I like Julia, I went through a period of enthusiasm for it a few years ago, and I'm going through another now. But.
The packages, which are necessary for any serious work, are almost all below v. 1. They are plagued by constant bugs and quirks: e.g. Flux only supports the GPU if Julia is compiled from scratch, while Distributions only works if you downloaded binaries. There are half a dozen different graphics packages, so its not clear you should invest your time learning any of them.
But I'm still optimistic about its chances in the future, after a few more years of shakeout.
I just returned a PixelBook to Amazon for a refund. The new feature of running Android apps is unreliable: sometimes I had to wait hours or days for files on GoogleDrive to become available to Android apps on ChromeOS; this also afflicted my Samsung Chromebook Pro. Google support claimed never to have heard of this bug, so I don't expect it to be fixed any time soon.
Paradise Valley? That's sunny enough for the entire world's needs? Personal Vaporizer? We can harness the hitherto lost energy of vape smoke? Principal Value? A breakthrough in QM allows us to move Schrodinger waves to values on a different sheaf? Photovoltaics? Oh yeah...
I've never seen it noted that on linux Chrome is a dog: a slow, greedy, system-sapping vampire. Moreover on linux Firefox runs the Google docs pages better than Chrome. I use Chrome as little as possible.
Somehow I think we'll survive. Some societies thought (and think) you can't live without honor, hence the execution of rape victims and rituals of suicide. Now we think we can't live without privacy. I'll bet we can.
I have said it before and I say it now: This current flow of asylum-seekers to Europe is unsustainable and is destroying Europe. This terrorism is just one example of it.
The obvious respoense is that the asylum seekers are fleeing ISIS and therefore not likely to include many ISIS members.
On the other hand the numbers make it hard to prevent terrorists sneaking in.
Without America, TPP is dead, but there will likely be a new free trade agreement to replace it, anchored on China, rather than America.
When the history book of America's decline is written, this will likely be listed as one of the milestones.
No, but when the history of the death of democracy in America is written, the proposal that a secret agreement be passed, without the public even being allowed to read it, will be a milestone.
"Maybe - but I find it more likely that the government is simply just promoting a pro-IP stance because our economy is^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h plutocrats are so heavily dependent on protecting those sorts of provisions."
I can think of a much more depressing reason why ETs may never travel. Perhaps at a certain level of development in cognitive psych and fundamental physics it becomes clear that conscious and personal identity are illusions. Then life is regarded as trap, reproduction ceases, and the remaining population subsides into a virtual reality bath to soothe its pain.
"Apple requires books sold in its iBook store have prices ending in.99 — nothing else."
This reminds me of that scene in Bananas when the dictator requires citizens to change their underwear twice a day - and underwear is to be worn on the outside, so he can check.
Someone at Apple had better stage an intervention soon. Jobs need professional help.
I agree that Wolfram's NKoM is disappointing as music (although it's certainly a fun website).
I have also used Mathematica to produce "music", or at least interesting noise. I tried to incorporate some music theory into my algorithm, which is much more complicated than Wolfram's seems to be, and is able to produce sounds with a certain shape, although I would hesitate to call it musical structure.
Actually the NYT reporter was quite wrong in her description of that match. IIRC, the first two games were split; the next three drawn, but Kasparov had the advantage most of the time in those three games. In the last game Kasparov blundered early in the opening, falling into a known trap, and the game was lost before Deep Blue even had to leave the opening book, i.e. before it had to make any original moves.
I'm pretty sure that in a longer match (championship matches have usually been 24 games, always at least 10) Kasparov would have won. It was certainly humiliating for Kasparov to lose, but in no way can that match be taken as proving Deep Blue's superiority.
...ebooks aren't dying,rather they are only viable as an underground were people digitize all of the greatest new releases (and older classics, and older not-so-classics) and distribute them in easily read formats.
I guess that explains why most readers don't handle those easy formats. I thought about getting an eBook reader recently but almost none could read ascii or pdf files.
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I like Julia, I went through a period of enthusiasm for it a few years ago, and I'm going through another now. But.
The packages, which are necessary for any serious work, are almost all below v. 1. They are plagued by constant bugs and quirks: e.g. Flux only supports the GPU if Julia is compiled from scratch, while Distributions only works if you downloaded binaries. There are half a dozen different graphics packages, so its not clear you should invest your time learning any of them.
But I'm still optimistic about its chances in the future, after a few more years of shakeout.
I just returned a PixelBook to Amazon for a refund. The new feature of running Android apps is unreliable: sometimes I had to wait hours or days for files on GoogleDrive to become available to Android apps on ChromeOS; this also afflicted my Samsung Chromebook Pro. Google support claimed never to have heard of this bug, so I don't expect it to be fixed any time soon.
Merging two OS's seems like such a stupid idea.
Paradise Valley? That's sunny enough for the entire world's needs?
Personal Vaporizer? We can harness the hitherto lost energy of vape smoke?
Principal Value? A breakthrough in QM allows us to move Schrodinger waves to values on a different sheaf?
Photovoltaics? Oh yeah...
I've never seen it noted that on linux Chrome is a dog: a slow, greedy, system-sapping vampire. Moreover on linux Firefox runs the Google docs pages better than Chrome. I use Chrome as little as possible.
Somehow I think we'll survive. Some societies thought (and think) you can't live without honor, hence the execution of rape victims and rituals of suicide. Now we think we can't live without privacy. I'll bet we can.
Can you run this without rebooting under VirtualBox?
That is such a PoS on linux, I even prefer running Google web apps on Firefox.
What do you have against metaphysical inifnitism? I say take the turtles and run hard with them,
https://www.academia.edu/19375...
I have said it before and I say it now: This current flow of asylum-seekers to Europe is unsustainable and is destroying Europe. This terrorism is just one example of it.
The obvious respoense is that the asylum seekers are fleeing ISIS and therefore not likely to include many ISIS members. On the other hand the numbers make it hard to prevent terrorists sneaking in.
Without America, TPP is dead, but there will likely be a new free trade agreement to replace it, anchored on China, rather than America.
When the history book of America's decline is written, this will likely be listed as one of the milestones.
No, but when the history of the death of democracy in America is written, the proposal that a secret agreement be passed, without the public even being allowed to read it, will be a milestone.
"Maybe - but I find it more likely that the government is simply just promoting a pro-IP stance because our economy is^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h plutocrats are so heavily dependent on protecting those sorts of provisions."
Fixed that for you.
So apologies are only required when westerners are killed? What about all the innocent local people who have been killed in drone strikes?
It's virtually abadonware, lasy updated January 24, 2011, lots of complaints about it not working on various devices. A shame.
Presumably the matching funds come from Very Rich People. I don't see how a plan tha depends on VRP can suucced in freeing politics from them.
I can think of a much more depressing reason why ETs may never travel. Perhaps at a certain level of development in cognitive psych and fundamental physics it becomes clear that conscious and personal identity are illusions. Then life is regarded as trap, reproduction ceases, and the remaining population subsides into a virtual reality bath to soothe its pain.
Gee, who could oppose that?
Stallman obviously knows nothing about the current political environment in his country.
And it wants permission to pillage your personal data before it even tells you anything about the game.
An app has at least got to give me a plausible motive to surrender my privacy to it.
"Apple requires books sold in its iBook store have prices ending in .99 — nothing else."
This reminds me of that scene in Bananas when the dictator requires citizens to change their underwear twice a day - and underwear is to be worn on the outside, so he can check.
Someone at Apple had better stage an intervention soon. Jobs need professional help.
I have also used Mathematica to produce "music", or at least interesting noise. I tried to incorporate some music theory into my algorithm, which is much more complicated than Wolfram's seems to be, and is able to produce sounds with a certain shape, although I would hesitate to call it musical structure.
Examples of results of gotten are included at http://music.download.com/andrewdabrowski and I have a hybrid piece, part Mathematica generated, part human composed, at http://mypage.iu.edu/~dabrowsa/junk.html.
I should say that my Mathematica program produces raw midi files of voices, without any instrumentation. That is added by "hand" afterwards.
Actually the NYT reporter was quite wrong in her description of that match. IIRC, the first two games were split; the next three drawn, but Kasparov had the advantage most of the time in those three games. In the last game Kasparov blundered early in the opening, falling into a known trap, and the game was lost before Deep Blue even had to leave the opening book, i.e. before it had to make any original moves.
I'm pretty sure that in a longer match (championship matches have usually been 24 games, always at least 10) Kasparov would have won. It was certainly humiliating for Kasparov to lose, but in no way can that match be taken as proving Deep Blue's superiority.
I guess that explains why most readers don't handle those easy formats. I thought about getting an eBook reader recently but almost none could read ascii or pdf files.