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by rotifer 5y ago
To the section "Popular Math Books" I would add almost anything by Julian Havil. John D. Cook referred to him as a writer of "serious recreational mathematics" [1]. I would probably put his "Nonplussed!" and
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by rotifer 5y ago
You have an unnecessary dependency... :-) System.in.transferTo(System.out);
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by rotifer 5y ago
From a bit later in the trip is a photo from the shore of Manicouagan Reservoir. According to Wikipedia [1], it's an annular lake formed about 214 million years ago by the impact of a meteor 5 km in diameter. It has an outer diameter
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by rotifer 5y ago
That's what TDD seems to mean to Edwin Brady, whose book is "Type-Driven Development with Idris" [1]. Idris [2] is a Haskell-like language, but unlike Haskell it's strict and from the beginning was designed around a depe
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by rotifer 5y ago
> Also, the article mentions you need nitrile gloves to protect yourself from it. I don't see that. With respect to an OSHA bulletin, the article says: The bulletin also urged that, aside from wearing a face shield, anyone work
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by rotifer 5y ago
People might be interested in gitless [0], which purports to be "a Git-compatible version control system, that is easy to learn and use". It appears to be built on top of git, using a simplified conceptual model. I read about it
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by rotifer 5y ago
I don't know anything about Wolfram Language, but Stephen Diehl's "Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 2 (Term Rewriting)" [0] says it's based on a term rewriting system. The blog post describes term rewriting systems us
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by rotifer 5y ago
I don't know how common it is, but people do drive like this. From a 2012 news article [1] about Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto at the time: Reporter: "Sir, there's a picture that went out on Twitter this morning of yo
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by rotifer 5y ago
This story is also told in the "The Vaccine Whisperer: How a Quebec program is convincing vaccine hesitant parents to immunize their newborns, and what it could mean for COVID-19 vaccines" episode [1] of the "White Coat Black
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by rotifer 5y ago
However, for anyone who does happen to be interested in the history of emoji, Keith Houston's Shady Characters blog has a ten(!) part series [0] on them. [0] https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/08/emoji-part-
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by rotifer 6y ago
Jeffrey Friedl has recently updated his blog post [1] (mentioned in the "great top comment"), referencing the various HN discussions over the years. It's all oddly satisfying, in a way... [1] http://regex.info&#x2F
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by rotifer 6y ago
The phrase "anything but X" means the opposite of X (e.g. see [1]). So, "anything but pleasant" means "unpleasant". I think the commenter just used it incorrectly. [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.
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by rotifer 6y ago
Move everything you'd like to delete into DeadCodeModule and make it all private, or would that be considered unsporting?
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by rotifer 6y ago
Permutations can be written as the "product" of "cycles", as described here [1]. If you choose an element belonging to a given cycle, then generate new elements by repeatedly applying the permutation, all the elements yo
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by rotifer 6y ago
"The Future Begins Tomorrow", motto of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems [1], from the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/spookytreasures/71627355
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by rotifer 6y ago
One time at university I was up late working on a math assignment, but couldn't figure out one of the problems. I fell asleep and had a dream in which I came up with the solution. I woke up briefly, wrote down the answer, then fell a
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by rotifer 6y ago
While playing around with a problem at work involving Markov chains and graph connectivity, I found it useful to know that I could write (in Java) a generic method that performed "exponentiation by squaring" on semigroups. So, in
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by rotifer 6y ago
The site kaggle.com runs machine learning competitions, one of which is "Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster" [0]. I haven't looked into the site myself; I learned about it from David Spiegelhalter's book "The A
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by rotifer 6y ago
I misremembered what he said in the preface. I thought he had said that he was using Java less often, but what he actually wrote was, "I still like Java, though my ardor has cooled a bit as the platform has grown."
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by rotifer 6y ago
Here are some books that have stood out for me. They cover some of the technologies that I either have to work with, or am personally interested in. Effective Java by Joshua Bloch Practical, actionable guidelines. The first edition was
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by rotifer 7y ago
Over the years I've collected various links on topics related to Haskell performance. I'll spare you the whole list, but here are a few that may be of some use. Haskell Performance Patters - Johan Tibell (2012) http://