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How Programming Languages Got Their Names

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Have you ever wondered how the likes of Python or Java got their names? Let’s take...
Have you ever wondered how the likes of Python or Java got their names? Let’s take a look at some programming languages and the story behind how they were named.Before we start — If you’re curious about how things are named, check out my newsletter Why Is That Called That, where I explore the origin of words, phrase...

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Show HN: I Invented a New Machine Learning Algorithm

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My initial goal was to create AGI. I approached the problem by first attempting to solve...
My initial goal was to create AGI. I approached the problem by first attempting to solve a simpler problem: how can I get an agent to learn to walk towards food?The SetupI manifested this problem in the following way:The image depicts the following:There is a 2D grid.An agent exists in it (the green rectangle).Food ...

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Programming Language Design: Safe, Shared Mutability with Unboxed Types

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Python types have an expectations problem

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In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static...
In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static typing: JavaScript (via TypeScript), PHP, Python, even Ruby has something along the lines as far as I know.It’s become quite widespread in each of these languages’ communities, to the point of being considered a best practice...

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Higher Order Derivatives of Transforms

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I looked through attacks in my access logs

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Tcl on the brain/worms

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So you think you know C?

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Stop Turning Programming into a Religion

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My dear, priests, holy fathers, monks and other such a folk. I didn’t get my CS...
My dear, priests, holy fathers, monks and other such a folk. I didn’t get my CS degree so I can see you turn programming into a religion.Allow me to elaborate.Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!Humans once used religion to explain phenomena they could not understand. Over time, we evolved. Religious practitioner...

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Every 7.8μs your computer's memory has a hiccup

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Modern DDR3 SDRAM. Source: BY-SA/4.0 by Kjerish During my recent visit to the Computer History Museum...
Modern DDR3 SDRAM. Source: BY-SA/4.0 by Kjerish During my recent visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, I found myself staring at some ancient magnetic core memory. Source: BY-SA/3.0 by Konstantin Lanzet I promptly concluded I had absolutely no idea on how these things could ever work. I wondered if ...

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