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Apologies if unclear, that is what I meant be stack-based. Article implies that you cannot create a dynamically sized object on the stack.

Nice article. Minor gripe about the static vs dynamic memory section. The requirement that the data sizes be known at compile-time for static memory (with the example of an array a…

Hmm, I'm maybe missing something in this example. In the two slit experiment, a single photon can appear to go through two slits simultaneously. You appear to be suggesting that th…

I think the distinction is that observation can affect a system. In order to look at a particle, you need to bounce a photon off of it, which affects it. The particle/wave still ex…

Interesting concept. The article mentioned that other languages determine blocking automatically based on usage of the variables. So in your example, it could be determined that x …

Very interesting, good analogies and information for me to think about.

Interesting, thanks!

Thanks! That's an interesting fact about Feynman diagrams. If we had a hypothetical machine which could perform these calculations with infinite precision, would the "virtual parti…

Thanks! That's a really nice explanation. I keep forgetting that particles don't really exist so much as a wave function does in the Copenhagen interpretation, so that gives me a n…

Can you give me some hints on what virtual particles actually are if its not too complicated? I keep reading that they are not actually real particles, only useful for calculations…

That's not quite accurate. Local hidden variable theories have been proven wrong, but pilot wave theory is a nonlocal hidden variable theory. Bell himself was a proponent of pilot …

"lambdas that aren't as powerful as proper function defs" I don't really follow this. I think we should use the right tool for the job. I don't need something that is "more powerfu…

I think this is the point. You can do all these things, but they are all extra hoops you have to jump through when all you want/need is an anonymous on-the-spot closure.

Closures are functions that can capture values/references visible in the scope where the function is defined/instantiated. They are basically a short hand way of creating function …

Sorry, I edited my comment and you may have missed it. How would you emulate multi-line closures in Python? A free function which you can pass to a higher order function is not a c…

Sure, but I think that is the point. You can do that, but its not as convenient and becomes harder to read. And besides, those are free functions you speak of, not closures. To emu…

lambda bodies can only be a single expression

Good point about robustness, it makes sense in the general case, but if I have a container of integers, I think the chance that I replace int with a more expensive type while not h…

I use const auto on occasion, when the element type is inexpensive to copy. If I'm iterating over a vector if int's, why would I prefer const auto& over const auto? Assuming the co…