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I’m an array language novice but my favorite one so far is BQN. Much better documented than K derivatives. Not sure you could characterize any array language as having a “healthy u…

There’s a KSP mod called Principia which does some kind of n-body simulation in which Lagrange points do exist iirc.

For any other array language novices, I've experimented with K and J but had the best experience so far with BQN. It is a bit on the Lispy side like K but much better documented, a…

Especially concerning in light of that METR study in which developers overestimated the impact of AI on their own productivity (even if it doesn't turn out to be negative) https://…

I once saw an explanation which I can no longer find that what's really happening here is also partly "man" and "woman" are very similar vectors which nearly cancel each other out,…

I respect the forecasting abilities of the people involved, but I have seen that report described as "astonishingly accurate" a few times and I'm not sure that's true. The narrativ…

Plenty of people are ragging (justifiably) on Clean Code, but I really admire by contrast Ousterhout's commitment to balanced principles and in particular learning from non-trivial…

Martin Kleppmann's book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a great starting point if you're not familiar with it.

The roads might actually cost more than that: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/30/my-city-has-ma...

I wonder how much of this is an illusion of precision that comes from pattern matching on content from filler sites like https://www.free-hosting.biz/division/16-divided-7.html (I …

The question is not whether perceptions are true -- that's irrelevant. Undoubtedly perceptions present a skewed and unreliable view onto reality. It's whether they exist at all. Yo…

I have heard excellent things about Crossfire but alas have not had the chance to play it -- hopefully one of these days!

I have this feeling sometimes too, but I think there is an important aspect of complex board games, in particular strategy games that is missing from computer games. When you play …

When reading about Elasticsearch I was fascinated to learn that the JVM can often use 32-bit object pointers to address about 32GB of RAM when running in 64-bit mode: https://wiki.…

My impression was that the implications of sexism were directed at Levy, for glorifying the hackers who made Hamilton's work more difficult while trivializing her work to some degr…

Just because Facebook is making these decisions based on profitability doesn't remove them from the moral sphere, though. If the side effects of the decisions Facebook makes are su…

I second the recommendation of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. That book did more than any other to help me both write more clearly and explain to others how to do so (was a w…

One of the nice things about the Clojure standard library is that most everyday functions actually do fit the first/last category (by design). Functions operating on sequences (map…

> One would think curing cancer ought to be amongst humanity's greatest concerted challenges. One of the reasons "curing cancer" is so difficult is that cancer itself is not really…

That does not match my understanding of first class functions, nor Wikipedia's.[1] Python's inner defs are not anonymous functions (which is what people usually mean by lambdas) bu…

If you like Javascript and you want to try a language with a good static type system, you might like Elm ( http://elm-lang.org/ ). As a bonus, it has fantastic documentation and ex…