Top all-time · #15692
wrathematics
Personal blog · librestats.comprogrammingdata
wrathematics is a personal blog at librestats.com about programming and data. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “R at 12,000 Cores”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link wrathematics' blog posts about R, including how much of R is written in other languages and R running on 12,000 cores. The comments cite the posts as support and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- R at 12,000 Cores2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-17
What Hacker News says?
R is really LISP with syntactic sugar and bindings to well respected high-performance FORTRAN matrix and math optimization codes. http://librestats.com/2011/08/27/how-much-of-r-is-written-in... It's great for bleeding edge scientific research. The results of many languages don't always match for advanced algorithms, but the open source nature of R, makes it easier to identify the problem areas. The R-core interprete…
Comment linking /2011/08/27/how-much-of-r-is-written-in-r/
on “R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use”Submitted R at 12,000 Cores as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is an example of parallel system that i like: http://librestats.com/2012/10/16/r-at-12000-cores/ . i haven't done anything near this scale, although, that would be a goal to aim for. Although, i am not entirely certain if the above link answers your specific query, because the cores in the link are not housed in what would be considered a single computer. Anton is a super computer unlike the libmpi based soluti…
Comment linking /2012/10/16/r-at-12000-cores/
on “Anton (computer)”Submitted A “did you mean?” Feature for R as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “F-bombs” in GitHub Commits as a story · 1 points
HN discussion