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It looks great - nice work. I tried the french example and found it challenging and useful - a great addition to my duo lingo practice. So much so that I signed up. But in doing so I lost the credits that Id apparently acquired by completing the example which was a little disappointing. I hadnt seen the Easy French videos before - they look nice too.

Its a talk at a programming languages conference by a programming languages professor who moved into medicine to help diagnose and treat his son with a genetic condition. Its a great talk which simultaneously provides an introduction to biomedical research and knowledge based systems and provides some compelling cases for the benefit of combining the two. It also takes you through a journey that includes starting a company, working with the white house and being recruited to be the director of a university research institute.

Sunsetting Atom 4 years ago

This makes me sad as I very much prefer the atom approach to the git and github panels than the vscode approach. vscode is much faster for typescript development though.

in the uk, https://www.jobs.ac.uk/search/?keywords=RSE&location= gets you five hits today and I expect you would find more similar posts that werent currently branded research software engineer if you looked - the term is still quite new for many academic depts. One thing you'll need is patience if you want one of these positions - I remember being offerred an academic post three months after interviewing for the position and when I queried how on earth it could have taken so long to offer the post I was met with incredulity that there was an issue at all.

The King William's College quiz is set by a particular fee paying English school for its pupils every Christmas and published by the Guardian. Its full of English cultural references and designed to be hard. I assume the idea is that the pupils take it home for the holidays and work on it with their families. Each section has a theme that connects the answers in that section. My partner's family love wrangling out the odd answer or three between christmas and new year.

This is what Im looking for in this thread - accessible critiques of prolog. Could your first issue be solved by a i8ln framework? Im not sure I accept your second issue - why would someone who doesnt know anything about medicine build a prolog program about medicine? But further to this, is there value in articulating the results of a machine learning algorithm as a prolog program?

I have a lot of sympathy with this argument. Ive seen some projects recently that were heavily influenced by the agile manfesto with very little documentation where I particularly miss the high level stuff and justifications for some key decisions. I cant helping thinking that this was not the intention of the authors. I loved Django for the quality of its documentation from the get go.