One of Haskell’s features I really liked was list comprehensions. I created a comparison between Haskell and Julia list comprehensions almost exactly a year ago. It appears that Python list comprehensions are as nice as either Haskell’s or Julia’s! Although, having to use Python’s lambda
form to simulate the more concise Haskell/Julia function definition is less than ideal.
Advent of Code 2021 is about to start on December 1.
I recently converted a number of websites over to using Let’s Encrypt for SSL certificates, and the process was much easier than I expected.
I’ve come across the Fourier Transform a number of times, but I don’t think I ever developed a good intuition for what was going on. The following 3Blue1Brown video does a great job of providing that intuition.
One of Haskell’s features that I really liked was list comprehensions, so I was very pleased to discover how nice Julia’s comprehensions are!
This instructional movie from 1937 explains how a car’s differential gears work (to allow the driving wheels to turn at different speeds when cornering) in very easy to understand way! Modern tutorials could learn a lot from this.
A friend sent me the following videos that I found beautiful from a math & physics perspective.
I’ve been using wkhtmltopdf in Rails projects for years. After upgrading to Rails 6 and Ruby 2.6, PDF creation started failing for me. This post documents what I did to get it to work again.
Advent of Code 2020
Some Racketeers mentioned the Advent of Code 2020, and I thought it would be fun to give it a shot this year. I’ll be discussing my solution to Day 1 Part 2, so if you haven’t completed it yet, you may want to hold off on reading further.
I added a advent-of-code–2020 directory within my LearningRacket repository where I’ll be adding my solutions.
Someone on the Julia Slack mentioned this interview with Peter Norvig on the Gradient Dissent podcast.
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The 4th edition of Peter’s book, “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” was released earlier this year.
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When asked, “Do you think that Python will continue to be the main programming language for ML for the next decade?”, Peter replied, “Looking at where we are today, I guess I would be happier if Julia was the main language” ! (40:34)