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by omaranto 9y ago
Is the problem that you want formulas to make sense on their own without the surrounding text? That's not how math is meant to be read. Formulas are reserved for only a few thoughts that are best expressed in that concise notation. The
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by omaranto 9y ago
The phrase "an A to B compiler" might not gain anything from changing compiler to transpiler, but the phrase "an A compiler" does.
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by omaranto 9y ago
It was removed for reasons outlined in this PEP: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/
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by omaranto 10y ago
A one-liner in Awk is almost certainly also a one-liner in Perl.
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by omaranto 10y ago
Not necessarily. You might just be extra patient, or not use many plugins, or only use well behaved ones that down slow down startup that much. I remember years ago when I used Vim I had pretty slow start up time for a while but narrowed th
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by omaranto 10y ago
I would think that the rationale for any language with the syntax of Lisp but semantics similar to X is obvious: you want a language like X (that can be used for the things that X is used for) but with the meta-programming capabilities prov
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by omaranto 10y ago
The same? That's pretty odd. You've never had fun without learning something at the same time, nor learned something without having fun. For me only one of those things is true: I think I always have fun learning, but I certainly
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by omaranto 10y ago
Oh, you meant "multiple of the identity matrix" when you said "diagonal matrix"?
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by omaranto 10y ago
That bit about the stationary distribution not changing if you add a diagonal matrix sounds completely wrong to me. Let me see if I understand what you mean. Given a matrix M with non-negative entries (and no row of just zeros), let S(M) de
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by omaranto 10y ago
Jakub Travnik has a better version where the image includes the necessary constant. http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html
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by omaranto 10y ago
Jakub Travnik has got your back. http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html
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by omaranto 10y ago
Years ago I rented movies at Blockbuster Video and one time as I was leaving the store with my rental a young man with a clipboard approached me to conduct a survey about the customer service. Part of the conversation went like this: Him: D
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by omaranto 10y ago
How do you know it's not also the target audience?
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by omaranto 10y ago
Do you mean not paired with "within"; that is, "in Wine and without" instead of "within Wine and without"?
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by omaranto 10y ago
I wonder how they chose the name. "Monero" means cartoonist in Spanish.
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by omaranto 10y ago
Or maybe Haskell is also a hybrid? I know about the type theoretic accounting tricks used to stay pure, but when I really need unboxed mutable arrays and several tight loops, I just use the ST monad and write code that is psychologically co
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by omaranto 10y ago
It's a math and English curriculum used in the US up to the 12th grade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_In...
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by omaranto 10y ago
I hope the kids of tomorrow get better homework, not necessarily less of it (although in some places they definitely should also get less of it).
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by omaranto 10y ago
Minor correction: you probably meant that books often define real numbers as equivalence classes of sequences of rational numbers. I've never seen a definition of real numbers as a single sequences in a textbook, not because it is
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by omaranto 10y ago
Configure your editor to do it for you, just like most people do for closing braces.
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by omaranto 10y ago
I'm partial to Emacs on Windows. Install a few extra GNU utilities and for the most part you won't even be able to tell you are on Windows. :) (It's really only a few: I just use aspell, diff, grep and find.)
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by omaranto 10y ago
Maybe it used to, but Guile 2.0 is quite a bit faster than Emacs Lisp. Guile 2.2 is faster still.
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by omaranto 10y ago
Also both of the inequalities in the list comprehensions are strict, so it removes duplicates in addition to sorting.
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by omaranto 10y ago
The quicksort example seems oddly named, I would have called it "unique" or "removeDuplicates". If you change one of the inequalities, say ">" to ">=", then it does sort (without removing duplic
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by omaranto 10y ago
Oh, while the landing page doesn't mention Haskell, the documentation does (it says they don't use the name Haskell in an attempt to avoid the "26 years of psychology and perception that was built around the language").
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by omaranto 10y ago
Looks like they don't acknowledge it on the landing page, but this is probably an implementation of Haskell, or of a dialect of Haskell.
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by omaranto 10y ago
That's odd. I wonder if these people that like looong lines are mostly younger people that have read more from screens than books (but not so young that they've read more from phones than computer screens :))? A book with very lon
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by omaranto 10y ago
> More was expected of the audience back then. The following year Star Wars was released, so I guess 1976 was the last year of movies with complex dialogue. :) Or maybe, instead, there has always been a wide range of dialogue complexity
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by omaranto 10y ago
What's the difference between transpiling and pesudo-transpiling? (Even if you meant pseudo-transpiling, I still don't know what the difference between that and transpiling is.)
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by omaranto 10y ago
Or Chicken.

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