kpgiskpg

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by kpgiskpg 1y ago
I think a recent update (March 3rd, version 2.5.3) to SBCL added this sorta breakpoint debugging functionality. Hopefully we'll see it integrated with SLIME soon. > enhancement: breakpoint debugger commands have been added. Included
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by kpgiskpg 5y ago
Oh wait, Hackernews seems to have removed one of the astericks symbols. It should be Python's exponentiation operator (2 astericks symbols), ya. (edit: fixed now). That's cool too! How do you define the variables?
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by kpgiskpg 5y ago
That's a question of interface design. You can also create ugly, ambiguous interfaces with functions (10 arguments, it mutates some of them, etc), or any other language feature. If a library designer uses operator overloading well, the
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by kpgiskpg 5y ago
(Author here). Here's a not-so-mathy application that I had recently. I was implementing a units system in Python. Operator overloading allowed me to define joules like so: `J = KG * M**-1 * S**-2`. Then I could define grays (a radiati
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
My favourite illustration of this is in The Wire. The city wants to crack down on crime and increases the target number of arrests. The police chief sends out the word and police officers begin making a bunch of spurious arrests. Do you bla
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
This looks awesome! I wonder why I haven't heard about it before.
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
The previous user said that you can do "literally anything" in VSCode that you can do in Emacs, I think these examples were chosen to prove that statement wrong. It doesn't mean that Emacs is better for everyone.
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
I didn't realise that popes getting poisoned was a common occurrence at any time in history.
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
I actually started working on a CLI calculator a few days ago that sounds exactly like what you're looking for: https://github.com/Kevinpgalligan/ka So far it just has variables and basic arithmetic. Other feature
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Obese websites and planet-sized metronomes(kevingal.com)
2 points by kpgiskpg 6y ago|0 comments
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I wouldn't put matplotlib graphs in a paper without tweaking the style, and it gets frustrating when you have to do this for every single plotting script you write. And the defaults certai
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
Getting the job done is the main point, of course, but I think a visualisation library should also handle common cases gracefully and have defaults that don't make me want to gouge my eyes out. Every time I use matplotlib, I have to lo
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
I've always hated matplotlib, even though it gets the job done. The graphs are ugly by default, and the API would be unusable if it weren't for StackOverflow. Maybe I just need to sit down and learn it really well. Anyway, this se
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
Calculus Made Easy has a heap of exercises at the end of each chapter, it's not bad in that respect.
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
Funnily enough, I'm working through this book right now. The writing amuses me to no end, from the anachronism of calling it "the calculus" to the chain rule being referred to as a "dodge". It goes well with 3blue1b
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by kpgiskpg 6y ago
That's fun, thanks!
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Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life(kevingal.com)
1 points by kpgiskpg 7y ago|0 comments
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by kpgiskpg 7y ago
Cool! I love projects involving colour, because they always have nice visualisations. Would you mind explaining your project in more detail? I'm intrigued by your site! Not sure if it's supposed to be interactive because I'm
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Random RGB values that average to N; or, Pointlessness and Probability(kevingal.com)
3 points by kpgiskpg 7y ago|3 comments