With Altair, you can spend more time understanding your data and its meaning. Altair’s API is simple, friendly and consistent and built on top of the powerful Vega-Lite visualization grammar. This elegant simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code.
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One week into my first year physics course at the University of Michigan, a professor assigned a problem set that required simulating some many-body system. It was due Friday. That was the week I learned my first programming language, Matlab.
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In this post, I want to convince you that nurseries aren’t quirky or idiosyncratic at all, but rather a new control flow primitive that’s just as fundamental as for loops or function calls. And furthermore, the other approaches we saw above – thread spawning and callback registration – should be removed entirely and replaced with nurseries.
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NetChain won a best paper award at NSDI 2018 earlier this month. By thinking outside of the box (in this case, the box is the chassis containing the server), Jin et al. have demonstrated how to build a coordination service (think Apache ZooKeeper) with incredibly low latency and high throughput.
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