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In "My Little Pony the movie" Twilight Sparkle explains to Celestia and Luna how she wants the Sun and the Moon organized. She uses mathematical formula written on a blackboard. I …

Build a bridge out of her!

I liked the text about typeclasses. It is a standalone piece, "Typeclasses 102" in LYaH is a part of a chapter of a bigger piece. I think you achieved your goal - your Pokemon exam…

So animated mouse pointers are OK, blinking cursor in command prompt is OK, Teams starting with the system is OK, but counting seconds is overkill for Windows? I would probably not…

I learned from Bender, Orszag "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers I".

SV and VHDL are nasty languages, but as you said, they are "industry standard". Chisel and Haskell-based approaches are better but virtually nobody adopts them. I tried to go in an…

From FPGA design point of view SystemVerilog is OK. I think it gives high enough level of abstraction to create even complex systems. It can also be readable after some years if ca…

I tend to disagree. Asm.js is dying. Webassembly is not "everything on top of JavaScript". While higher layers can work the same as they could with asm.js (still in the web browser…

Julia with ArrayFire seems to be straightforward, efficient and easy to use.

The game is great. And really hard. I got stuck on the ship for hours, then I got bored and never came back to the game. But someday in the future I will finish it (without cheatin…

It's funny this site doesn't mention dialog - the only feature I'm using that is hard to replace by vanilla JS... jQuery speeds up development, but in most situations it's straight…

TeX, BLAS, Vim and Emacs

Day 15 took me about 8 months, but I finally discovered I had made one wrong assumption that corrupted my solution for special cases...