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It's also frustrating for only looking at the last 22,000 years or so. Considering how good Randal has been at presenting much larger scales (from quarks to galaxies, the big bang …

I don't mean this the wrong way, but since you know one instruction is sufficient, the next smallest number is two. Maybe by RISC, you meant a small orthogonal set? Load/Store/ALU …

x86's version of a single "instruction" is frequently a large class of opcodes. It's kind of crazy considering the assembler chooses one of the following numbers for "mov" based on…

A few years back, I re-wired the electrics in my guitar using a semi-complicated setup of a 6 way switch for pickups in-phase or out, and parallel or series, tone and volume pots, …

Here's one you can use with (pretty much) any version of C++: __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2))) static inline std::string format(const char* fmt, ...) { va_list args; va_star…

> It was about this time that I realized college might not be the thing for me. Frequently, there are higher caliber instructors in colleges than high schools. If your goal is to l…

> they rarely encounter children these days who can have a conversation. I think public schools do a pretty good job teaching kids to not speak openly with adults.

That's interesting. I didn't read the paper closely, but skipping to the pictures, it looks like ReLU, but smoothed out so the derivative is continuous. Intuitively, that seems use…

> Someone should make one language that transpiles down to Javascript AND Python AND Ruby AND Erlang even! Well, not every language, but Haxe has you pretty well covered: https://h…

Your first line of main is adding -0.0 and -0.0, which is not what I think you intended to show.

> quite slow due to GIL I don't want to defend the GIL, but that's not the reason CPython is slow. PyPy can be 100s of times faster, and it has a GIL too.

I'm not the GP, but here's my take on it. First some good: Python is amazing for how approachable it is. I've tried to teach (non-programmer, but smart) people I know other simpler…

I didn't think it worked that way. After that, can I be the Silent/Greatest Generation? Maybe the word "Boomer" will just get redefined to mean "old people with more money than me"…

> Some boomer should have some “OK SLACKER” t-shirts As part of Gen-X, I feel like that's appropriating from my culture. I was proudly on the "slackers" mailing list as an adult in…

Across the world, what percentage is Portland cement vs the other CO2 absorbing kind? I googled around, but couldn't find the answer.

Thank you for telling me about this - I didn't know they did that... My first thought as I started reading the PEP was, "Why did they bother adding the 'bytes' type if 'str' is jus…

Yes, that's very much what the video goes into. For any rational approximation of 2 pi, say 22/7, you won't get lines at multiples of 2 or multiples of 11.

The first time I saw these, I thought it hinted at some deep insight into the nature of primes. However, after watching the following video, I think it just says something about mo…

> Your proposal only works well for US ASCII users. No, and I explicitly mentioned UTF-8. My suggestion is that str holds arbitrary immutable binary data and that you have a method…

> There were some intractably difficult, "rip-the-band-aid-off" types of changes that had to happen at some point. I suspect you're referring to Unicode here. In that case, I think…

Thank you for your reply, it does actually change how I see the prior art thing played out. > Often, folks think that they've found prior art if they find one thing in one document…

Here is one in Python. Uncomment the if statement if you want it to terminate. def sin(x): def recur(x, n, s, p, f): #if n > 9: return s; return recur(x, n + 2, s + p/f, -p*x*x, f*…

Yes, exactly.

The plaintiffs certainly had a larger legal team. We brought our patent attorney and a trial lawyer on our own dime, and we managed to get some time from the chief patent counsel f…