how to calculate where your first decompression stop is

[Wibble]

gotta wonder what reason one could possibly have for embedding a pile of javascrapt in a postgres database...

 

[BlueTrin]

Since pretty much all high-performance linear algebra packages are still based on BLAS/LINPACK and all the trendy “ML” stuff is pretty much linear algebra in a wig, there’s probably more FORTRAN code used around the world than ever!

You mean compiled FORTRAN

 

[dmaziuk]

See also: "cortana, format see colon slash eff why enter"

(Although that pre-dates cortana by a few decades).

 

[BlueTrin]

You, Sir, must be an optimist: these days everyone who's anyone does algebra in NumPy.

NumPy is MATLAB reimplemented in Python: two wrongs that make you wish you were writing FORTRAN with a deck of cards and a hand punch.

NumPy can use BLAS and LAPACK (I think)

 

[BlueTrin]

I found the top answer interesting to read: How does BLAS get such extreme performance?

I don’t know the veracity of the information though.

 

[BlueTrin]

Obligatory Intel MKL link

Performance Comparison of OpenBLAS* and Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel...

Today, scientific and business industries collect large amounts of data, analyze them, and make decisions based on the outcome of the analysis. This paper compares the performance of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS), libraries OpenBLAS, and the Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL).

www.intel.com

 

[BlueTrin]

(Won’t make you deco faster BTW)

 

[dmaziuk]

NumPy can use BLAS and LAPACK (I think)

I meant, the API is loosely MATLAB. Which, if you never had the "pleasure", is a whole 'nother kind of pain.

 

[jamesnvc]

You, Sir, must be an optimist: these days everyone who's anyone does algebra in NumPy.

NumPy is MATLAB reimplemented in Python: two wrongs that make you wish you were writing FORTRAN with a deck of cards and a hand punch.

NumPy can use BLAS and LAPACK (I think)

Numpy is pretty much what I was thinking of - last time I looked, it uses LAPACK internally for many of its operations (which is part of why building all the python stuff can be such a bear without precompiled wheels - you need a FORTRAN compiler to build some libs!)

 

[J-Vo]

Ugg JS and Python mentioned in the same thread.

I only use JS long enough to call my Perl code, and I gave up in PY when I was told to use a spreadsheet module to make it pretend to build an array.