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This is the take on this entire thread that I resonate with the most. As a systems person, I do not know how to share with a details person how the combination of some magically co…

Maybe because Brendan Eich was tasked with "doing Scheme in the browser" before it pivoted to JavaScript.

I had forgotten about this. The last I saw this was 20+ years ago!

So many words to say: Scheme. :)

Landing the plane.

I maintain a list of phrases I beg it not to use that it frequently ignores: - smoking gun - blast radius - landed - spine - earned its keep - grammar - spike - cutover - bake - sp…

I might need to do a spike as this is a core part of the spine. I will verify it and let you know when it's landed.

I love this!

Does the OP honestly believe that the cost of maintaining a good blog is the €4/month hosting cost?!

I used to do this when I was in grad school as a matter of principle. F the man.

Wow, a post about Angular published on Medium!

Please share some of your tools.

Where are my RCS people at?

This is a general pattern in CAS. For a more basic case, it’s not obvious sqrt(square(x)) will simplify to x without any further assumptions on x.

Shock, gasp.

It has been so much fun. :)

I do understand this sentiment. But I wish these experts would see that they too are novices in literally every other field that they are not explicitly trained or experienced in. …

I feel this so, so much. It is a very exciting time. I have had a very specific goal in mind and I could work out large parts on my own. But there is a lot that I didn't have any b…

Hahaa

Hi! I'm a computational scientist by training, and I've spent an unreasonable number of years wrangling gnuplot and matplotlib to make figures look right for papers and presentatio…