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carlkcarlk

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    Interesting! I hadn't heard of DH parameters before. I worked this out from first principles starting from turtle graphics and ended up with four primitive operations: yaw, pitch, …

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    I’ve been enjoying Embassy most at the application pattern layer: long-lived device tasks that hide timing and coordination behind a small, typed async API. For example: loop { let…

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    I used multiple AI agents (and Lean) to formally validate a Rust algorithm. Along the way the AI tried to hide missing proofs. I describe the process and surprises.

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    This talk explains some recent Busy Beaver and Turing machine results using simple programs and shows how to visualize them efficiently. It’s aimed at programmers interested in lon…

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    Here is the [final function in Python]( https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-optimize-your-python-p... ): (Regular Python `int` is arbitrary precision, but immutable, so I use `gm…

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    Yes, the article figures that with a limit of 64GB of memory, with simple nested loops, you could only loop about 10^(165 billion) steps. To get 10^^15 steps, the article assumes "…

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    Python version: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-optimize-your-python-p...

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    In school we learn to "solve" y = x² and get x = ±√y. But they never teach that (or why) you can't solve y = x −c sin(x) and get a nice equation. That's always bugged me. Instead o…

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