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by pietroppeter 6y ago
"I'm eudaemonic to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.18. Python 2.7.18 is a special release. I refer, of course, to the fact that "2.7.18" is the closest any Python version number will ever approximate e,
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
and if you then fill in the top cell inside the egg you get a (small) exploder that will create four eggs. And if you fill in again the top egg (and only the top egg), you will get a more complex pattern result in a four gliders walking off
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
I found only a bunch of tweets about this. Somebody else understood what is going on?
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Two key contributors of pytest left the project(twitter.com)
6 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|3 comments
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
There is [Norm]( https://github.com/moigagoo/norm ) that goes in that direction. [ormin]( https://github.com/araq/ormin ) takes a different twist
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
Sad news. Their API was very good. What will be a good alternative with global coverage and support for daily detail a few years in the past?
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
I like the concept and I particularly like the way I feel nim shepherds me: * I very rarely need to come up with a name for a function or other identifier. The correct name can be reused for multiple use cases thanks to the type system and
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
> I can’t help but see parallels with Ancient Greece. The Ancient Greeks made tremendous breakthroughs in philosophy and mathematics–just think about Plato, Socrates, Euclid, or Pythagoras–but they had no technology to speak of. I can’t
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
A recent post on HN reminded me of this great forgotten book. Where you to read it, you will captivated by a different tale on the science and technology of “ancient Greeks” (more specifically of the Hellenistic period of second and third c
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The Revolution by Lucio Russo (1996) [pdf](ams.org)
2 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|1 comments
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
what if instead we have an approximate representation of an image through a highly composed number? we end up with a number theoretic compression technique.
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
My favorite symmetric 5 set Venn diagram: https://xkcd.com/2122/
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Why can a Venn diagram for 4 sets not be constructed with circles(math.stackexchange.com)
1 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|1 comments
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
What about vb.net?
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On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning(ryxcommar.com)
2 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|0 comments
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How I survived the transition from developer to manager(blog.toggl.com)
2 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|0 comments
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A graphical user interface for Git(github.com)
1 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|0 comments
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Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms(pvigier.github.io)
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
> What is the philosophy driving its design? I think that the [nim github tagline]( https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim ) expresses well the philosphy: "Nim is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming langua
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
see also: https://nim-lang.org/araq/v1.html
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
question 2: how does science communication about math works? the article is clearly a press release from the university were the result was found. it has a very catchy title, while the linked research is more dry. you can find many articles
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
question 1: how does this infinite lottery works? not clear from this piece nor from the original article, which I was able to find on arxiv, and where the infinite lottery is never mentioned (the results is stated in terms of moern set the
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The ever-winning lottery ticket: Mathematicians solve a dusty mystery(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|2 comments
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by pietroppeter 7y ago
related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102950 there one finds a reference on how to download the latest edition of statistical rethinking book mentioned in the post.
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How Does Stan Work?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3 points by pietroppeter 7y ago|1 comments
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by pietroppeter 8y ago
> we need to be able to extend it to do things like reasoning, learning causality, and exploring the world in order to learn and acquire information. Having recently read the Book of Why by Judea Pearl, I found particularly interesting h