Readit Newsoccupy_paul_st commented on The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games leidenmedievalistsblog.nl... · Posted by u/jsnell
Since a common critique of city sims is that they are not organic enough, it's exciting to see this case where the mechanics are TOO organic!
occupy_paul_st commented on How to calculate the alignment between BERT and spaCy tokens gist.github.com/tamuhey/a... · Posted by u/polm23
Clicked on this thinking it was some kind of crazy decentralized crypto algorithm... yeesh, I gotta spend less time on the blockchain!!
occupy_paul_st commented on An Update on the UMN Affair lwn.net/SubscriberLink/85... · Posted by u/chmaynard
> Of the remaining four, one of them was an attempt to insert a bug that was, itself, buggy, so the patch was actually valid
Absolutely legendary
> They worked with 11 patients, all of who had obesity and type 2 diabetes and take an oral drug that helps control glucose levels, called metformin.
This is such a tiny and specific sample compared to the unqualified claim they make in the title. Unfortunately, this level of rigor seems to be par for the course in the world of nutrition.
occupy_paul_st commented on From First Principles: Why Scala? lihaoyi.com/post/FromFirs... · Posted by u/lihaoyi
What newer hybrid languages besides Kotlin can cover the benefits you can get with Scala: a solid ecosystem (both for Scala and Java) for developing web applications, microservices, data processing, and good performance.
Julia, Rust, and Elixir are all great, but popularity, ecosystem are not there yet.
I actually haven't seen a language that can do everything that Scala can do, so in a lot of senses I agree with you!
The alternative is to use multiple different languages to fill different niches. In theory this sounds suboptimal but I think it might actually be easier to learn multiple simpler languages than it is to learn Scala.
BTW according to PYPL: Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Rust are now more popular than Scala.