Matt Bauman

Well it's been fun watching the slow motion car crash here, but it's time for me to be done. I'm now at @mbauman" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fosstodon.org/web/@mbauman

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr. youtu.be/ftcIcn8AmSY Guy discusses parallel programming, using a non-trivial example, and he then describes basic concepts for programming languages and algorithm design that are important for parallel programming. (1/2)

@oxinabox_frames I'm curious what your theory is

Why did unicode for functions and variables become popular in JuliaLang when it never did in most other languages? The vast majority of languages in use today support this, but it's rarely used. E.g java has supported this since the mid-90s IIRC. (I have my theory with 3 parts)

@DubinBen @_elkue That could be a strobe/shutter sync issue. Some car lights strobe and will appear off in photos.

@_elkue Was the car signaling a right turn despite turning left, or were they braking when you took the photo? If the latter, two brake lights (left and center mount) are not functioning.

On my way home tonight I saw a driver with an almost totally obscured plate run a red light in Williamsburg. This is pretty normal but since there were cops on the block I simply told them what happened

@malmaud @oxinabox_frames Yeah, I'm sure that's a huge part of why it's not common in Python. #identifiers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.python.org/2/reference/le…

@_mbauman @oxinabox_frames I think maybe Python 2 didn't support unicode symbols? So most Python programmers are probably unaware they're even supported now.

@oxinabox_frames Yeah, but I think it's the more science-y engineers are the ones that are more gung-ho about unicode... and they already fancy themselves as scientists. That's me, anyhow.

@_mbauman Engineers too

@oxinabox_frames scientists and mathematicians, I should say.

@oxinabox_frames My 3: 1. The primary initial userbase — scientists — know & use latex (and like using non-ASCII symbols) 2. Julia's tab completion makes it easy to access unicode (with latex names) the same way across many editors/notebooks/envs 3. Prominent initial demos bragged about it

@austinc3301 @somacdivad Dict's keys work by numeric equality (specifically `isequal`). And `1`, `1.0` and `true` are all equal. So the first line just sets the value at that key for "one" twice. And the second line gets the value at the key for "one".

I'm terrified by what we're seeing this summer, and by knowing how fast it's getting worse, and by how there's not really a ceiling on how bad it can get, and by how almost everyone still pretends business as usual can go on. Those who are not terrified don't have a clue.

I cannot wait for the day when Stable Diffusion is built in to PowerPoint and the like for quick generation of slideware graphics based on a prompt and a rough sketch.

@Kevbonham I love how distinctly Chicago that view is.

Utterly horrifying. For real, at least put a NSFW flag on this, my goodness!

@erikengheim @Red_take_s Everyone will, it's racist agitprop. Once you've started using dehumanizing language like "bred out" you've lost.

ok, what is wrong with being "bred out"? why is that worth caring about?

Learning data science is fun, so then why do we always use the same boring datasets? It's common to see projects using the iris, cars, or titanic data. Stand out! Check these 9 datasets on I created on #kaggle perfect for a unique portfolio project. #datascience #datasets🧵👇

We’re doomed. s/covid/climate change/.

Thousands of ad-driven sites compete for clicks to show the same basic information alongside their ads; good luck finding a more advanced slant on it.

Web search has become so worthless. I don't know how to find relevant information anymore now that SEO has completely and utterly coopted what used to be meaningful keywords with spam articles.

Who's hyped for JuliaCon . (made with javis.jl) #julialang #programming #JuliaCon