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Thanks for sharing. Very interesting, especially since it’s based on Koka, which I’ve been experimenting with and still trying to wrap my head around. It also reminds me a lot of S…

There are many feasibility and safety issues associated with the Reflect Orbital plan. It doesn’t make as much sense as you might think. For instance, the satellites can only illum…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433410 for context.

The OP includes a link to an English excerpt written by the author of the "Swing, divide and conquer the factorial" manuscript: http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/SwingIntro.pdf

I noticed from the logo that 2026 is evidently the 75th anniversary of the Lincoln Laboratory.

I second this recommendation. For those interested, this is “An interactive application for maths and graphics based on the Lua programming language and the GNU Scientific Library.…

I appreciate your offer, but there’s no need. I subsequently found a copy here: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...

Maybe I’m missing something, but that webpage only seems to provide a PDF containing the beginning of the book (up through the Preface). Perhaps you need a ACM Digital Library Prem…

It’s great that Libbrecht put a copy of his 500+ page ‘Snow Crystals’ book on arXiv [0] before an updated version was published by Princeton University Press [1]. [0] https://arxiv…

I completely agree that this is a great resource. BTW, the Springer site book link is https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-14764-7 . I’m thankful that the author has ma…

You can still access Usenet posts: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Web-to-news_gateways

I don’t know what the best book would be, but I found this extract from Andy Farnell’s book “Designing Sound” to be a very helpful introduction to Pure Data: http://aspress.co.uk/d…

Another introduction from an historical point of view is “Galois Theory for Beginners: A Historical Perspective” by Jörg Bewersdorff https://bookstore.ams.org/view?ProductCode=STML…

You can click the tiny printer icon above the title to display the entire article as a single page.

She has also developed KamilaLisp with many APL-derived features: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/kamilalisp

The developers have written a terrific open source book that walks the reader through creating a Spacewar! game in Cuis Smalltalk (just updated yesterday): https://github.com/Cuis-…

Here’s a link to the referenced article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41693-w

The Society for Amateur Radio Astronomy lists some other interesting projects for beginners: https://radio-astronomy.org/getting-started

This is the NPR full site with better photos showing how well-preserved the wreck is: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197480909/shipwreck-trinidad...

I found the Guided Tour very helpful for getting started with Factor: https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-tour.html It's also available for browsing in the Factor browser w…

I just learned that several mathematical notations exist for Braille: https://chezdom.net/mathematicalbraillecodes/