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New comment by nyankosensei in "Calculus with Julia"

nyankosensei — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:06:45 +0000

I think this is what you’re referring to: https://microsoft.github.io/OpticSim.jl/dev/

New comment by nyankosensei in "Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")"

nyankosensei — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:10:49 +0000

It was made out of paper sheets printed by the “Great Stella” software available elsewhere on the same site:

https://www.software3d.com/Stella.php

New comment by nyankosensei in "Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise"

nyankosensei — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:22:39 +0000

Figure 9C in the paper shows testing in a wooded area. Figure 9F shows transmitted data collected in a residential building, so not a test chamber.

New comment by nyankosensei in "Functional Programming in hica"

nyankosensei — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:59:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting, especially since it’s based on Koka, which I’ve been experimenting with and still trying to wrap my head around. It also reminds me a lot of Shen (https://shenlanguage.org/). I’ll definitely try this out.

How do you pronounce the name?

New comment by nyankosensei in "“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

nyankosensei — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:36:57 +0000

There are many feasibility and safety issues associated with the Reflect Orbital plan. It doesn’t make as much sense as you might think. For instance, the satellites can only illuminate areas a relatively short time after local sunset. The Sun reflection could potentially damage an amateur astronomer’s eye if one of the satellites crosses their telescope’s field of view: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/true-cost-solar-powe...

New comment by nyankosensei in "Misguided Misstatements Continue to Dismantle Biomedical Research in the U.S."

nyankosensei — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:56:48 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433410 for context.

New comment by nyankosensei in "Fast Factorial Algorithms"

nyankosensei — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:40:00 +0000

The OP includes a link to an English excerpt written by the author of the "Swing, divide and conquer the factorial" manuscript:

http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/SwingIntro.pdf

New comment by nyankosensei in "MIT Radiation Laboratory"

nyankosensei — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:22:24 +0000

I noticed from the logo that 2026 is evidently the 75th anniversary of the Lincoln Laboratory.

New comment by nyankosensei in "Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell"

nyankosensei — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:41:51 +0000

I second this recommendation. For those interested, this is “An interactive application for maths and graphics based on the Lua programming language and the GNU Scientific Library.” for both Windows and Linux. I installed it and keep a shortcut on my Windows desktop for quick calculations.

https://github.com/franko/gsl-shell

New comment by nyankosensei in "Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp"

nyankosensei — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:24:58 +0000

I appreciate your offer, but there’s no need. I subsequently found a copy here:

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...

New comment by nyankosensei in "Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp"

nyankosensei — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:09:53 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something, but that webpage only seems to provide a PDF containing the beginning of the book (up through the Preface). Perhaps you need a ACM Digital Library Premium subscription to access the entire book?

New comment by nyankosensei in "Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes"

nyankosensei — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:07:20 +0000

It’s great that Libbrecht put a copy of his 500+ page ‘Snow Crystals’ book on arXiv [0] before an updated version was published by Princeton University Press [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06389 [1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691223629/snow-c...

New comment by nyankosensei in "Matters Computational (2010) [pdf]"

nyankosensei — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:57:13 +0000

I completely agree that this is a great resource. BTW, the Springer site book link is https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-14764-7. I’m thankful that the author has made the book and code freely available.

The author also co-authored a book about historical and state-of-the-art pi computations called Pi Unleashed (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-56735-3). The code and additional resources are available at https://extras.springer.com/?query=978-3-642-56735-3. Though somewhat dated (circa 2000), there’s a lot of fascinating information in the 229 Mb zip download, including a 133 char C program (pitiny.c) that computes 15000 digits of pi.

New comment by nyankosensei in "Differential Growth Addon for Blender"

nyankosensei — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:46:46 +0000

You can still access Usenet posts:

https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Web-to-news_gateways

New comment by nyankosensei in "The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)"

nyankosensei — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:57:31 +0000

I don’t know what the best book would be, but I found this extract from Andy Farnell’s book “Designing Sound” to be a very helpful introduction to Pure Data:

http://aspress.co.uk/ds/pdf/pd_intro.pdf

Another useful book is “Loadbang - ProgrammingElectronic Music in Pd” by Johannes Kreidler. The 2nd edition is evidently out of print, but a free download is available here:

https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/johannes-kreidler-l...

New comment by nyankosensei in "Galois Theory"

nyankosensei — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:01:24 +0000

Another introduction from an historical point of view is “Galois Theory for Beginners: A Historical Perspective” by Jörg Bewersdorff

https://bookstore.ams.org/view?ProductCode=STML/95

New comment by nyankosensei in "HashLife – A memoized algorithm for Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata"

nyankosensei — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:43:50 +0000

You can click the tiny printer icon above the title to display the entire article as a single page.

New comment by nyankosensei in "A lightweight Lisp interpreter in Malbolge"

nyankosensei — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:59:59 +0000

She has also developed KamilaLisp with many APL-derived features:

https://github.com/kspalaiologos/kamilalisp

New comment by nyankosensei in "Cuis-Smalltalk"

nyankosensei — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:41:46 +0000

The developers have written a terrific open source book that walks the reader through creating a Spacewar! game in Cuis Smalltalk (just updated yesterday):

https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/TheCuisBook

New comment by nyankosensei in "AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening"

nyankosensei — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:41:40 +0000

Here’s a link to the referenced article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41693-w