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Play 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel(youtube.com)
5 points by blindseer 4y ago|2 comments
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by blindseer 4y ago
> I like named parameters for self-documenting code. Julia allows named parameters but naming them doesn't provide any flexibility with regard to their position when calling the function. I don't understand this complaint? &quo
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by blindseer 4y ago
The idea is that if you just wanted to send someone something to read you could send them a PDF or word document. If I wanted to present it you could build a ppt. And having the source for this un Markdown to use with pandoc is nice.
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by blindseer 4y ago
I agree. What I've learnt from the last few years (decade?) is that you can make pretty much any claim on the internet, and you'll find an audience that agrees with that claim. If you dress up your delivery, your persona, your app
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by blindseer 4y ago
I find something like this a lot more readable: https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/ReadableRegex.jl It is in Julia, but if you have it installed locally it’s just a few taps away. You can even generate the regex, and use t
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by blindseer 4y ago
I found it! If anyone else is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32300466
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Ask HN: Help – Does anyone remember an app was shared here about words for iOS?
1 points by blindseer 4y ago|1 comments
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by blindseer 4y ago
Nim is garbage collected / reference counted by default (but there's a way to turn it off, there's lots of GC options). It also ships with a much more batteries included standard library. Nim has operating overloading, dynami
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by blindseer 4y ago
> A better catchphrase for Julia might be "The best expressiveness / performance tradeoff you have ever seen". Man, Jakob just has a way of writing that gets right to the point. Nice post. My only complaint about the post
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by blindseer 4y ago
If you could put even a single button on the "card" itself, then it'll open up a whole layer of game design. This isn't an actual game, but I'm thinking it would be great to pick a card face up that's "red
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by blindseer 4y ago
I’m not saying you are wrong, I’ve done the same thing, although I’ve started to think more deeply about how and when to reveal content. Edward Tufte on the other hand suggests never “revealing” content since he claims that’s treating the a
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by blindseer 4y ago
The first thing I thought when reading this blogpost was "Can I send this to a Julia core dev? Would they understand how much nicer error messages are in other ecosystems?" I think even basic things like the order of error message
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by blindseer 4y ago
Yes exactly! I don't want my handwriting to be converted to text and displayed to me, just converted to text and stored in the background for searching.
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by blindseer 4y ago
I just want an eink tablet that lets me search my handwriting using grep. It's almost 2023, why doesn't something like this exist!?!
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by blindseer 4y ago
If you asked Elon (atleast before he stepped into Twitter HQ) I'm sure he'd disagree with you, and he'd claim good ideas can come from anywhere and it shouldn't matter who they are or if they are important. It remains to
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by blindseer 4y ago
You are giving Musk too much credit. He’s a classic control freak and micromanager, and right now he’s trying to run twitter like 6 person start-up that running low on funds.
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by blindseer 4y ago
I hadn’t seen this emails before. I’m surprised by how outward looking and myopic at the same time Zuck’s emails are, this one particularly so (the one about chat bots also comes to mind). Ask yourself where you were in 2015 and see if you
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by blindseer 4y ago
These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely u
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by blindseer 4y ago
I'd like to see a way to specify interfaces / traits, in the base package itself. I would also like to see a better test suite, with the ability to run a single test if I want to. Test Driven Development on a large project is a ni
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by blindseer 4y ago
I wish Julia moved away from using abstract types and concrete types and moved away from "inheritance", and instead decided to tackle traits full on. Traits in Julia are SO powerful but currently are hacky or third party enabled w
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by blindseer 4y ago
I did something like this a long time ago, and installing clang, gcc or ghc took FOREVER. I think I spent a whole day trying to install qmk just because various things required compiling. Granted my computer is old (MBP 2012). I'm not
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by blindseer 4y ago
Great improvements! Congrats on the release. I don't like the ergonomics of `mutable struct` vs (immutable) `struct`. Adding `const` seems like another step in the wrong direction. Right now, there's `struct` + `Ref{T}` fields for
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by blindseer 4y ago
I think the knowledge graph in this case is mostly derived from first principles, e.g. understand roasting, searing, broiling etc and you can apply that to any vegetable or meat. Ideally one would be able to learn language with the same kin
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by blindseer 4y ago
I tried the app too and experienced exactly the same thing. I’m surprised the app is getting as much positive reception on here as it is. Sure it is cute and “gamey”, but I don’t particularly think it’s even useful. I’d rather have the know
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by blindseer 4y ago
Did you mean to reply to me? Or perhaps another comment of mine? If not, I don't follow. Edit: It looks like abhimanyuaryan is blindly spamming suggestions to write tests in this thread (???). This is a case where I agree in principle
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by blindseer 4y ago
This is absolutely the right answer. You've mentioned you are an F1 student, and that unfortunately has a lot of limitations on your work. Getting your professor to fund your work as an Research Appointment could work. My understanding
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by blindseer 4y ago
If I may Viral, I suspect one takeaway from Yuri's criticism (at least it was a takeaway for me) is that with multiple dispatch correctness bugs like the ones listed are hard to find (impossible even). How would you respond to that cri
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by blindseer 4y ago
My approach has been by default to never use types in functions, and if I use types, use the most abstract type possible, only in order to trigger dispatch. 1) It is just hard to explain this to people that work under me. 2) types in funct
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by blindseer 4y ago
Thanks for that explanation!
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by blindseer 4y ago
The example using Measurements.jl only works as a good example for composibility if you use `Number` as the type for the argument. If you happen to use Int then it doesn't work: using Measurements plus_one(x::Int) = x + 1 plus

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