It's like Frutiger Aero come to life
if you click through to the linked Vannevar Bush article and scroll down there are a bunch of vintage ads around the prose that are kind of interesting. And some of the predictions have been well overtaken by events!
The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.
The 18th place entry (A cryptocrystalline micrometeorite resting on a #80 testing sieve) is like a still from the original Andromeda Strain movie
It is better stated that: since there are "so many more" irrational numbers than rational ones, if you were to pick a real number "at random," the probability that it would be rational is zero. The "many more" and…
Have a look at Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org
When I was in high school my desk had a graffiti carved in it of the three most important numbers: 69, 2112, and 714. 2112 was the Rush album (which I liked), and I had to ask a friend about 714: he explained that it…
My own thought (I know there is a great deal of room for disagreement) is that the J6 crowd saw no consequences for the attempts to obstruct the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and thought the rules had changed. One of…
> Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and…
I have done the translation from Scheme to Clojure which raises the possibility that some of the typing could be done gradually with spec; I haven't worked with typed scheme. There's a lot of code in the simplifier…
I have been interested in doing this for a long time, and have thought about doing it in Haskell. It would be a lot of work, and some of the type decisions that would be needed would probably complicate the UX of the…
Thank you, I will do this.
(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything down on my 32Gb trashcan pro. I thought it…
I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictionary and a conjugation chart. I started…
And in just such a way as to prevent your insurance company from paying a claim!
So you get one free murder? No, the deterrent had to be there beforehand, so that our hypothetical killer who is certain she only wants to kill one person will be exposed to that deterrence. Even if she is not thereby…
I'm so glad it was helpful. We have some Jupyter notebooks, e.g. https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/j... One on the Foucault pendulum sounds like it would make a nice addition. Perhaps it could…
I maintain a port to Clojure https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils I haven't done much with it recently but have plans in the back of my mind for when I have more free time.
/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger
There is good news and bad news. The ODE integrators (etc.) in Apache Commons Math are great and work with unboxed types. In SICM, however, you'll be dealing with clojure functions generated by the system to map states…
You are correct.
zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the system.
It's what I learned with. I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't tried any others. It gets you started, and seems best for a reader who knows a few other languages.
It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.
The Scheme code that inspired this can work symbolically as well as numerically, since it contains a computer algebra system at its core.
It's like Frutiger Aero come to life
if you click through to the linked Vannevar Bush article and scroll down there are a bunch of vintage ads around the prose that are kind of interesting. And some of the predictions have been well overtaken by events!
The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.
The 18th place entry (A cryptocrystalline micrometeorite resting on a #80 testing sieve) is like a still from the original Andromeda Strain movie
It is better stated that: since there are "so many more" irrational numbers than rational ones, if you were to pick a real number "at random," the probability that it would be rational is zero. The "many more" and…
Have a look at Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org
When I was in high school my desk had a graffiti carved in it of the three most important numbers: 69, 2112, and 714. 2112 was the Rush album (which I liked), and I had to ask a friend about 714: he explained that it…
My own thought (I know there is a great deal of room for disagreement) is that the J6 crowd saw no consequences for the attempts to obstruct the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and thought the rules had changed. One of…
> Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and…
I have done the translation from Scheme to Clojure which raises the possibility that some of the typing could be done gradually with spec; I haven't worked with typed scheme. There's a lot of code in the simplifier…
I have been interested in doing this for a long time, and have thought about doing it in Haskell. It would be a lot of work, and some of the type decisions that would be needed would probably complicate the UX of the…
Thank you, I will do this.
(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything down on my 32Gb trashcan pro. I thought it…
I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictionary and a conjugation chart. I started…
And in just such a way as to prevent your insurance company from paying a claim!
So you get one free murder? No, the deterrent had to be there beforehand, so that our hypothetical killer who is certain she only wants to kill one person will be exposed to that deterrence. Even if she is not thereby…
I'm so glad it was helpful. We have some Jupyter notebooks, e.g. https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/j... One on the Foucault pendulum sounds like it would make a nice addition. Perhaps it could…
I maintain a port to Clojure https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils I haven't done much with it recently but have plans in the back of my mind for when I have more free time.
/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger
There is good news and bad news. The ODE integrators (etc.) in Apache Commons Math are great and work with unboxed types. In SICM, however, you'll be dealing with clojure functions generated by the system to map states…
You are correct.
zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the system.
It's what I learned with. I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't tried any others. It gets you started, and seems best for a reader who knows a few other languages.
It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.
The Scheme code that inspired this can work symbolically as well as numerically, since it contains a computer algebra system at its core.