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Lean is a currently-niche programming language / proof-assistant. A proof assistant is basically a tool to construct mathematical proofs, which verifies that the proofs are correct…

The link in "A redesign of our backend, Sanakirja, to make it significantly faster", to https://pijul.org/posts/2022-01-08-beta/2021-02-06-rethinkin... is broken (I get a "Not foun…

Way before @noamraph put it up on in pypi it was internally available in our company. To my knowledge he didn't yet make it 30 years ago, but if he did then probably at least not f…

Ive used tqdm 20 years ago

Facebook runs a lot more political ads than Google and it’s commercial ads that are halting.

Do folks generally keep with the regular secrecy in this situation? (regarding ANA's "More than 50 years ago, the FDA approved a drug. Today, we’re evaluating that drug as a treatm…

Imho her blog is a valuable resource. Can be used to point out "here's what could happen if you do X" in specific cases and in general as "here are a lot of examples for why things…

Is there any other plausible explanation?

> exceptionally good education. Is that so?! I’m an Israeli and I assumed that it’s the really bad education that is responsible for stronger skepticism and Chutzpah.

> So why do we bother with all that coding style stuff if we could make an IDE that edits the program itself instead of text? (I get that text is a universal format, but that doesn…

In the example it is called "NonEmpty". There's the "Stream" nominal type, shown below in Haskell-like text syntax: newtype Stream a = () -> (Empty | NonEmpty { head :: a, tail :: …

It's not a known color scheme. For a while we had an ugly color theme, and then I sat with a designer friend and we fixed it. I agree that it's pretty now :) Apparently colors need…

But the context is that the tooling does type it for you.

I think that you and Peaker are merely interpreting the term "blindly manipulating symbols" differently. Here's an explanation of what the term means: http://blog.absentdesign.com/…

Here's how Euler 3 looks: http://imgur.com/Y9qryWd Note that not seen in the screenshot are the `reduce` and `max` functions which I've implemented, though those are pretty simple.…

It's a custom one that we made for Lamdu using GLFW and OpenGL (via [graphics-drawingcombinators]( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/graphics-drawingcombinat... ). It's been clea…

It is using OpenGL indirectly via the graphics-drawingcombinators library ( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/graphics-drawingcombinato... ). Indeed the fonts may not be as pretty…

I don't think that I am confusing things with value, but perhaps I did not explain my meaning well enough. The problem with cheap AI and robots is not that people will not want to …

That's because we haven't yet produced a general-purpose quality AI which can do everything humans can do and more cost effectively than they do it. But when this happens, pretty m…

They can't, because the people who own the robots also own a robotic police force. Two years ago when Mubarak told the Egyptian army to spray protestors with bullets, and the soldi…

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_equation#History Cubic equations were researched by mathematicians for thousands of years before Tartaglia solved the general case! (bt…

Galois, Fermat, Tartaglia...