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About jmagland
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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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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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