Readit Newsesalman commented on In Defense of Matlab Code runmat.org/blog/in-defens... · Posted by u/finbarr1987
esalman commented on In Defense of Matlab Code runmat.org/blog/in-defens... · Posted by u/finbarr1987
"I have direct experience of universities doing horrifyingly wasteful computations" is not the ringing endorsement for Matlab you might think it to be...
Granted, I've seen Python horrors on university HPC clusters too, but at least there are libraries and clear documentation (e.g. Lightning, Ray, etc) for how to properly manage these things. Good luck finding that with Matlab.
Universities are not wasteful. University graduates earn more and face fewer unemployment than high school graduates. More universities correlates with higher GDP per capita.
esalman commented on In Defense of Matlab Code runmat.org/blog/in-defens... · Posted by u/finbarr1987
I dislike Matlab's licensing and spaghetti style coding practices like anyone else, but there's another reason python or other modern replacements are scorned at. There are some algorithm/theorem implementations that will produce different results based on the platform and version you are using. With Matlab the chance of that happening is much much lower, if not zero.
esalman commented on In Defense of Matlab Code runmat.org/blog/in-defens... · Posted by u/finbarr1987
esalman commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
The top 1% of earners in the US pay 40% of all income taxes.
Top 1% have more income (income inequality is a thing). Taking away 40% income would hit the bottom 99% much harder than it would affect the life of top 1%. 50% of renters spend >30% on housing, 25% spend >50%.
40% figure is also based on individual income taxes. It drops significantly if you consider other sources (payroll etc).
Top 1% also receive preferential tax treatment and benefits disproportionately from policy changes.
Seriously. There’s a reason all our kids’ preschool teachers never return from maternity leave. The pay isn’t enough to pay someone else to watch your baby while you work. And this school is already an expensive one and is a nonprofit so the money isn’t going to some Mr. Moneybags investor. The economics of childcare are broken.
All of them? A bunch of my son's daycare teachers had their own kids, even infants, attending the same daycare.
How, exactly, do you propose to do that?
Palantir might have a solution for you.
esalman commented on How long can it take to become a US citizen? usafacts.org/articles/how... · Posted by u/speckx
It's not talked about enough how difficult it is for an honest, hard-working person to get a green card or citizenship, but how easy it is for people who get rich through corruption and extortion in other countries.
esalman commented on How long can it take to become a US citizen? usafacts.org/articles/how... · Posted by u/speckx
Takes for fucking ever. I worked with my girlfriend -> fiancee -> wife through her transition between student visa, H1B, green card, citizenship. The whole process took about 7 years.
7 years is nothing.
My wife is here for 15 years now and I am 10. It will be 3 more years before we can apply for citizenship. Combined, the two of us will need over 30 years to become citizens. We already pay 6 figures in federal and state taxes.
I am saying that because it is much harder to find good documentation on using MATLAB on HPCs, a lot of computations on HPCs that use MATLAB are highly wasteful compared to if they had been written using a language and/or tools that make it much easier to use HPC resources more efficiently. I was NOT in any way saying that "universities are wasteful".