gmfawcett

59 ms·

1. 841.▲
   by gmfawcett 12y ago

   Square the circle! [] () Just like the old geometry problem. :)
2. 842.▲
   by gmfawcett 13y ago

   If you're interested in this, you might also enjoy "Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours." It uses Haskell rather than C as the implementation language. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Schem
3. 843.▲
   by gmfawcett 13y ago

   You might also enjoy Matías Giovannini's write-up of a typed concatenative language in Ocaml: http://alaska-kamtchatka.blogspot.ca/2009/01/essence-of-conc...
4. 844.▲
   by gmfawcett 13y ago

   The Faculty of Science at my university used to have (still has?) two office-cats named Teaching and Research. (Of course, a faculty office isn't remotely like a battleship: there's far less warfare on a battleship!)
5. 845.▲
   by gmfawcett 13y ago

   > If frequentist and Bayesian inference were programming functions, with inputs being statistical problems, then the two would be different in what they return to the user. The frequentist inference function would return a number, repres