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by baruchel 7y ago
Purpose of the Decimal module is not really arbitrary precision computation but rather exact computation on decimal numbers wherever it matters (financial arithmetic, etc.). This module should never be used for scientific purposes.
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by baruchel 7y ago
I can't believe that nobody has posted https://xkcd.com/2142/ yet!
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by baruchel 7y ago
May I also ask for an invitation? My mail is my current pseudo on HN followed by @riseup.net Thank you by advance. Regards.
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by baruchel 7y ago
One thing that I think too many people forget is: you actually want to be spied by China (change with any relevant country) rather than by your own country because your own country is much more likely interested by you than China! I always
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by baruchel 7y ago
Why submitting this page containing red "NEW 2016-12-16" words on it? GMP is one of my favorite libraries, but is there something new about it?
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by baruchel 8y ago
IMHO, Inform6 (which is a true object-oriented programming language) is much more powerful than Inform7. I tried both and found that: I7 is not consistent and often ambiguous: some pieces of code would get broken after inserting a perfectly
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by baruchel 8y ago
Did you draw the pictures yourself? I really like the long final comic story, and several times thought about making some roguelike ascii game with this background (choosing a guild with specific skills, killings various kinds of bugs, etc.
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by baruchel 8y ago
Author of the paper here! I am very glad to see someone posting a link to my paper; feel free to ask questions about it. Regards.
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by baruchel 8y ago
I recently published a new crazy convolution formula at https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08982 (see last formulæ of the paper). I just submitted it to a journal and am waiting for the answer. Discussion is welcome!
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Some new insights into Karatsuba's algorithm(arxiv.org)
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by baruchel 8y ago
My ePub version of the paper: https://github.com/baruchel/misc/tree/master/contribs
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by baruchel 8y ago
You are right, but sometimes, I don't see how you can easily achieve the same task without using the asterisk. For instance, if you want to plot a list of (x,y) coordinates which is likely to happen quite often, you can do : plot
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by baruchel 8y ago
> And in practice it's hard to find a concatenative language which would be used seriously, not just in a few hobby projects. One could argue that piping commands in the shell is a very serious use of concatenative syntax.
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by baruchel 8y ago
Reading your comment suddenly made me remember about the "Voyage to India" by Gonçalo M. Tavares; maybe you would enjoy this recent book written in verses. Unfortunately I couldn't find any link to some good review online
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Show HN: Playing with exceptions inside lambda expressions in Python(baruchel.github.io)
2 points by baruchel 8y ago|1 comments
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Journey of a Single Line(bldgblog.com)
1 points by baruchel 8y ago|0 comments
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by baruchel 8y ago
This sounds fascinating. Is Bloom worth spending some time on it with no specific goal, as I did for instance by solving problems from the Euler Project with J and APL some years ago (only for improving my skills and discovering new concept
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Show HN: Fast convolution algorithms with Python types(github.com)
4 points by baruchel 9y ago|0 comments
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HAKMEM memo in ePub format(github.com)
2 points by baruchel 9y ago|0 comments
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by baruchel 9y ago
Another attempt for a quite similar idea is Cartograph http://connary.com/cartograph.html
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Python Obfuscation #1(baruchel.github.io)
1 points by baruchel 9y ago|0 comments
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Implementing APL rules for broadcasting into Numpy(gist.github.com)
5 points by baruchel 9y ago|0 comments
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Playing with variables in Python(baruchel.github.io)
2 points by baruchel 9y ago|0 comments
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A conjectured continued fraction for φᵠ (where φ means the golden ratio)(math.stackexchange.com)
1 points by baruchel 10y ago|0 comments
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Lambdascript – A new pure functional language built on top of Python(github.com)
116 points by baruchel 10y ago|50 comments
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Fast convolution algorithms with Python types(github.com)
2 points by baruchel 10y ago|0 comments
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A fast and (possibly) new algorithm for performing the division of large numbers(mathoverflow.net)
2 points by baruchel 10y ago|0 comments
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A module emulating call/cc in Python with a nice syntax(github.com)
2 points by baruchel 10y ago|0 comments
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Version 1.2 of tco for performing tail-call optimization in Python is released(github.com)
3 points by baruchel 10y ago|0 comments
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Explaining functional aspects in python(baruchel.github.io)
1 points by baruchel 11y ago|0 comments

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