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bike4beer
9y ago
I love Feynman he was an entertainer, but honestly, even CalTech admitted that nobody really advanced in understanding or created anything out his works, its all like intellectual mind candy. People who understand things who can roll up the
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bike4beer
9y ago
About two years ago, and +2,000 followers I deleted my twitter account. Why pray tell? Because they wanted my cell phone number, and my personal Identification, not unlike paypal. Twitter was anonymous, and now its not; I think its not grow
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bike4beer
10y ago
Read Feynman's book "Surely your joking Dr. Feynman", he's got an entire chapter on safe cracking. Yep, I remember in high school, in fact it was in Pasadena not far from Cal Tech, I don't remember who, but somehow
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bike4beer
10y ago
Really what does this have to do with APL ( Ken Iverson )?? * This is NOT APL. Futhark is a functional language, we will start with the obligatory factorial program: fun fact (n: i32): i32 = reduce ( ) 1 (map (1+) (iota n)) This has n
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10y ago
My first language back in 1970, then if you wanted to 'program' you had a choice, punch cards and use ASM or Cobol/Fortran, or use a selectric typewriter and do APL. APL is a natural language for those who love math, however