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   by nyankosensei 2mo ago

   Thanks for sharing. Very interesting, especially since it’s based on Koka, which I’ve been experimenting with and still trying to wrap my head around. It also reminds me a lot of Shen ( https://shenlanguage.org/ ). I’ll defin
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   by nyankosensei 2mo ago

   There are many feasibility and safety issues associated with the Reflect Orbital plan. It doesn’t make as much sense as you might think. For instance, the satellites can only illuminate areas a relatively short time after local sunset. The
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   by nyankosensei 3mo ago

   See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433410 for context.
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   by nyankosensei 4mo ago

   The OP includes a link to an English excerpt written by the author of the "Swing, divide and conquer the factorial" manuscript: http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/SwingIntro.pdf
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   by nyankosensei 5mo ago

   I noticed from the logo that 2026 is evidently the 75th anniversary of the Lincoln Laboratory.
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   by nyankosensei 7mo ago

   I second this recommendation. For those interested, this is “An interactive application for maths and graphics based on the Lua programming language and the GNU Scientific Library.” for both Windows and Linux. I installed it and keep a shor
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   by nyankosensei 7mo ago

   I appreciate your offer, but there’s no need. I subsequently found a copy here: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...
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   by nyankosensei 7mo ago

   Maybe I’m missing something, but that webpage only seems to provide a PDF containing the beginning of the book (up through the Preface). Perhaps you need a ACM Digital Library Premium subscription to access the entire book?
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   by nyankosensei 9mo ago

   It’s great that Libbrecht put a copy of his 500+ page ‘Snow Crystals’ book on arXiv [0] before an updated version was published by Princeton University Press [1]. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06389 [1] https:/&
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    by nyankosensei 2y ago

    I completely agree that this is a great resource. BTW, the Springer site book link is https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-14764-7 . I’m thankful that the author has made the book and code freely availa
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    by nyankosensei 2y ago

    You can still access Usenet posts: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Web-to-news_gateways
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    by nyankosensei 2y ago

    I don’t know what the best book would be, but I found this extract from Andy Farnell’s book “Designing Sound” to be a very helpful introduction to Pure Data: http://aspress.co.uk/ds/pdf/pd_intro.pdf Another useful
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    by nyankosensei 2y ago

    Another introduction from an historical point of view is “Galois Theory for Beginners: A Historical Perspective” by Jörg Bewersdorff https://bookstore.ams.org/view?ProductCode=STML/95
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    You can click the tiny printer icon above the title to display the entire article as a single page.
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    She has also developed KamilaLisp with many APL-derived features: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/kamilalisp
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    The developers have written a terrific open source book that walks the reader through creating a Spacewar! game in Cuis Smalltalk (just updated yesterday): https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/TheCuisBook
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    Here’s a link to the referenced article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41693-w
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    The Society for Amateur Radio Astronomy lists some other interesting projects for beginners: https://radio-astronomy.org/getting-started
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    This is the NPR full site with better photos showing how well-preserved the wreck is: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197480909/shipwreck-trinidad...
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    I found the Guided Tour very helpful for getting started with Factor: https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-tour.html It's also available for browsing in the Factor browser with code that can be clicked to e
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    I just learned that several mathematical notations exist for Braille: https://chezdom.net/mathematicalbraillecodes/
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    As far as I can tell, this technique relies on post-processing of data from the separated detectors, so it isn’t a realtime system.
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    NOTE: The linked article does not include a correction from the original press release. The “40F” cooling ability should be only “about 7F”. https://www.acs.org/pressroom/newsreleases/2023/march/colorf...
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    by nyankosensei 3y ago

    Chargaff’s interesting autobiography is available from the publisher as a free ebook: https://books.rupress.org/catalog/book/heraclitean-fire
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    by nyankosensei 4y ago

    The Cuis developers are working on a great introductory book that I’m working through: https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/
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    by nyankosensei 4y ago

    The main webpage provides more info about the Unicon language: http://www.unicon.org/
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    by nyankosensei 4y ago

    https://www.levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf
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    by nyankosensei 5y ago

    I also recommend ‘The Green Flame’ by Andrew Dequasie. It’s the fascinating personal story of a chemist embarking on a new career and ending up working with borane fuels.
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    by nyankosensei 6y ago

    A project to create a Creative Commons version of Dr. Noble’s book was started, but doesn’t seem very active lately [0]. The lead even received permission from Dr. Noble’s widow [1]. [0] https://github.com/Josefg/Scient
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    by nyankosensei 6y ago

    https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/02/28/language-rankings-1-2...