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Nitpick of the nitpick... Temperature is actually an intensive quantity, i.e. combining two subsystems with the same temperature yields a bigger system with the same temperature, n…

The anthropologist Philippe Descola with his main work Beyond Nature and Culture has been trying to classify the nature/culture relations by studying comparatively several societie…

The section on comp time is written in a way which makes you think that zig invented the concept. It slightly irritated the lisper in me... Great article apart from that.

Coming from a quantum physics point of view, it is very strange to see the term "topological fields" in this context ! Do you have recommended references about these grammatical co…

There is an expanding field of study looking at machine learning with statistical physics tools. While there is still a lot of work to do in this area, it yields interesting insigh…

I feel like it would have been nicer to have a perfect match with orgmode syntax (e.g. they use square brackets instead of chevrons for time stamps). It would make migration easier…

I would recommend this: https://m.youtube.com/user/CBaggers/featured This is a real project, this guy wrote a compiler, to convert common lisp to GLSL (I'm not talking about a simp…

Does it come from somewhere or you just made that up ? I have a really strong feeling of déjà vu but cannot figure out from where.

It probably happened to everyone that when looking for lyrics of a somewhat obscure song, Google search results are clogged up by the usual popular lyrics websites, despite none of…

Could you explain a bit more what do you mean by "cyberphysical artsystem" ? I have no clue what this is, but the name sounds cool

https://jfelisaz.eu Nothing fancy, just a static page with CV. But writing a crude org mode -> HTML generator in AWK was fun

I am too young to have played Morrowind at its release date, so I am not biased by nostalgia. Honestly, with a couple graphics enhancing mods, it can still look beautiful today. Of…

Genuine question, what would be the idiomatic way of doing an impure operation multiple times in J/APL ? (e.g. if writing an interpreter loop) I was wondering if it's doable withou…

I'd advice reading the famous article "More is different" by P. W. Anderson. It takes condensed matter physics as a counter example that knowledge is a pyramid, and that e.g. biolo…

Seeing this really makes me want to do a LateX code generator in Lisp

Talking from my experience, despite its undeniable advantages to fight climate change, the general hostility of the public opinion towards fission (or nuclear in general) refrained…

Totally out of topic, but I highly recommend it ... (Not technically a spoiler) I really liked the parallel betweens the bad guys' language, which was manipulative to the extreme, …

I'm curious, sources ?

I am surprised that they are serious when saying "even a single person being offended is one too many". Not want to start yet another flamewar on CoCs, but how is such a rule even …

Depends on what you do. I've been glad to use pencil in the past, since it is water resistant compared to pen. Useful when you spill coffee on your notebook, or leave your hiking j…

Indeed. Given the fast startup time of Python, I've always just restarted the session (which is most of the time faster than typing "import importlib; importlib.reload()" haha)

Of course, these packages are fantastic, they do help a lot for more experienced users. But for a pure beginner, there is a high risk he will give up Julia after 10s of Plots.jl co…

I think most of the criticisms against Julia come from the fact that people see it as a Python competitor. In its actual state (even if the last version improved compile time a bit…