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It can answer: "I'm a language model and don't have the capacity to help with that" if the question is not detailed enough. But supplied with more context, it can be very helpful.

I'm using gnuplot for plotting too (the actual gnuplot application not a library that uses gnuplot as its backend). And I usually keep computation and plotting separate. Computatio…

This is like an artificially created mass extinction event (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event ). Without it the ecosystem could maintain itself for very long time…

jq feels like a much more robust tool than yq. I understand that the task of processing YAML is much harder than JSON, but: - yq changed its syntax between version 3 and 4 to be mo…

A collection (e.g. an array or a hash map) that stores things. Maybe more than one collection like that, different for each type of entity: monsters, items, etc. (Separate code pat…

I think, Wiki fundraising message should be more informational, not an emotional cry for help and money. I myself don't want to be manipulated, give me the numbers and what you wan…

I think, Wikimedia's fundraising message should include the amount of money they have, the expenses they expect for the coming years (with a basic breakdown of how it is going to b…

Just to add to this, I wrote additional lecture notes for the class on OCaml I taught, which was largely based on this book. http://a-nikolaev.github.io/fp/ - if anyone is interest…

No parentheses can be nice for cleaner pattern matching, e.g. something like this: match a, b with | 1, 2 -> x | _ -> y

pretty much

Yeah. Maybe enclosing a particular type of hole could give more points or something like that. Also, one could put wooden pegs with numbers or other tokens in the holes to specify …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosian_game

Dreaming is fine, but Musk has a track record of not delivering on his over-optimistic promises. And a dream is not enough to overpower gravity and the laws of thermodynamics. Ther…

Here's a video that's making a basically the same argument (although with a more sarcastic tone) that electric batteries don't have a sufficiently high energy density to power an e…

Python is a kind of a new Fortran for this generation of scientists. (And Python makes things even easier, ofc, compared to Fortran.)

As a person who lived in that dorm at the time, I don't think that the photo evidence is dangerous or incriminating for the author now. Maybe it could be ..somewhat.. incriminating…

A pedantic comment. I think it should be saying "5000 GitHub stars" instead of "5000 Git stars". Similarly, "GitHub Link" instead of "Git Link". Git ≠ GitHub.

Okay, yeah, I agree that the more important part in procedural generation is to be able to produce a large population of interesting artifacts. The means to get there can involve m…

Demos are fine without randomness, but what we see here is an algorithm or a numerical method to make a mesh.

Very nice visuals, but "procedural generation" does not seem to be the right term for this code. Maybe it should be called an "algorithmic technique" instead, or something like tha…

> “The ban has drawn the tea industry into complete disarray… If we go completely organic, we will lose 50 per cent of the crop, (but) we are not going to get 50 per cent higher pr…

Emojis are normally used inlined in text. So, I think, they should demo theirs the same size as they would be when inlined in text. Otherwise hard to tell tell the emoji quality. I…

Probably b/c Python abuses the same keywords way too much. (But that shouldn't be such a surprise already to oppose this particular case.)