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Calling it concatenation is a little misleading. Japanese is known as an agglutinative language [0], and how verbs are conjugated also has a lot to do with politeness, as well as l…

John Knoll was the FX lead for the Star Wars prequels, and went on to direct Rogue One. The behind the scenes documentaries for the prequels have aged well: https://youtu.be/da8s9m…

My undergrad math professor created one of the first fully online linear algebra texts: http://linear.ups.edu/html/fcla.html It's integrated with Sage, a Python library for studyin…

TQEC supports scalable quantum computing through design automation tools. We are an international team led by Dr. Austin Fowler at Google. All of our work is open source and many o…

I’m typing this comment on an iPad ;-) Which I love using for marking up papers and other documents for quick feedback. But doing research is another story.

For me, reading papers requires deep focus. I have to have it physically printed out if I'm going to really read the whole thing.

From [1]: > We implemented the algorithm on IBM quantum processors using only 5 qubits Last December, a team based out of Harvard demonstrated the ability to scale up to 48 logical…

Reminds me of those old-timey propeller planes, and gyrocopters.

This is what a minifier does, and those go even further to rename variables. Another thing that should be pruned away entirely are data files, including all constant strings within…

This is why grants are really important. That usually means deliverables in a specific timeframe. To me, that elevates open source from a full-time hobby to a job.

This is why I use a tablet. Lets me do math formulas quickly, and can view the notes wherever as long as it updates to wi-fi.

Alongside Brian Kernighan, the "K" in K&R C, and much more Unix lore.

Does that excerpt start with an if-else sequence?

Not sure if they do, have reached out.

I've had up to the mid-college junior level of instruction, but that was almost a decade ago, and I'm participating in a conversation group. I'm looking for good resources to pick …

Not a huge issue to fix (just needs to be upgraded) but it broke deployments to two open source projects I work on over the past couple days. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that…

How can AI be unethical? There's eigen-values everywhere!

+1. Looks fantastic!

As a software developer with some tutoring/TA experience, I'm concerned about whether the next generation of devs will actually be able to code, if all they had to do was use a Cop…

I resent Gladwell to this day, possibly because I was assigned to read him in high school. He is quoted too much -- the 10,000 hours thing is just a meme at this point, for me anyw…