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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Nowadays in languages like C/C++/Go/etc we typically enforce the use of an autoformatter to convert source code to a canonical style. It's also great for removing all discussion of such formatting from code reviews.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Wow, thanks for this!
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
It's not for everyone. I cut my teeth on SICP before going into physics, so I was perhaps the exact target audience. I also see Scheme as an improvement over its successor languages.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I can understand a love of Perl by folks who love a good puzzle, or who are interested in "code golf" (trying to get something done in the fewest number of characters). But those are not great traits for a general-purpose programm
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I would love to explore statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, and/or general relativity through a similar lens. But I am also quite interested in learning more about the "under the hood" workings and software craftsman
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
That is along the lines of the motivation for my question. Automatic differentiation is such a natural fit with Haskell...
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
The use of whitespace in Python was controversial 20+ years ago. These days it seems like no big deal. The only annoyance is when copy-and-pasting code from one place to another, the indentation can get screwed up, which is a small annoyanc
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Does this implement symbolic algebra/calculus, or is it entirely numerical?
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I had the opposite reaction. I already know physics, but I want to learn Haskell.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Official version: https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b... I'd really like to see a "spiritual successor" to Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics--somethin
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
When I first encountered Python, it was as an alternative to Perl. Given the choice between Perl and Python, I think it's clear why the latter won out.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
What does "mole" mean in this context?
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
What makes the Y chromosome more difficult?
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
The code to build mitochondria is not.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
What is R7RS?
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Previously: "Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) (hypotheses.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13535868
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I attended an undergraduate seminar by Charles Townes sometime around 1999-2000 at UC Berkeley, on laser interferometry, and it was the first time I heard about LIGO. It set a little seed in my mind, so that when my future PhD advisor walke
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Yes, it seems to be just a simple anecdote. I think the author's father is this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_M._Watson
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
"How to Design Programs" ( https://htdp.org/ )
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
As if to prove your point, those video lectures are from 1986 . I took the course in 1999. And yes the material is just as relevant today.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
This is an unnecessarily cynical point of view. There has been 1 pulsar-timing experiment looking for gravitational waves and it produced this positive, 1-in-1000 result. Seems extremely promising.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Not enough to be useful. In the case of these extremely low-frequency waves, also not enough to be measurable.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Portugal recently ended its equivalent of this program, due to fraud.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Is Dan Ariely implicated in any of this? My understanding was that he was cleared.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Yeah, this isn't true. A teaspoon is a standard unit of measurement in US cooking.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
In Germany I encountered the "metric pound" - you can order a Pfund (500g) of beef at the butcher for example.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Weather events and earthquakes - no. Cosmic rays - Astrophysical events that generate gravitational waves can also generate electromagnetic and particle emissions. If a black hole crashes into a neutron star, all kinds of stuff is going to
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I wanted to put in a plug for my employer's open-sourced C++ units framework, called Au: https://github.com/aurora-opensource/au The library incorporates dimensional units into the C++ type system with an emphasis
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
> when people say "orders of magnitude" do they always mean base 10? Yes, and that has always bothered me just a little bit, given that there is nothing intrinsically special about base 10 and yet the phrase seems to suggest so

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