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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
This article expresses the ancient Python(/Matlab) v Fortran argument beautifully ... but it's kind of shocking that the argument is still going on at all. My generation came out of school happy to use FORTRAN indirectly, via a sc
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
Each field can make up whatever jargon is convenient. If we were talking about optics, then 'diffuse' and 'specular' would be adjectives that describe reflections. Fresnel reflection tends to mean specular reflection. Th
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
It's fun to complain about the lack of perfection in science, while posting on an instantaneous, free world-wide forum.
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
Big power boats go where they go. They may or may not even be looking in the direction they're moving.
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
The article claims this boat is over 200'.
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
It's strange how many times the article says 'chess software' has improved since (Turing's day, the 1990s, whenever). Sure, the software is better, but six orders of magnitude in hardware performance haven't hurt ei
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
Folks, folks! Can we not downvote loops at least? All we want, I think, are useful tools. For goodness' sake, isn't it obvious that loops are a useful tool? Not a compulsory tool, not a forbidden tool, not a foolish tool, not ob
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
HN's top-voted comment at this moment begins: "Why so much hate for loops?" The item cited as 'hate for loops' is an introduction to 'loopless' programming in J, a universally admired language developed by
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by oh_my_goodness 5y ago
Yes, it's a variation on the problem ... but sending many bits to the receiver is a really significant variation on just sending one bit. I'm not sure whether so many people would be intrigued to read "How to send a real numb