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David Ketcheson
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The comments on this question (and on its answer) are a fascinating look at how scientists from one field can be eager to (mis)judge the social norms in another.

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As a rule, I don't discuss politics on the internet.  But this has hurt too many of the people I love.  

The linked article is an editorial by Desmond Tutu.

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An illustrated guide to limiters
Or: how to interpolate non-smooth data without creating wiggles

This is a Jupyter Notebook that explains slope limiters, including TVD limiters and WENO, with code and interactive examples.  At the very bottom is an animation showing how several different methods behave for advection of a Gaussian and a square wave.

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Shaheen II is now in KSA.
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RESEARCH NEWS: After much anticipation, KAUST’s new Cray XC40 supercomputer, Shaheen II, arrived at KAUST yesterday! As the system is being assembled, stay tuned for upcoming updates and interviews from the University’s leadership and supercomputing team.

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Do you have a Python project that produces plots?  Would you like to be able to automatically test whether those plots are correct?  Here's one way to do it.

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I have only one word for this mathoverflow question and its 13 upvotes: Wow.

If you're not familiar, 13 upvotes is a huge number for MO.

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An illustrated guide to limiters
Or: how to interpolate non-smooth data without creating wiggles

This is a Jupyter Notebook that explains slope limiters, including TVD limiters and WENO, with code and interactive examples.  At the very bottom is an animation showing how several different methods behave for advection of a Gaussian and a square wave.

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Know anyone who could help with this?

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I rarely watch talks, but this was worthwhile.  The speaker verbalizes some programming principles that I have been slowly learning over years of experience and errors.

"Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path."

I should mention that I found this via Slant, which seems pretty useful too:

http://www.slant.co/?tag=development

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Do you have a Python project that produces plots?  Would you like to be able to automatically test whether those plots are correct?  Here's one way to do it.
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