smburdick
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Comment · 4 months ago
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 local dialects. That's why you can turn on an anime and hardly understand it, even after a couple years of study.
I got to the third year college level in my own Japanese studies, and at that point, memorizing kanji was starting to compete with my computer science studies, so I had to drop it. I got to travel to Japan and live with host families (we kind of settled on a Japanese/English pidgin), so I don't regret the experience.
Comment · 2 years ago
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/da8s9m4zEpo?si=5y5gHUMxztwVzMny
Comment · 2 years ago
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 studying (among other things) number theory. Another prof at the same university also wrote his own linear book, using a lot more illustrations, but as a traditional textbook.
I see this book as a solid evolution in both directions. Nicely done!
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 qubits: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03982
It has been shown that, to factor an integer with n bits, Shor's algorithm requires ~2n logical qubits: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0205095.pdf
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds me of those old-timey propeller planes, and gyrocopters.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 the code, since humans should avoid those when focusing on algorithms
At that point you pretty much have a highly compressed version of what you'd find in CLRS or any other algorithmic text.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
Alongside Brian Kernighan, the "K" in K&R C, and much more Unix lore.