The closing keynote at RustConf is generally someone who is new to Rust or has never used Rust but can bring in an interesting perspective. Last year we had Joe Duffy, who I don't think has done much Rust aside from perhaps basic experimentation, but has a lot of relevant experience from running the Midori (Microsoft's safe systems language) project.
It's interesting because when I read about how Rust can rewrite iterators code into more performant direct loops I thought about Joe's blog posts that mentioned the same efforts for .NET. Also Span<T>. It seems .NET will have similar abstractions like Rust (of course not all can be migrated).
> -- Functional style
> require "fun" ()
> -- calculate sum(x for x^2 in 1..n)
> n = 100
> print(reduce(operator.add, 0, map(function(x) return x^2 end, range(n))))
328350
> -- Object-oriented style
> local fun = require "fun"
> -- calculate sum(x for x^2 in 1..n)
> print(fun.range(n):map(function(x) return x^2 end):reduce(operator.add, 0))
328350
> Lua Fun takes full advantage of the innovative tracing JIT compiler
to achieve transcendental performance on nested functional expressions.
Functional compositions and high-order functions can be translated into
efficient machine code. Can you believe it? Just try to run the example
above with `luajit -jdump` and see what happens:
The world's top body builders are certainly not vegan across the board...for example the actor/competing body builder who plays The Mountain on Game of Thrones consumes almost 2000 grams of animal fat daily[0].
Also no one should emulate top body builder diets unless they plan on working out like top body builders (e.g. 2-3 intensive training sessions a day).
You might be able to find a few vegan body builders but its certainly not the norm.
It would be seriously cool, though, if anyone here could leave a link as a citation to any article, tweet, FB page, whatevs that shows even one top body builder who is vegan as back up for the claim.
Here are some [1]. These are however not selected to be 'top' athletes, as far as I know.
I imagine that diet is irrelevant for athletic training, as long as it fulfills certain macro-nutrient requisites. Further, I image vegan athletes are only faced with the increased difficulty of finding and preparing quality sufficient food, compared to others with normative diets, due to lack of demand and meat centered cultures.
Finding an equivalent vegan alternative to chocolate pudding at <500g, 350kcal, 50g protein> for $2.5 [2] seems like a challenge. I'm sure that if they plan their diet, they can meet the same targets - whereas normative diets don't require you to plan anything really. You can just eat 2 of [2] and a chicken a day, and you're done (concerning only protein).
But then again, there are protein powders which balances it out, if we don't take price into account.
All in all, I think diet choices (assuming any choice to be a most healthy variant of chosen diet) mainly impacts long term health, and not short term goals such as muscle gains.
All comment had to say is some top body builders are vegan. Even some notable NFL players are/have been vegan.
Even then, they go out of their way to get enough protein - I think the person you replied to was trying to go for shock value but it was a pretty bad comment.
Exactly. If there was strong evidence for causality I would make a real effort to go vegan. But I suspect it's about being thin and having a high fiber diet, which doesn't require being vegan.
It's the ratio of plant protein to animal protein in the diet. So no you don't need to go hard vegan. But yes, it is the diet and there is hard evidence.
This is something I've had a great interest in for years and have read many studies where there is clearly correlation but so many obvious confounders that claims of casuality are just not supported by the data. If the summary of the sudy you linked is accurate (http://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutriti...) it is an example in that they studied people with low fat and high fiber diets, but had no group of high fat and high fiber diet. So is it the fat or the fiber or both? They also made no attempt to distinguish between types of fats. So is it animal fat +/- fiber or any/all fats +/- fiber? Further, they talked about fat and fiber not protein. Ultimately they made no claims about casuality, only correlation. Given more recent reports of the effects on diseases of fiber-fed gut bacteria it might be that it's the fiber that's important.
My personal question is, does a high fiber ketogenic diet (high fiber, high fat, low carb) raise or lower cancer risk? I don't know of strong evidence either way.
Thanks for that link. It's an excellent analysis of the actual data from the study. I'm part way into reading it and right away the author has thrashed some of the claims of the original study. It appears that even some of the basic claims of correlation aren't even correct.
Added: Schistosomiasis infection is such a huge cofounder for colorectal cancer rates that it is ridiculous to have claimed dietary cholesterol from animal sources as the cause.
Most users use it for adding push capabilities to their existing software. Eg you have a web app that uses a REST backend but you want updates to be forced into the browser instead of refreshing the page.
There are also those who use it for chat rooms, live analytics and event MMOs.
Real-time notifications, multiplayer games, status reports of some events happening continuosly without developing dedicated backend for it. These are the examples I could come up at the moment.
