dzhang314

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   by dzhang314 2y ago

   "divide instead of multiply" is _precisely_ the thing that units help with. If you keep track of them correctly, and you know the units of the result you want, then it's impossible to make that mistake. (Of course there are o
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   by dzhang314 4y ago

   I'd estimate that there's an easy order-of-magnitude improvement (~10x) just from implementing a simple error-correction mechanism -- a Reed-Solomon code ought to be good enough that we can take the squares down to 10x10, maybe ev
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   by dzhang314 4y ago

   One more thing: the choice of Wolfram Mathematica as an implementation language was a deliberate decision on my part. Not for any technical reason -- YouTubeDrive doesn't use any of Mathematica's symbolic math capabilities -- bu
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   by dzhang314 4y ago

   Hey everybody! I'm David, the creator of YouTubeDrive, and I never expected to see this old project pop up on HN. YouTubeDrive was created when I was a freshman in college with questionable programming abilities, absolutely no knowledg
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   by dzhang314 4y ago

   Yep! I'm the creator of YouTubeDrive, and there's absolutely nothing in the code that depends on the symbolic manipulation capabilities of Wolfram Mathematica -- you could easily port it to Python, C++, whatever. However, there ar