't attempt to enforce it.
I understand the Haskell communities desire for coherent typeclasses, but I still find the newtype work around cludge to allow multiple implementation of, say, Monoid to be quasi hacky. What's worse, you can still fairly easily define multiple instances of the same typeclass accidentally (orphan instances) and the compiler won't catch it.
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Clearly a chatroom with half a million individuals is unusable from pretty much every perspective. That said, a chat server with N chatrooms and a total population of 500k users sounds like a good day on IRC and well within the realm of what something like this could potentially handle.
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Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some important challenges created by the shift from desktop to mobile. Our stack is primarily in functional style Scala (we are heavy functional programming users) with most of our AI stack in Python and C++.
We're one of a few startups that do AI research above and beyond product development. We host regular talks on multiple disciplines ranging from systems to functional programming to deep learning.
The team was founded by former Stanford CS graduates that built self driving cars, search at Google and Yahoo Research, co-authored the google file system and scaled Twitter to 200 million users. Our open source code powers Snapchat, Tumblr, Wikipedia in production today.
We're currently looking to add some great engineers to our team. Want to write highly scalable software with the architects who scaled Twitter and Google? Want to run ops for software which is designed for fault tolerance? Want to design next generation user interfaces? jobs at blackbird.am
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Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some important challenges created by the shift from desktop to mobile. Our stack is primarily in functional style Scala (we are heavy functional programming users) with most of our AI stack in Python and C++.
We're one of a few startups that do AI research above and beyond product development. We host regular talks on multiple disciplines ranging from systems to functional programming to deep learning.
The team was founded by former Stanford CS graduates that built self driving cars, search at Google and Yahoo Research, co-authored the google file system and scaled Twitter to 200 million users. Our open source code powers Snapchat, Tumblr, Wikipedia in production today.
We're currently looking to add some great engineers to our team. Want to write highly scalable software with the architects who scaled Twitter and Google? Want to run ops for software which is designed for fault tolerance? Want to design next generation user interfaces? jobs at blackbird.am
That's not really true. Erlang's VM is fantastic at GC with thousands upon thousands of green processes multiplexed onto the system threads, allowing soft realtime performance. Similarly, Haskell's Parallel Strategies library works well with the Parallel GC. Immutability makes this a whole lot easier.
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The team was founded by former Stanford CS graduates that built self driving cars, search at Google and Yahoo Research, co-authored the google file system and scaled Twitter to 200 million users. Our open source code powers Snapchat, Tumblr, Wikipedia in production today.
We're currently looking to add some great engineers to our team. Have a passion for AI/ML and want to work with the bleedingist of edges? Want to write highly scalable software with the architects who scaled Twitter and Google? Want to run ops for software which is designed for fault tolerance? Want to design next generation user interfaces? jobs at blackbird.am
Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some important challenges created by the shift from desktop to mobile. Our stack is primarily in functional style Scala (we are heavy functional programming users) with most of our AI stack in Python and C++.
We're one of a few startups that do AI research above and beyond product development. We host regular talks on multiple disciplines ranging from systems to functional programming to deep learning.
The team was founded by former Stanford CS graduates that built self driving cars, search at Google and Yahoo Research, co-authored the google file system and scaled Twitter to 200 million users. Our open source code powers Snapchat, Tumblr, Wikipedia in production today.
We're currently looking to add some great engineers to our team. Have a passion for AI/ML and want to work with the bleedingist of edges? Want to write highly scalable software with the architects who scaled Twitter and Google? Want to run ops for software which is designed for fault tolerance? Want to design next generation user interfaces?
It's a huge issue on mobile. Multiple rendering engines requiring the world to write software to a spec is what prevents people from writing code dependent on a particular browser or, in this case, a rendering engine. You see it all the time in the mobile web: plenty of sites just plain don't work when using other rendering engines.
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It's amazing how fast you can go when you don't care about safety ;)
That said, for all non trivial work loads, the latest postgres is quite the work horse, but of course requires some tuning for performance. We ended up switch to it after MySQL consistently sucked on smaller joins.
Can't argue on the replication deal: it's a work in progress.
I considered editing my other comment but decided instead to break it out.
There are a couple of complexities that your comment illustrates well:
First, continuous math _is_ available and immediately applicable today. The problem is that we often reason in and program to the implementation, not the abstraction - a subtle difference, but an important one. Not only that, but by reasoning in a flawed representation, we often miss important derivations that result in dramatic simplifications and reductions in the problem domain. I would also argue that we already do use continuous math regularly - for example, linear algebra, combinatorics, and set theor: most of us only know them as arrays, random, and SQL.
Secondly, not enough effort is made in formal education for applying 'pure' math to computer science. Some branches, such as linear algebra, have obvious implementations and analogies already available but others are quite a bit less clear - I fault this more on curriculum silos than an engineer's innate abilities. It's a learned skill that just isn't often taught.
Two good examples from the Scala community would be Algebird[1] from Twitter which uses Monoids as a main abstraction and Spire[2], which might be the best numerical library out there and heavily rooted in Abstract Algebra.
For a side project, sure. But in first world countries, the odds of infrastructure breakdown or suppression of Internet is incredibly rare. In Iran's case, suppression is a weapon so phone only makes a lot of sense.