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kiriliponi··on Reversing Choplifter
Ah! I can definitely relate to that ;-) Still can hear the rescue sound of people entering the chopper !!!
kiriliponi··on The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh
The cost of production and the price level required to balance the government's budget are two different things.
kiriliponi··on Firefox 74
+1, would love to circumvent this !
kiriliponi··on Separability, SVD and low-rank approximation of 2D image processing filters
Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing
kiriliponi··on Panopticon
There's a VR game called Panoptic based on the concept, it is worth checking out. The final version is to be released in a few weeks.

http://panopticgame.com/

(disclaimer: I know one of the person developing it)

kiriliponi··on How to Turn Physics into an Optimization Problem
Yup same here
kiriliponi··on Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)
I recommand David Beazley's talk from a recent PyCon India on a similar subject : https://youtu.be/r-A78RgMhZU

Mostly live coded, it really is pretty amazing but also quite insightful.

kiriliponi··on Ohio passes energy bill that bails out nuclear and coal plants, guts renewables
I googled "Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder", this is the first video that came up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKKzGybKb0
kiriliponi··on Python’s Weak Performance Matters
dask.dataframe might not help but dask.distributed could in that case.

I've had success using it on non vanilla stuff (i.e. code that could not get converted to play natively with numpy/pandas structures)

As a bonus, the nice profiling tools (built within dask) have also helped me improve the performance of the code.

See https://distributed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

kiriliponi··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
Same here! ;-)
kiriliponi··on Selling the Eiffel Tower, Twice
There's also a story about former French president Mitterrand apparent willingness to take it down in the 80's.
kiriliponi··on This tiny video camera makes everything you shoot look amazing
I must confess the video is making me feel pretty sick. Anyone else feels the same thing ?
kiriliponi··on This tiny video camera makes everything you shoot look amazing
Thanks for providing the video link
kiriliponi··on Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
Beaker notebook [1] seems to do precisely that, though I have yet to use it in practice.

[1] http://beakernotebook.com/index