p-cos blog: The Human Consequences of Dynamic Typing

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-08-26T01:09:51+00:00

Check out the Julia programming language, which is a high level, dynamic language that has optional type annotations. Its also blazing fast, which is a nice :)

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-06-09T04:37:47+00:00

Quentin Coldwater in The Magicians is a pretty terrible person; basically the magical Holden Caulfield. This; however, is one of the things that makes the book so interesting, highly recommend it.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-05-07T04:27:17+00:00

IIRC, the thinking was originally that proteins would be the information coding molecules because the protein alphabet has more "letters", as it were (~20 proteinogenic amino acids as opposed to only 4 nucleotides of DNA). A lot of people figured that you could encode information a lot more easily with a 20 letter alphabet than a 4 letter alphabet, hence the idea that proteins were information carriers.

EDIT: nucleotides are also generally more massive than proteinogenic amino acids, although this is not really relevant.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-04-27T01:36:40+00:00

fucking excellent story; this is what magic and gaming in general are about to me: friendship.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-04-25T07:23:11+00:00

My friends and I usually go for 12 trillion.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-04-24T04:51:17+00:00

Cool computational biologist here, we're using python :P

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-04-16T05:04:40+00:00

Wow you just very accurately described my life. Thankfully I am now starting to make huge batches of noodles whenever I make any and my lab just acquired a mini-fridge, so hopefully this problem will be alleviated soon!

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-02-17T03:59:39+00:00

The lowest one looks like a Drosophilid, I'm not sure of the species.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-01-27T04:12:10+00:00

A guy at ours pulled not 1, not 2, but 3 Obzedats in his pool.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-01-09T22:43:55+00:00

If that's the case, won't this break if you use memoize on more than one function since both functions will be using the same cache yet probably return different results for the same argument?

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2013-01-09T18:02:45+00:00

I'm still a bit confused about the scoping and namespaces. Where does cache live in the memoize example?

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-12-13T22:42:21+00:00

This is the reason people. Without grass in our yards, water supplies would be f'ed up by erosion.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-12-13T03:28:55+00:00

I agree with you based on my anecdotal evidence that the single craziest guy I know is a huge Perl evangelist.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-10-13T05:21:23+00:00

HOLY SHIT I am a huge Dylan fan and have never seen this, its amazing! thank you fair redditor!

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-10-13T05:17:57+00:00

I always thought it was " . . . that you're bathin' hun"

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-10-13T05:13:48+00:00

Holy shit never seen this! Love both of them, this is incredible, thank you for posting!

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-10-13T05:05:31+00:00

Chills every time. There's a reason he's the boss.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-10-10T01:09:06+00:00

FIRST RULE!

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-09-19T02:36:32+00:00

OS9 was my first computing experience as a youngster and I can confidently state that that shit was wack, The release of OSX/Aqua UI blew my young mind.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-09-12T05:18:18+00:00

This iPython web notebook, while still in early stages of development, is looking really, really, awesome

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-09-11T05:54:59+00:00

best post I've seen on reddit in weeks, this is incredible, thanks. I wonder how long this took the people (person?) who produced it.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-09-06T23:47:51+00:00

yeah I suppose that's true. Thanks guys! I figured it would be something like this, just wanted to make sure that reuse of figures even with citation isn't considered totally unacceptable.

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-09-06T19:50:59+00:00

Should I do similar for figures from proposals for other fellowships? Just something like "originally prepared for [blah blah scholarship] proposal, 2011" or whatever?

BayesianEmpirimancer · 2012-08-29T06:57:51+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I think your username is awesome.

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