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I got this year's signature and am pretty much pleased with it. I'd like to have GrapheneOS for it, too. But I guess, hardware (or marketing) is incompatible.
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Remote: Open to it.
Willing to relocate: yes / within Germany
Technologies: Software Design, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Science, Agile Development, Productization, Linux/CLI, Git, Docker, Databases, C++, Java, Python, R, MATLAB
Résumé/CV: https://l0x.de/files/cv.pdf
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://l0x.de/
I'm a passionate software engineer, computer and data scientist who loves to build stuff and enjoys being around people with the same mindset.
Posted by
mlu on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:04AM
from the self-post dept.
For someone who used to be very proficient in Java, what would be a good way to get back into the language again?I used to work professionally with it until about 2011/Java 7 - then pursued a university career (machine learning, data science, etc.), and now will likely get a job which again requires me to use Java. What resources would you recommend looking into for getting back on track? I'm...
Posted by
mlu on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:33AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Soon, I will finish my PhD (CS, some machine learning, some bioinformatics) and the question what to do next is becoming more and more present in my head. There are certainly enough companies which would fit my profile, however recently I started thinking of working in a nonprofit organization (NPO) where I can put my knowledge into action for a good cause. My main problem here is that I don't...
Sci-hub is great! I'm a researcher and use it multiple times a week. I wonder how it works - any insights?
Why did they let the people decide in a direct referendum in the first place? That seems like a terrible idea for such a complex matter.
For me personally, that's sad and good news at the same time.
After school, I did a 3-year training in a company and basically learned all my programming skills from using WebObjects in enterprise applications. Somehow it felt ancient already back then (around 2007). But I learned to like it a lot. Nowadays there are much more modern and mostly streamlined web frameworks...in contrast to the huge bulk of components WebObjects brought with it.
Now, I wonder what my old company will do now. As far as I know, they're still using it.
Thanks for the blog article. My laptop hardware is quite similar to yours. I might give FreeBSD a try again!
Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm certainly going to have a look!
What are the limitations of the Linux compability layer?
I know FreeBSD (or *BSD in general) is still used heavily in server environments.
Is anyone using it on the desktop as well?
I always wanted to give it a try, but then I'm hesitant because of lacking hardware support. I remember struggling with Intel KMS support in one of the earlier releases. Is this still a problem?
This is the result what one would expect. Scientists (until recently) have only been able to sequence species which can be cultured in the laboratory (you need massive amounts of DNA for sequencing). But in fact, more than 90 percent of all microbial species cannot be cultured in the lab and hence (until recently) could not be sequenced and stayed unknown. However, in the past few years, "Next next generation sequencing" (that's how I like to call it) techniques emerged and we are now able to sequence nearly everything. The umbrella terms "metagenomics" and "single-cell sequencing" are often used for such new methods and have huuuge potential in many, many fields. Basically, the new methods eliminate the culturing step and instead have novel techniques for amplifying DNA from only a single strand.
This looks great! I used Julia in my Master's thesis and it was very fast and easy to use. One thing however was annoying: The lack of shared memory parallel computing. Unfortunately, in Julia, each parallel process has its own memory such that you have to keep multiple instances of your data and/or move data around all the time. This can be a deal breaker if working with very large data sets and actually is preventing me from using Julia even more. But I'm sure, it's on the right track.
I don't get the point why someone would learn a new keyboard layout.
- It is very hard to learn since muscle memory is very difficult to change.
- I think it would take me a while to be as fast as on my current layout QWERT[ZY].
- I see no real advantage for learning a new keyboard layout. None of my friends and coworkers ever complained about keyboard layout and the urge to change it.
- When you want to get things done, learning a new layout would be the last thing you want.
- You may not have your new keyboard layout available at different workplaces.
So I think this is just a hipster thing. Prove me wrong :)
I'm German. What kind of proposal is this?
As already pointed out these words are constructed from other more basic words. As the German language allows for this, some people like it to juggle around and come up with (more or less) funny words.
I guess the majority of English-speaking natives find this funny.
No, I just installed it from Germany.
I once programmed a swarm simulation as a project for a course I attended. You can set various parameters of the swarm and introduce a predator which can try to eat inidividuals of the swarm. You then can set a bunch of escape strategies. This was pretty much fun when I wrote it.
Just uploaded it to my bitbucket repository in case anyone is interested.
https://bitbucket.org/mlux/swarm-simulation