Eric Pfahl

Code, data, stats, and physics… these are a few of my favorite things.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@PicturesFoIder 60 + 15

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@thmsmlr @sean_moriarity @livebookdev Cool. Look forward to hearing about it.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@louispilfold Gloenix

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@thmsmlr @sean_moriarity @livebookdev I appreciate your detailed write-up! I just did the basics: https://t.co/tmmUK4B6Rq

I’m curious: Did you try it with zstd? I chose an Elixir implementation at random. Noticeable speed up, but worse performance on my data set.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@thmsmlr @sean_moriarity @livebookdev I also had fun implementing this in Elixir!

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@GarrettRMooney @PhDemetri Of the two I’ve only used Fly, and it was a really nice experience.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@GarrettRMooney @PhDemetri Fly? Render?

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@toomanyspectra Nah, units don’t work out. 😉

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@Astro_Wright @toomanyspectra Are you saying it’s probably not aliens? Because it’s probably not aliens.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@LukeGessler New weekend project unlocked.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@bielleogy The Morris-Thorne wormhole paper. References Contact in the abstract (not the title). But this paper and Contact had a tight coupling.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@codestirring @elixirlang One of things I most appreciate about Elixir is its flexibility. Maybe implement a new language in Elixir? For example, miniKanren is always a fun challenge, and a great introduction to logic programming.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@chrisalbon Wow. So many conda recommendations. Try asdf.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@noah_greifer Don’t think anyone mentioned this set of excellent notes: https://t.co/m2ARyXYGcV

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@munificentbob I just did that. So real. So true.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@remilouf Great question. I’m not writing Python these days, but when I was, I went several years without writing a class, other than for custom exceptions. Mostly functional Python is possible and, I think, so beneficial.

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

Two of the hardest things about cognitively demanding work are:

1) You can’t really make it go faster. There are tricks to getting unstuck but it usually proceeds very nonlinearly.

2) It often looks like it could have been done in a far shorter amount of time when it’s over.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@stevenstrogatz Omnigraffle is pretty complete, but there’s a learning curve. Excalidraw (web app) is great for simple illustrations.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@heyJTK They’re both terrible.

[Eric Pfahl @edpfahl]

@BarakShoshany Will there be _explicit_ physics content?