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jmagland

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About jmagland

I develop computational tools and open-source software for scientific research, with a focus on data visualization, cloud-based platforms, and making complex datasets more accessible to researchers.

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    Show HN: Matlab syntax in Jupyter, client-side

    jupyterlite-numbl-kernel is a JupyterLite kernel for numbl ( https://numbl.org ). It demonstrates running MATLAB syntax in Jupyter, client-side in the browser (no MATLAB or Octave …

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    Show HN: Figpack science viz – Python script → Shareable HTML Bundle in cloud

    Sharing interactive scientific visualizations is hard. I don’t want my colleagues to have to install specialized software. I just want to email them a link which they can click on …

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    Show HN: Too many browser tabs! I solved it with a simple electron app

    There are a few sites I visit very frequently and I find myself always opening a new tab. I'm used to an IDE where if you click on a file on the left it takes you to a new editor, …

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    I like the idea of having a proxy git server between you and the remote, I've never seen that before. Are there other use cases you imagine for such a setup besides intercepting an…

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    I've found that Asymmetric Numeral Systems (you mentioned it briefly) is the optimal practical method for pure entropy encoding. I just posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

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    Comment #47806144

    Oh, you may also be interested in this fun ANS Visualizer https://visposts.github.io/ans-visualizer/

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    Show HN: simple_ans – Asymmetric Numeral Systems Compression in Python/C++

    The Asymmetric Numeral Systems (ANS) algorithm (Duda et al, 2015) is perhaps the most practical way of getting near optimal compression ratios for independent and identically distr…

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    Yes the FBG-101 works after a few seconds. However in the original link it still doesn't work... I tried chrome and firefox. But here's a clue, when I pluck the guitar string sever…

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    Seems to work. What do you imagine is the main use case?

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    Oh tricky. Thanks!

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    The air particle visualization is really cool! However, I don't hear anything. I'm on chrome browser in linux. It wasn't clear how to get that to work. Thx

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    Fun idea. Before I try it, how far should I expect to go before reaching my destination?

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    Nice! Is this meant to promote brain health, or to just be relaxing? Q. Is it possible to resize the shapes? That wasn't clear to me from the interface, and I had a hard time compl…

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