[HN Gopher] Data Science in Julia for Hackers ___________________________________________________________________ Data Science in Julia for Hackers Author : dklend122 Score : 113 points Date : 2021-03-19 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (datasciencejuliahackers.com) (TXT) w3m dump (datasciencejuliahackers.com) | snicker7 wrote: | This book is being written entirely in Pluto notebooks! | jjoonathan wrote: | I had heard of Pluto notebooks but didn't know that they were | truly different. The elevator pitch seems to be | | Pluto: Jupyter without hidden state. | | I can't wait to try it out. I did my thesis work in Julia ~5 | years ago but abandoned it afterwards precisely because state | management was so painful. At that time, Julia took 30 seconds | to start (compile the plotting library), so you basically had | to use live sessions, and they had all the usual stateful foot- | guns, which made for a very painful overall experience. | Performance was still pretty rough last time I tried it (build | caching on the libraries didn't happen on install and even | post-install wasn't Just Working), but Pluto sounds like a | strong enough mitigation to be worth a try! | iagovar wrote: | Really liked the introduction, it resonates a lot with what I've | been thinking for a while. | 6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: | Off topic, but this is a few spots below "Hacker's Guide to | Numerical Analysis" on the front page right now. It makes the | naming seem pretty silly. | | Hacker News presents: X is all you need for Hackers considered | harmful | junippor wrote: | "For hackers" is a trick so you don't discourage people in HN. | If you omit "for hackers", they'll say it has too much math and | therefore no practical use. These are the same kind of people | who think that the reason people use math is so they can feel | smart about themselves, because practical people who want to do | practical things don't need math - they have computers. | dracodoc wrote: | There really should be a better way to map values. There are | numerous functions in R for this, I believe there should be | similar functions in Julia. Is that because Julia have good | performance so people tend to write loop to deal with this kind | of task? And call this hacking? | | I tried paste the code but it was hard to read. You can search | Histograms in this page | https://datasciencejuliahackers.com/03_probability_intro.jl.... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-19 23:00 UTC)