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: I think I’m checking the eclipse weather too obsessively. Pivotal weather and windy are nice. …

: yahoo is still around? www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/…

: Is PyTorch and PyTorch Geometric supposed to take over an hour to install? … tick tick tock …

: Better than the best low-rank approximation with the SVD. It’s February 29th 2024, Gene Golub’s 23rd birthday. Time to do an SVD and talk to a …

: Dump of a few older things from Science Apologies, I forgot to record the Soil to Foil I’ve added this book to my reading list. Really …

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: Impact of coal power on excess deaths. There is a nice figure from Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation regarding …

: Cartel Size Paper in Science I just finished reading through the main paper on [Mexican Drug cartel sizes in Science]() (I still …

: Prediction-powered inference New paper in Science on using ML-based methods to improve classical confidence intervals or …

: Light reading... I reviewed a book proposal for Cambridge University Press. They often gift books to people who do …

: I love YouTube sometimes! youtu.be/etnMr8oUS…

: Does anyone know where the (Research Question) RQ1…RQ4 motif / meme in papers originated …

: Super cool paper by @keenanisalive et al www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/… By coincidence… I …

: No app! Please don’t ever play “1 Hour Deep Sleep Music: Deep Sleep Relaxation” on …

: I had some fun planting messages in graphs or networks with @JuliaLanguage! See how here! …

: Digging the snow here in Indiana… wait, I mean that literally…

: Idea from Quora this morning: call them “strawberry” arguments instead of …

: Anyone know if there are tools to record edits to files in realtime? e.g. So you could scroll …

: Somehow my upgrade to MacOS Monterey 12.1 took out my Samsung 870 QVO SSD in an external USB case. …

: Anyone know approximately (order of magnitude) how many spike proteins your cells would make after …

: Dear Apple Developer world, is there documentation of the “plj” (Property List Journal) …

: Based on the Google News snippets, you wouldn’t think these headlines describe the same …

: The FDA (regulations.gov) got 40,000 comments yesterday on the EUA for 5-11! (Their total is 55k …

: Oh wow. MS @powerpoint finally fixed my bug with PT Sans Bold Italic on MacOS Big Sur… (and …

: Anyone know what the carbon footprint of me spending 5 minutes answering an email is? I don’t …

: Tried to take a survey of academic climate. Sadly had to give up because it was total nonsense. My …

: Google thinks the Lucid Air has some pretty incredible range.

: n=1 observation for me regarding class… I’m finding this semester has more …

: If anyone sees a leather case for an iPhone 13 Pro without a lip around the camera region, can you …

: I find it curious how surveys of academia believe we have perfect memory of how many things like …

: Need data (networks, hypergraphs, tensors, ML, AI)? Here’s a timestamped and linked digest of …

: LAPACK's random number generators in Julia (part ... blah ... in work to port ARPACK to Julia.) ARPACK depends on LAPACK’s internal random number generators dlarnv slarnv zlarnv clarnv …

: ARPACK Sorting Take 2 (Part ... blah in the ongoing series...) Last post on sorting was a disaster. I tried to do something quick and simple in Julia and ran into …

: Me on learning about `save` variables in Fortran and accessing them from Julia. (Part ... something ... in my ongoing segment on porting ARPACK to Julia) Huh, what are these things in a FORTRAN code marked save … Oh… jeez, is that …

: "In-place" sorting allocates half-sized temporary arrays in Julia for non-numeric types. I hope my confusion at the difference between the memory allocation behavior of the following codes …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 6 - Sorting Take 1 Next up on our list of routines to convert is the sorting routine dsortr. Again, this could be …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 5 - Understanding Ref Here, we pick up with debugging the call to dsconv within the ARPACK library itself from the last …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 4 - Checking against libarpack See Overview for a high-level picture, also see ArpackInJulia.jl on Github One of the things I …

: A funny thing in @JuliaLanguage. I often illustrate that finite differences in floating point are …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 3 - First routine See Overview for a high-level picture, also see ArpackInJulia.jl on Github We are going to start our …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 2 - Overview See Overview for a high-level picture. Here is a quick call graph of the various ARPACK functions …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 1 - Goals I’m working on a small “me-time” project to port the ARPACK symmetric solver to Julia. …

: Anyone else find the documentation in old Fortran codes is amazingly beautiful? e.g. look at the …

: Julia (@JuliaComputing) and VSCode on Native M1. Install M1 Native VSCode. Install Xcode & …

: My thoughts on getting a COVID vaccine today. My thoughts on getting a COVID vaccine today. I’m of mixed feelings about this because, while …

: Me. Thinking as I’m looking at my shelf. See a book with obscured title… “Lag…” which I read …

: arXiv vanity works amazingly well with some small warts. Running our 80-page survey paper on flow-based network cluster improvement through the processor …

: Visualizing COVID Cases and Tests - Purdue vs. Vermont As a fun little exercise with my students, we sought to improve the Purdue COVID tracking dashboard. …

: Project and Forget Metric Optimization - Explained In a new video, I do a deep dive with Rishi Sonthalia and Anna Gilbert about their paper on …

: Fixing the NYTimes Horrible Exit Poll page. I have so many problems with this display of data in the attached screenshot from the nytimes …

: Designing for Julia is hard As a longtime Matlab user, someone who enjoys Python syntax, and loves crafting C codes for maximum …