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Base 8 numbering system?

I'm glad to see that a government elected by rural, blue-collar workers is tackling the issues those workers care most about.

/s

In Rust, could you instead use a templated struct wrapping a function pointer along with #[repr(C)]?

They did an n-body simulation based on the known Keplerian orbital elements. That's exactly what you're asking for, right?

Also, the formalism is the standard way astrophysicists understand collisions in gases or galaxies, and it works surprisingly well, especially when there are large numbers of "particles". There may be a few assumptions about the velocity distribution, but usually those are mild and only affect the results by less than an order of magnitude.

BQN or its ancestor APL are good for this.

But what about all those LeetCode interviews? /s

My favorite non-mainstream language for competitions like this and Project Euler is Julia. The startup time is not a factor, and the ability to use UTF-8 symbols as variables makes the code more mathematical.

"The law is antiquated and should be repealed. The framers could never have envisioned Our Supreme Lord AI and how irrelevant individual compute is today when writing that law."

As a student of floating point math idiosyncrasies, I had always thought -ffast-math should be renamed -fsloppy-math.

I do scientific computing, and even I rarely have a situation where CPU SIMD is a clear win. Usually it's either not worth the added complexity, or the problem is so embarrassingly parallel that you should use a GPU.

Does Rust not have the equivalent of GCC's "-ffast-math"?

And cumulative opportunity costs take their toll.

Corporate R&D dies under the short-term thinking of quarterly profits. The best pure R&D seems to be coming from private companies that are able to sustain losses for long periods of time until a significant breakthrough is achieved (e.g. SpaceX, OpenAI, etc.).

You can use Windows without a Microsoft account, but the dark pattern to do this is very difficult to navigate.

This is a weird story. If I were the dad, I would've preferred to tell my daughter myself. And a Nobel winner being overjoyed to get a free parking pass is borderline dystopian.

How about the Ig Nobel Prize? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

1. Very few people these days understand the difference between hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes. And then converting fonts and character sets on the internet adds another layer of error generation. We could settle on using a single '-' for hyphen and en-dash and a ' -- ' for em-dashes in fonts that don't have a ligature, but that hasn't carried down from the typewriter days for some reason. Microsoft Word is probably a big part of why.

2. No excuse for this.

I was unclear. There is data, but it is expensive to access, so the value proposition is often not there without some beneficent entity.

One example: ICUs typically monitor a dozen or so of these traces per nurses station, so having an automated system for detecting codes would speed up response and avoid missed cardiac events.

The tech scales, but accessing the training data is a real problem. It's not like scraping the whole internet. And most of it is unlabeled.

What is the purpose of declaring an sj_Reader object with an sj_read method if you don't support lazy parsing? Seems like you could tighten up the code by combining the declaration and parsing into one subroutine.

Forget laptops -- I'd prefer this for my grocery bags. It has a clean, nostalagic look that all my free, loud, branded bags are missing.

Should there be a million-dollar prize for developing a way to parse and reflow the text in PDFs in real time? Reading PDFs on screens is a huge headache.

Francis Su is one of the GOATs

There is a company called Nano Dimension working on something like that. Last I heard their 3d printer wasn't at the consumer level yet, but neither were computers in the early days.

Maybe "exponential" means "big" to non-math people. Years ago in a writing class I took, English majors kept using "hyperbolic" to mean "exaggerated". That was hard to parse for this physicist.

In other words, comparatively little of their profits are returned to shareholders. Insiders are making money, but the rest of us are shut out?

And the expert on boilers is probably a 50-year-old dude who repairs them for a living and who you can only find by word of mouth, not a 25-year-old just out of college with flashy pitch decks and pristine Gucci loafers.

Exactly -- they are professional scapegoats to insulate management from the consequences of their actions.

Not nearly as tasteful as Paul Allen's card.