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"divide instead of multiply" is _precisely_ the thing that units help with. If you keep track of them correctly, and you know the units of the result you want, then it's impossible…

I'd estimate that there's an easy order-of-magnitude improvement (~10x) just from implementing a simple error-correction mechanism -- a Reed-Solomon code ought to be good enough th…

One more thing: the choice of Wolfram Mathematica as an implementation language was a deliberate decision on my part. Not for any technical reason -- YouTubeDrive doesn't use any o…

Hey everybody! I'm David, the creator of YouTubeDrive, and I never expected to see this old project pop up on HN. YouTubeDrive was created when I was a freshman in college with que…

Yep! I'm the creator of YouTubeDrive, and there's absolutely nothing in the code that depends on the symbolic manipulation capabilities of Wolfram Mathematica -- you could easily p…