Let’s suppose one is tasked with a complex set of calculations where the input data loads from a database and the output data saves to a database. This has come up a number of times in my consulting work. There are 2 approaches: Use language of choice, read data, perform calculations, write data Work entirely …
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I don’t like JSON, or YAML. Moving on. Actually I’ve been exploring binary interchange formats. I am not the first to note that converting data from binary, to text, and back, is often suboptimal, especially for the not-uncommon use case of floating point numbers. With some projects I’ve been working with there is a lot …
I’ve been using some of these a lot for some psychometrics software developmont work. TAM: Test Analysis Modules (3.3-10 released 2019-08-23) sirt: Supplementary Item Response Theory Models (3.7-40 released 2019-11-04) mirt: Multidimensional Item Response Theory (1.31 released 2019-09-15) eRm: Extended Rasch Modeling (1.0-0 released 2019-06-06) catR: Generation of IRT Response Patterns under Computerized Adaptive Testing …
Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley Build impossible programs User-level threads……. with threads. – Paul Turner – Google
In general I’m in favor of people running with ideas of how to make a better software library or app. The more ideas that are manifest the more data people have to identify what works best. However, especially in the open source world, I sometimes feel like there is too much effort being spread around …
This is great to see.
LLVM just lost a contributor upset by the LLVM Community Code of Conduct. In my experience projects progress much faster when people are polite and decent. The fewer jerks on any team or platform, the better.
I believe the rise of so many new programming languages in the past few years is in response to a reconsideration and reflection of what people like and dislike about current programming languages and not yet finding a language that is as great as they imagine a language could be. I suspect someone could write …
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Like many developers I come across Stack Overflow pages with some frequency when performing research. I came across a question to which I had an answer and I decided to was time to try and contribute. Well, my answer was deleted, and then the question was deleted, and at no time did I get any …
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I’m interested in emulators, always have been, and I was wondering if anyone had used LLVM to write an emulator. I came across this highly detailed account which was a fun read: Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go It concludes stating that static recompilation is probably less practical than JIT, …