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2,801karma·177submissions·July 12, 2016
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Yossi Frenkel
Blog: https://abstractnonsense.xyz
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I learned R for statistical programming at uni, where there was less emphasis on vectorised computation, so it didn't jump to mind, but yes! I've never quite felt like numpy 'clicked&#x…
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As it happens, I had the same job as the author at uni. I shelved books at the biomedical and sciences library. As a life-long book lover, it was a dream uni job being surrounded by all sorts of histo…
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I'm no fan of closed-source languages, and lord knows MATLAB has its warts. But I can't deny that it was pretty seamless to write efficient vectorised code for numerical simulations at uni. …
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Iago Leal's blog: https://iagoleal.com/ Some incredibly interesting perspectives on maths and computing
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I've been enjoying using the new, native, VS Code integration with local models. I can use LM Studio on my Mac with LM Link to start an OpenAI-compatible server running on my DGX Spark, and plug …
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Typst also has native scripting! For fun, I've been working on a small statistical distributions library in Typst, distro[^1] that uses plain Typst. It's really nice having a decently powerf…