Rui Vieira @ruivieira@mastodon.technology
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New blog post: Introduction to Balanced Box-Decomposition Trees
https://ruivieira.github.io/introduction-to-balanced-box-decomposition-trees.html
Off to the #Turing Institute, in London, to do a talk on open source use cases.
If you are a JS developer, this doesn't come as a surprise. Since I'm not:
['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt) returns [1, NaN, 3]
Scientific Research Shouldn’t Sit behind a Paywall -- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientific-research-shouldnt-sit-behind-a-paywall/
Sokal affair 2.0, or "This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist" (http://thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com/) -- experiments on AI generated content.
This is the source for the "Zen of Python":
Rui Vieira
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Rust's documentation is quite succinct:
"There are two kinds of reference:
Shared reference: &
Mutable reference: &mut
Which obey the following rules:
* A reference cannot outlive its referent
* A mutable reference cannot be aliased"
New blog post: Introduction to Balanced Box-Decomposition Trees
https://ruivieira.github.io/introduction-to-balanced-box-decomposition-trees.html
It is proven! I am ruivieira on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ruivieira/sigchain#adcf904d2b512a8f794ec09c83ae050a02b76446601b56e31342b249ace281b20f
So on the same day I find out that the source for all the #Zorks in available (https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1, in all its ZIL glory) I also find out there's a Z-Machine #Rust implementation (https://sterlingdemille.com/encrusted/).
Blog post: Monotonic Cubic Spline interpolation (with some Rust)
https://ruivieira.github.io/monotonic-cubic-spline-interpolation-with-some-rust.html #blog
If you like discussing the merits of the term “data science”, this article may be interesting: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/18.337/2015/docs/50YearsDataScience.pdf [PDF]
I guess Baumann’s “a fork() in the road” paper is this week’s fashionable reading (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf [PDF]).
@keybase any plans on whitelisting mastodon.technology? Or even better, getting rid of whitelisting all together?
I've updated #Crystal's GSL bindings to support sparse matrices: https://github.com/ruivieira/crystal-gsl
ChesSkelet, a ZX chess engine in 365 bytes (fits in a toot!) - http://chesskelet.x10host.com/
A nice introduction to types in #Idris (including dependent types): https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/03/11/the-power-of-types-in-idris/
There are countless ways you can contribute to Open Source software, not just coding.
Translations, for instance, are quite important: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/translation.md #OSS
Prince Of Persia Code Review:
http://fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/index.php
List of things named after Leonhard #Euler: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler
