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I've done research involving sampling from all extant notebooks on GitHub and manually analyzing them, and have been a heavy user of them in non-CS research contexts for a long tim…

San Diego is near the Palomar Observatory and Mount Laguna observatory (see map [1]). The observatory as well as environmental concerns of bright lighting at night messing with wil…

Small quibble: converting a measure to a z-score requires an assumption of normality and that you're considering a population. For a sample the equivalent is the t-statistic, which…

If I'm in the mood for being a little glib... where do you think that Linux distribution that SteamOS is based on got its user-space (or more seriously, its drivers?) Also: the Ste…

What do you think is running on your favorite game consoles (that aren't Xbox)? I'll give you a hint, it isn't Linux. Nintendo is using a custom OS but with a huge chunk of user sp…

Happy new year to all! Cheers!

I am reminded of Magnetix, though they were ball and stick based, and I don't believe included "solid" polygons. Maybe some kits beyond the ones I saw did.

Addendum: the positions of the atoms shown in that video and other figures are NOT smoothed or snapped to a grid in any way. They are directly drawn from the experimental results! …

There are applications of the Johnson solids to characterizing patterns that occur in nature at the nanoscale. You wouldn't be able to see them with the naked eye, but they are ver…

Two dozen programming languages shipped in or not, almost no languages support this. It is something that you start appreciating a lot more once you have used it significantly. It …

It separates "names as public-facing API design decisions" from "names as developer conveniences for expressing intent and clarifying their code". These are often very at odds. And…

American coffee shops have never been cafes. They're glorified caffeine dispensaries. Buy your drink, get out, drink it somewhere else. In Europe no one bats an eye at you spending…

Good news: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/5e8c928f1a37349a...

Sheer random chance. I had this same question while working on structural resolution of a certain RNA polymerase. I asked "okay so if this ratcheting mechanism allows the protein t…

I don't find the first point surprising. (Our) pi is the one tied to the only metric where the unit circle is perfectly continuous, differentiable, etc. The 2-norm is very special …

> In my book a general code review is simple sanity check by a second pair of eyes, which can result in suggestions to use different API or use an API slightly differently. This is…

If you start enums at 1, then the first item in the enum isn't coercible to false, all items coerce to true.

The fundamental idea of testing units and then integrations between units is unassailable and unkillable (today). We should have serious discussions about HOW we test units, and wh…

> this isn’t actually correct terminology This entire post could have been reduced to this (reasonably correct I think) claim. > if we recognize that what LLMs are really doing is …

I mean taking the title at face value and factoring in the odds... Practically speaking _you_ can do absolutely nothing with them. If you can then you work in a far more interestin…

People who are actually correct on the basis of significant experience don't tend to feel it necessary to remind others at every possible occasion (unless not doing so would lead t…

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

AoVA lacking its own total ordering on indices might be a problem for some use cases, but not for the one that is suggested here: AST nodes. In these cases, the arrays can be just …

Also to give a brief overview: Dynapad was/is a scheme based wrapper/GUI layer/scripting interface for building applications on top of the Pad++ primitives. Sadly the version of sc…