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by loganmhb 4mo ago
I’m an array language novice but my favorite one so far is BQN. Much better documented than K derivatives. Not sure you could characterize any array language as having a “healthy userbase” though.
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by loganmhb 5mo ago
There’s a KSP mod called Principia which does some kind of n-body simulation in which Lagrange points do exist iirc.
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by loganmhb 5mo ago
For any other array language novices, I've experimented with K and J but had the best experience so far with BQN. It is a bit on the Lispy side like K but much better documented, and I thought the APL-esque symbolic alphabet was mnemon
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by loganmhb 1y ago
Especially concerning in light of that METR study in which developers overestimated the impact of AI on their own productivity (even if it doesn't turn out to be negative) https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-202
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by loganmhb 1y ago
I once saw an explanation which I can no longer find that what's really happening here is also partly "man" and "woman" are very similar vectors which nearly cancel each other out, and "king" is excluded f
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by loganmhb 1y ago
I respect the forecasting abilities of the people involved, but I have seen that report described as "astonishingly accurate" a few times and I'm not sure that's true. The narrative format lends itself somewhat to genero
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by loganmhb 2y ago
Plenty of people are ragging (justifiably) on Clean Code, but I really admire by contrast Ousterhout's commitment to balanced principles and in particular learning from non-trivial examples. Philosophy of Software Design is a great and
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by loganmhb 2y ago
Martin Kleppmann's book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a great starting point if you're not familiar with it.
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by loganmhb 4y ago
The roads might actually cost more than that: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/30/my-city-has-ma...
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by loganmhb 4y ago
I wonder how much of this is an illusion of precision that comes from pattern matching on content from filler sites like https://www.free-hosting.biz/division/16-divided-7.html (I do not recommend clicking the link, bu
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by loganmhb 5y ago
The question is not whether perceptions are true -- that's irrelevant. Undoubtedly perceptions present a skewed and unreliable view onto reality. It's whether they exist at all. You can't trick someone who isn't looking.
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by loganmhb 6y ago
I have heard excellent things about Crossfire but alas have not had the chance to play it -- hopefully one of these days!
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by loganmhb 6y ago
I have this feeling sometimes too, but I think there is an important aspect of complex board games, in particular strategy games that is missing from computer games. When you play a board game, you are forced to understand the rules (becaus
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Digging Up Troy(laphamsquarterly.org)
6 points by loganmhb 9y ago|0 comments
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by loganmhb 10y ago
When reading about Elasticsearch I was fascinated to learn that the JVM can often use 32-bit object pointers to address about 32GB of RAM when running in 64-bit mode: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/C
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A Memory Allocator(bckly.com)
1 points by loganmhb 10y ago|0 comments
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by loganmhb 10y ago
My impression was that the implications of sexism were directed at Levy, for glorifying the hackers who made Hamilton's work more difficult while trivializing her work to some degree, not so much at the hackers themselves, who indeed j
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by loganmhb 10y ago
Just because Facebook is making these decisions based on profitability doesn't remove them from the moral sphere, though. If the side effects of the decisions Facebook makes are substantial (which seems common to me with ad-based busin
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by loganmhb 10y ago
I second the recommendation of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. That book did more than any other to help me both write more clearly and explain to others how to do so (was a writing tutor in college). Many writing books give concrete a
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by loganmhb 10y ago
One of the nice things about the Clojure standard library is that most everyday functions actually do fit the first/last category (by design). Functions operating on sequences (map, filter, reduce, etc) take the sequence as the last ar
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by loganmhb 10y ago
> One would think curing cancer ought to be amongst humanity's greatest concerted challenges. One of the reasons "curing cancer" is so difficult is that cancer itself is not really one disease but many, with diverse causes
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by loganmhb 10y ago
That does not match my understanding of first class functions, nor Wikipedia's.[1] Python's inner defs are not anonymous functions (which is what people usually mean by lambdas) but they are definitely first class - they can be re
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by loganmhb 10y ago
If you like Javascript and you want to try a language with a good static type system, you might like Elm ( http://elm-lang.org/ ). As a bonus, it has fantastic documentation and examples of small in-browser projets -- a clock
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by loganmhb 11y ago
I think it's interesting how much people's aesthetic preferences differ on lisp syntax. Personally, I think the parentheses are visually appealing, but it's probably an acquired taste. Even more than that, I actually now find
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by loganmhb 11y ago
Sometimes there are misunderstandings of economics involved, but just as often that kind of resistance stems from factors that "basic economics" glosses over or abstracts away. There's a lot of economic friction involved in s
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by loganmhb 11y ago
There's a place in Chicago that teaches longsword classes based on the reconstructed fencing school of Fiore dei Liberi, who wrote this book.
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by loganmhb 11y ago
Along these lines, for me one of the things that makes Clojure stand out is the careful thought that went into state, time and identity in the design of the language. It removes mutability as a default without forcing you to be purely funct
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by loganmhb 11y ago
Emacs has plenty of power here. My preferred Clojure workflow actually involves evaluating Clojure code in a buffer rather than directly at the REPL (so you don't have to do any copy/pasting to edit the code and eval it again). It
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by loganmhb 11y ago
Your objection to the segue would make more sense if those "imaginary points" didn't have the potential to e.g. purchase one of a limited number of tickets off the planet (or any number of other life-changing/saving thin
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by loganmhb 12y ago
Excellent reply -- a small but important (and elegant, I think) proviso is that in the king-minting-coins scenario, it's not actually necessary to require that citizens exchange goods for the coins; requiring them to pay taxes in the c

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