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GNU GPLv3 At the Heart of the Black Hole Image (www.tfir.io)
arnieswap quotes TFIR's report on the black hole image:
Free and Open Source software was at the heart of this image. The team used three different imaging software libraries to achieve the feat. Out of the three, two were fully open source libraries. The source code of the software is publicly available on GitHub.
Richard M Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project will be glad to see that both libraries (Sparselab and ehtim) are released under GNU GPL v3. Yes, you read it right – GNU GPL v3.
Richard M Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project will be glad to see that both libraries (Sparselab and ehtim) are released under GNU GPL v3. Yes, you read it right – GNU GPL v3.
You got the wrong thread.
Maybe free software already won the "software wars", now I think there should be a fight against the "close source cloud".
Nope, it's entirely appropriate to call out a traitor.
Go stand on the WH lawn and say it for real. Posting it here where nobody cares isn't brave at all.
Why would saying it to a building be brave? You're a coward hiding from the truth. Trump is a traitor, everything he says is a lie, and you're a moron if you believe him on any of it - when he dies in prison you'll understand that.
Until then, calling out the traitor is always appropriate.
There are no communists anywhere outside of Russian puppet states like North Korea you fucking retard.
I guess you are in a Russian puppet state that gives all of your wealth to Putin's buddies while the rest of the country is grateful for the scraps your corrupt puppet president allows to escape his grip?
Good luck struggling to reach the standard of living that Western Europe has had for decades.
Maybe you can commiserate with some likeminded treason-cucks about how good Vladimir Putin's semen tastes and how bad universal healthcare and indoor plumbing are.
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It should read:
GNU GPLv3 At the Heart of Richard Stallman's Butt Hoal
There are plenty of Communist-paraphilia/Soviet flag-waving Cuckmmunist among your identitarian left and ANTIFA clique of ever-moronic lolcows. It's always funny seeing it and it's always fun seeing support for your band of mentally unstable children keep dropping. The Ameriburger Democrats are now fractured and in civil war, while every news outlet left of FOX has seen a trust ratings drop beneath the levels of Congress for the first time in history, and the fact that posters like you have contributed to the FOX that we know becoming more trusted than once-respected news outlets like CNN, and that posters like you have contributed to even Obama coming out to call you identitarians moronic and telling the Democratic Party to get its shit together, makes my mouth pull an every-widening grin.
All this Trump-Russia whining yet it turns out only 1% of the population views it as an important topic according to recent polls and stats. It makes your posts look like a laughable fart trying to overcome the entire atmosphere.
I've worked at a national institute in Europe and worked on software for reading out infrared cameras for space-observing satellites. Everywhere around me, both scientists and engineers, were replacing (or trying to replace) Matlab and other commercial software with Python. There were some Fortran holdouts, but these were also migrating to Python. Software engineers used C++ for the core, but these were little nuggets that shoved data from custom electronics to ethernet, and then Python would pick up the packets.
For some specific stuff, especially electronics engineers were not replacing Matlab. For instance to model electromotors. Mechanical engineers likewise. I never knew what they were using, but open source was not used anywhere at our institute. But the rest: Python, NumPy and SciPy.
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The Mathworks Mafia can burn in hell for all I care. Fuck that evilcorp!
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They did a lot of work to make sure they eliminated expectation bias from the image processing. And, I believe they had 4 teams working on different algorithms, not allowed to collaborate with one another, and all of whom came up with more or less the same result.
AFAIK, the v3 of GPL is partially in response to companies trying to do content distribution platforms using open source software. The content owners are very particular about having DRM, and the platforms on which that content is distributed have to provide some sort of secure boot chain that prevents unauthorized software from running on the *hardware*. Those companies comply with the open source GPL v2 license and publish their source code for others to use, but they do not allow modifications of that source code to run on their hardware. Not clear to me why a software license should extend to the hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bravo.
Hitting it out of the park!
But according to modern left-think, wolfing down jizz is perfectly normal and natural. How can a leftist use such a turn of phrase as an insult when other leftists celebrate such behavior?
captcha: catcher (cant make this stuff up)
GNU software is not free software. It was used because it was there, so it was convenient.
Tell me about it. We've been trying to persuade some astronomers off of IDL / Intel Fortran for years to no success.
between engineers and scientists.
Engineers are paid to deliver commercial products as quickly and cheaply as possible with little regard to actual knowledge ... until the company gets sued. There will be exceptions.
Scientists are paid to solved questions with testable and repeatable solutions. There will be exceptions.
This reads like an Alex Jones comment section crapflood bot having a stroke...
Are you ok, traitor?
That speech seemed to present some frighteningly bad "science". To paraphrase: by building in filters to select from extremely noisy figures, we detect an image, much like sketch artists at a crime scene.
But sketch artists are historically _awful_, with their results tainted by racial stereotype and whatever the first witness leads the other witnesses to conclude that they must have seen. The result has been many convictions of innocent people. This talk is actually quite alarming, the woman does not seem aware of the likely experimental bias of what she does.
No Ada?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
you read it right – GNU GPL v3
Why is it remarkable? Is it because it is weird since the G of GPL already means GNU?
GPL3 is just like a blackhole - it sucks so hard it destroys everything it touches.
i would be surprised if NO open source software would have been used.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
While the initial "G" in GNU does mean GNU (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), the "G" of "GPL" stands for "General"—General Public License. The GNU GPLs are so widely used and discussed that one can get away with saying "GPL" to mean one or more versions of the GNU General Public License. 'General' here means not specifically written for a particular GNU program. When GNU started different GNU programs had their own license—GNU Emacs General Public License for GNU Emacs, for example. It's not hard to see how this approach doesn't scale up well. The GNU GPLs are the license for many GNU programs. Today GNU GPL v3 is the latest such license and the license itself and GNU's pages about that license make it clear that the proper full name of this license is "GNU General Public License".
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the woman
LOL, spotted the fucking incel piece of shit!
This talk is actually quite alarming, the woman does not seem aware of the likely experimental bias of what she does.
Obviously you tuned out before she got to this, because she literally uses the word "biases" at 9:50. Just another Slashdot armchair scientist. You basically ignored the last 1/3 of the talk in order to confirm your personal biases.
Everywhere around me, both scientists and engineers, were replacing (or trying to replace) Matlab and other commercial software with Python.
How ironic! That's what I'm doing today. It would really be nice if scipy.io.loadmat would import nested MATLAB structures structures without a bunch of hacks.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".