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Meta Rabbit
Personal blog · metarabbit.wordpress.comscienceprogrammingwriting
Meta Rabbit is a personal blog at metarabbit.wordpress.com about science, programming and writing. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “I tried Haskell for 5 years”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Meta Rabbit's post "Why Python is Better than Matlab for Scientific Software" is linked as one of several Python-vs-Matlab articles. The blog also covers Python startup overhead and NumPy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rabbit goes meta(genomics)
Most-linked posts?
- I tried Haskell for 5 years3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-02
- Grit: A non-existent alternative interface to Git2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-28
What Hacker News says?
I can't help but interpret your response as "Python 3 is better in every way ... for the ways I think are important." For some of my programs, Python startup time is the main overhead. I avoid NumPy and SciPy if at all possible because they have a huge startup overhead. Some of this is inherent in those packages. NumPy internally imports everything so someone can do "import numpy as np; np.package.subpackage.module.…
Comment linking /2017/11/18/numpy-scipy-backwards-stability-debate-and-why-freezing-versions-is-not-the-solution/
on “Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3”Submitted I tried Haskell for 5 years as a story · 366 points
HN discussionWhich is a good reason not to work 60 hours regularly over the long term, but not a reason to never put in a 60 hour work week or even a few in a row. Elsewhere, I've written how it may be better to switch between periods of very long hours and downtime rather than a steady pace: https://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/average-work-wee...
Comment linking /2014/02/26/average-work-week-is-over-a-few-thoughts-on-productivity/
on “Research does not say that people produce more when working 40 hours per week”Submitted Python’s Weak Performance Matters as a story · 298 points
HN discussionPS. I found these articles useful Python vs Matlab http://www.pyzo.org/python_vs_matlab.html 10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons it Doesn’t) http://www.stat.washington.edu/~hoytak/blog/whypython.html Why Python is Better than Matlab for Scientific Software http://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/why-python-is-bet...
Comment linking /2013/10/18/why-python-is-better-than-matlab-for-scientific-software/
on “20+ machine learning tools in python”Submitted Research does not say that people produce more when working 40 hours per week as a story · 221 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python as a story · 134 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diskhash – Disk-based, persistent hash tables as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Python is Better than Matlab for Scientific Software as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python “lists” are not lists. A history as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, research does not say that you produce more when working 40 hours per week as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I tried Haskell for 5 years and here's how it was as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some of your tools may be older than you think as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I tried Haskell for 5 years and here’s how it was as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grit: A non-existent alternative interface to Git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards Typed Pipelines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How (Jupyter) Notebooks Should Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The relationship between GPD and Olympic medals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Programming as Liberal Arts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted People are Right Not to Share Scientific Code… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grit: A non-existent alternative interface to Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did anyone in Santa Clara County get Covid-19? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Science Communication as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Average Work-week is Over, a few Thoughts on Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper-Based Secret Santa Protocol as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A few interesting statistical facts as a story · 1 points
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