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ACuriousMind

12:00 AM

@DownChristopher Hey there

Bernardo Meurer

@DownChristopher Don't trust him, he's going to try to sell you proprietary malware

@ACuriousMind Did you see JR's remark in his answer to me on SO just to poke me? :P

Down Christopher

Unless I get free Mathmatica... :P

I just came here as you guys are active and Physics is cool

In math we are working on Hyperboles so no physics

ACuriousMind

@BernardoMeurer I don't know what you mean

Bernardo Meurer

@DownChristopher That's proprietary malware too

Down Christopher

@BernardoMeurer But I needz (or wantz)

0celo7

12:01 AM

@EmilioPisanty link?

ACuriousMind

John's answer seems perfectly fine to me

Bernardo Meurer

3

A: Implementing Miller-Rabin in C

With Visual Studio 2015 Community edition I found two problems. First the line: while (!d&1){ needs to be: while (!(d&1)){ Secondly, as mentioned in the comments your modpow function is overflowing. Try: int modpow(int a, int d, int m) { int c = a; for (int i = 1; i < d; i++) ...

"With Visual Studio 2015 Community edition "

0celo7

@BernardoMeurer please text rebecca right now about malware

ACuriousMind

@BernardoMeurer I'm sure he merely included that to provide complete information and no mischieveous intention whatsoever :)

Bernardo Meurer

@ACuriousMind Yeah right, he had to tell me he used malware to help me :P

@0celo7 Just did

DanielSank

12:20 AM

Hi, everybody.

Bernardo Meurer

@DanielSank There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

ACuriousMind

Hello, Dr Sank

Bernardo Meurer

With that said, good evening

@DanielSank I want you to take a look at my implementation of something plox

DanielSank

plox?

Bernardo Meurer

It's a cute please

I had to write a function to return the nth digit of an integer

int digit(int x, int n) {
    x = x % ipow(10, n);
    x /= ipow(10, n-1);
    return x;
}

I did that

Is it good?

DanielSank

12:25 AM

py3?

C?

Bernardo Meurer

C99

ACuriousMind

@DanielSank A...Brasilian news site as far as I can tell: plox.com.br

Bernardo Meurer

@ACuriousMind Woah, I did not know that

ACuriousMind

Neither did I before I typed it into Google

DanielSank

@BernardoMeurer wat?

Bernardo Meurer

12:30 AM

@DanielSank Just see if the function is good dawg

DanielSank

@BernardoMeurer Write and run tests. Why u ask me?

Bernardo Meurer

Dude I know it works

I'm asking about the logic

I'm asking if it's a good way to do it

DanielSank

If it passes tests y u ask me?

0celo7

@BernardoMeurer excellent

Bernardo Meurer

@DanielSank Because you might know of a way with lower complexity

Or be able to think of something wrong with it

I'm just askign for feedback on a simple function

DanielSank

12:32 AM

k

What's ipow?

0celo7

An apple punching device

DanielSank

@BernardoMeurer your function is two lines. I'm not going to do better ;-)

y we no work on digitalphase!?

Bernardo Meurer

@DanielSank A power function I made that uses integers, all built in methods in C are for float

DanielSank

U busy, bro?

Bernardo Meurer

int ipow(int a, int b) {
    int c = 1;
    while (b) {
        if (b & 1) {
            c *= a;
        }
        b >>= 1;
        a *= a;
    }
    return c;
}

@DanielSank I had 4 labs these past two weeks

:/

This is the last one, of Prog

0celo7

12:48 AM

@BernardoMeurer text her right now that iPhones are proprietary malware pls

Bernardo Meurer

@DanielSank 2 lines is 1 line too much

rob

@0celo7 "There is no spoon" is from the film The Matrix, which I suppose is an "old movie" now, in a scene when the protagonist realizes that his perceived reality is entirely an illusion.

0celo7

@rob I've watched the Matrix a few times

And I understand the significance of the quote in the movie

What I don't understand is what it has to do with Ricci flow estimates

rob

@0celo7 Link to context?

0celo7

bookstore.ams.org/gsm-77

rob

12:56 AM

@0celo7 Search finds the phrase on page 428 and offers to let me read that page for only $86. Is it a start-of-chapter epigraph? There's a lot of idiosyncrasy to those.

0celo7

rob

@0celo7 Looks like I'd have to read and substantially understand the book to explain that one. If you decide you've figured it out, let me know.

ZeroTheHero

1:29 AM

Quote of the day. We should be respectful of all who post questions but I can't resist this one, from a question very recently posted: "but do not want to mess with anything big enough to kill me should I get zapped." It's really time I get some rest!

DanielSank

@rob The Matrix is one of the most perfectly written films ever.

rob

@ZeroTheHero Given that a painful shock was crucial to the discovery that Leyden jars store charge, I think that question is a totally reasonable one for a physics novice. A good answer might discuss how to estimate the energy stored in the jar an inexpensive tool like a voltmeter and some homework problems.

@DanielSank I haven't watched it in ages. I was disappointed that the trilogy went downhill.

DanielSank

It is my go-to example of a lean, self-consistent script.

Yeah the sequels are terrible.

dmckee

@rob What trilogy?

DanielSank

Watch the original again. It really stands up.

dmckee

1:36 AM

They never made any sequels.

DanielSank

@dmckee Matrix.

Oh

Right

0celo7

@dmckee I haven't watched the sequels

rob

@dmckee These aren't the droids you're looking for.

0celo7

My brother told me to never do that

DanielSank

They suck

0celo7

1:37 AM

So I've heard

dmckee

They would suck very, very badly. If they existed. Which they don't.

ZeroTheHero

@rob I don't disagree, but I doubt we will see another another question asking the community how to avoid death.

0celo7

Ok that's a bit dramatic, no?

dmckee

@0celo7 Aimed at me? Well, no, it's not. I live is a better world than ones that has such craptacular, purely commercial pap in it.

0celo7

oh please

dmckee

1:39 AM

There are a number of other alleged pieces of work that get the same treatment, too.

0celo7

I bet you didn' like the michael bay tformers movies

dmckee

@0celo7 No clue. I haven't see anything from the Transformers franchise.

rob

@ZeroTheHero We've had some lab-safety-related questions before. I seem to recall them mostly getting closed, though.

0celo7

@dmckee do you deny the existence of episodes I-III?

rob

1:54 AM

@0celo7 My kids finally made me start them on the prequels. Episode I was as terrible as I remembered, but they loved it. Episode II was actually kind of okay. We haven't done III yet.

0celo7

@rob I really like the prequels

rob

@0celo7 Don't worry, I forgive you.

0celo7

What is there to forgive?

rob

@0celo7 Nothing at all, sweetie. Nothing at all. ::wipes tear:: ::hugs::

0celo7

you're not my father!

rob

1:59 AM

@0celo7 Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

0celo7

no! NO!

It's not possible

DanielSank

2:13 AM

@dmckee they're all terrible.

dmckee

@0celo7 Well, the machete-order notion has let me wondering if it might be acceptable to allow that there are some rather poor efforts at filling in the story behind the big reveal in Empire.

But I certain wish they had been done properly.

DanielSank

I want remastered but not rewritten Star Wars.

dmckee

2:31 AM

@DanielSank Have you seen the Team Negative One restore?

rob

I think that everyone should watch the uncut edition.

0celo7

Machete order motion?

Notion

@BernardoMeurer Quavo x Travis Scott album soon come

DanielSank

2:50 AM

@dmckee nope.

@0celo7 yeah. Machete. You know... Danny Trejo.

0celo7

@DanielSank Evil Mexican guy?

DanielSank

@0celo7 evil is subjective.

0celo7

@DanielSank When did he play a role that was not the Evil Mexican Guy?

Maybe he's been an antihero

@DanielSank Suppose i want to modify $\lim $ by prefixes $s$- and $w$-

How would I go about making a macro for that?

and the spacing of the $n\to\infty$ underneath should be centered

dmckee

3:06 AM

@DanielSank It's from an original theatrical print—as in the title crawl just says "Star Wars" (good news). Being an original, however, it is a 35 mm print (possibly bad news).

None the less, it is absolutely fantastic and quite worth the 23ish Gigs of torrenting.

DanielSank

@0celo7 \newcommand

Fawad

in Mathematics, 4 mins ago, by Maple SE - Area 51 Proposal

Hello everyone!
I want to make a request. I have proposed a Maple SE and its now in the Commitment phase. There is quite a handsome number of commitments made by new users but it worth less compare to the SE users with rep more than 200.
If you guyz could commit, please please help out?
area51.stackexchange.com/…
Thanks

56

Maple

Proposed Q&A site for students, teachers and researchers who are using Maple for symbolic and numerical computation.

Currently in commitment.

0celo7

3:22 AM

@DanielSank but what then

Skyler

5:47 AM

btw, testing

for some reason almost no webpages are responding for me

John Rennie

6:06 AM

@BernardoMeurer To be fair that wasn't intended as a dig. I mentioned it only because I wasn't sure if !(d&1) and !d&1 might evaluate differently on MSVC and GNU C++. I honestly can't remember which operator has precedence in that expression or even if it's well defined.

Fawad

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 hours ago, by Fawad

Hey, http://v.ht is shortest URL ?

Randomly if someone know^

user228700

@JohnR: Morning :-)

user228700

@JohnRennie Heh. Precedence. Flashbacks to high school... brr

John Rennie

Morning :-)

@Kaumudi.H that's one up on me. We didn't study programming at school (personal computers didn't exist) so I hadn't heard of operator precedence.

user228700

Yes, OK :-) We did and it was one of the most irritating things to have to memorise because they would pull this crap in almost every question in the final paper.

user228700

6:17 AM

I don't think I've told u that I know C++

John Rennie

Most of it is straightforward, but remembering what the precedence is in expressions like !d&1 defeats me. @BernardoMeurer that is such a computer nerd way to test if a number is even. Most of us would use d % 2 == 0.

@Kaumudi.H ah, no, I didn't know that.

Though how useful a skill it is can be debatable. I suspect it's only the hard core nerds who use C++ these days.

user228700

I do. I studied only 5 subjects in my junior and senior years of high school; PCM, English and C++

user228700

And our C.S teacher was excellent. I had a lot of fun in that class :-)

user228700

...although I didn't have much time to experiment with coding because of the pressure to perform in other exams, we did need to submit a project each year.

John Rennie

Were there any really interesting projects?

user228700

6:21 AM

Hmm. No, nothing too interesting.

user228700

In 11th, we were asked to design a game and in 12th, a directory of some sort.

user228700

In 11th, I learned some graphics and with some input from one of my computer-nerd friends, I designed a dumber version of the game "Battleship".

user228700

And in 12th, I made a...customer-interface for a hotel. It would log you into the system using ur number, display a menu, allow you to "order" and then, it would generate a bill. Your specific bills would be stored in a public file for you to access at any time.

user228700

I had only 10 days to make the game and only two people in class even submitted their projects so there are quite a few bugs in it that I will...probably never get around to fixing. The directory works perfectly :-) I'm quite proud of that.

BAYMAX

Hi guys !!

John Rennie

6:28 AM

Morning

BAYMAX

Morning @JohnRennie

John Rennie

@Kaumudi.H I suspect I was always destined to end up as a computer nerd. I just had to wait for computers to be invented :-)

BAYMAX

Any reference for classical mechanics like notes / video lectures which covers Lagrangian ,Hamiltonian , Lie brackets ... it would be very much helpful!

user228700

@JohnRennie :-) Coding was such an excellent way to spend my time but I don't think I'd like to do it for the rest of my life...

John Rennie

@BAYMAX Have you looked at the book recommendations FAQ?

@Kaumudi.H I must admit that I wouldn't want to do it 9 to 5.

user228700

6:31 AM

IIRC, I actually spent quite a lot of time in 12th coding; we had a whole bunch (about 20) long programs to write and then there was the project.

user228700

It's so satisfying when it works ; we had these star patterns to generate and that one was so irritating to code >.< But when it worked, I was basically like this:

user228700

Secret

7:18 AM

Translation:

World’s Largest Virtual #Hallelujah Chorus

►

BAYMAX

7:57 AM

Thanks@JohnRennie , any video lectures you know ?

Secret

www-users.math.umn.edu/~garrett/m/v/nonexistence_tensors.pdf

No tensor products of infinite hilbert spaces? Then how on earth do we describe the n electron systems in terms of position...?

6

Q: Is it possible to disprove water memory with an entropy argument?

Water memory was a controversial experiment claiming to provide an explanation supporting homeopathy. The results were largely dismissed as being tainted by experimental error. One possible mechanism invoked was that water molecules, on account of being polar, would form a structured network, th...

It might be possible to simulate such effect if anyone is smart enough to design a driving system so that a cluster of water molecules respond to the external drive and become a time crystal in the process. Then you can have at least short term memory effects as long you don't switch off the drive or do something crazy since time crystals are quite resilent to the change in the external drive once formed

The oscillating state in question could be the clusters taking different conformation as the hydrogen bond arragnement varies in a periodic manner in response to the external drive and its neighbouring water molecules

But either way, I have no interest in homeopathy, I prefer other topics within the esoterics sector

Emilio Pisanty

8:17 AM

@0celo7 amazon.com/gp/aw/d/2881240895/…

John Rennie

@BAYMAX I'm afraid I'm a bit out of touch with current teaching material. Sorry :-(

Secret

If entropy within our brain maximises and we assumed for that moment we are interested in the brain is a closed system, is it possible to form new memories?

kevin Tah N.

8:33 AM

omg have not been here in a while. Hey guys!

Fawad

@kevinTahN. hi Jan, what's up?

kevin Tah N.

@Fawad Hey . . . . . . . not much just hanging out. I figured I'd chat it up here for a bit before I head to bed

So what is the latest in the world of HEP and Strings?

lol

Been hearing a bit about unitarity methods and intergrability

@JohnRennie hey dude

@Secret waaasssss- - - - -uppp

John Rennie

Morning

kevin Tah N.

Good Morning John. I see you still have the black and white pic hehe

Secret

Pondering weird questions as usual, nothing special

kevin Tah N.

8:39 AM

nice

So what is the hotest thing in HEP right now?

Fawad

Define HEP

kevin Tah N.

High Energy Physics(Theory I suppose)

Fawad

sorry,I mean man chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36202083#36202083

kevin Tah N.

I heard unitarity methods and integrability hot right now

Off topic, I can finally calculate things in QFT now fast without thinking using the standard tricks like everyone else. Took me some time hehe

off to bed lol

night night people

Fawad

8:58 AM

@kevinTahN. good night

user228700

10:49 AM

@JohnR: BTW, my laptop has fallen down exactly once till now (:-P)

user228700

...and absolutely nothing happened to it.

Bernardo Meurer

11:05 AM

@JohnRennie a&1 is faster than a%2; most compilers optimize the latter to the former

John Rennie

@BernardoMeurer right but (a) it's not a rate limiting step so it doesn't matter and (b) you screwed up the precendence when trying to use the faster approach :-)

@Kaumudi.H You dropped the laptop !!!!!!

Bernardo Meurer

@JohnRennie Don't blame my lack of parenthesis on the bitwise logic operator :P

user228700

@JohnRennie .__. Ye...ye...yes.

Bernardo Meurer

@JohnRennie If I drop this laptop i'm fairly sure I will break the earth's core

The laptop will be fine

John Rennie

@BernardoMeurer the point is that writing obvious code is good for the poor bastard who has to try and work out what you meant several years later. d%2 == 0 is obvious and hard to screw up.

Bernardo Meurer

11:09 AM

@JohnRennie Wait a second... since ! and & are bitwise,does !a&b and !(a&b) make a difference?

John Rennie

If, for example, you end up working ona big project liek Kodi you'll be expected to write code that is obvious and easily read by the other developers - provided there's no significant performance hit of course.

Bernardo Meurer

I like using magic numbers and inline assembly

John Rennie

Take d = 10 = 1010 binary. So !d = 101.

(a&1) = 0 and !0 = 11..32 times...11 = true

@Kaumudi.H oh well :-)

My latest new laptop has just arrived!! I may be some time ...

Bernardo Meurer

11:52 AM

@JohnRennie Get Linux on it!

Try it!

John Rennie

@BernardoMeurer I have used Linux. I use it for testing builds of Kodi to make sure it builds on Linux and OSX as well as Windows.

Bernardo Meurer

@JohnRennie Which Distro?

@JohnRennie Also, what's a "Tory"? The sentence in the lyrics are "The best way to scare a Tory is to read and get rich"

John Rennie

In the UK the main parties are the Conservatives, who are right wing, and the Labour party, who are left wing. Though like most European parties they are both pretty left wing compared to the American parties.

Anyhow the Conservatives are also known as the Tory party for historical reasons.

Bernardo Meurer

AH

This is a commie band, I see

John Rennie

If you're poor and have a chip on your shoulder it's usual to blame the Conservatives for all your woes.

Bernardo Meurer

12:00 PM

I doubt these guys are poor

poor man don't pierce their ears, that's millenial stuff

John Rennie

Angry young men need something to be angry about. The Conservatives have traditionally been the party of privilege so they're an easy target. That sounds like I'm being patronising, and I guess I am. But I don't think any one party/person/whatever is to blame for society's woes.

HsMjstyMstdn

Hello, everyone.

Bernardo Meurer

@JohnRennie You're so british :P

John Rennie

@BernardoMeurer So middle aged more like :-)

Bernardo Meurer

@JohnRennie Middle? I see, you're being soft on yourself :P

Ben Niehoff

12:16 PM

I'm curious, is it easy to run OSX in a virtual machine?

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff No, it's an absolute PITA

Fawad

@skullpetrol hi pal

Ben Niehoff

:(

Bernardo Meurer

I tried once and gave up because it was too much work

Ben Niehoff

using VirtualBox, or VMware?

Bernardo Meurer

12:18 PM

both

Ben Niehoff

:(

I just need to compile something. I guess I'll have to find a friend

skull petrol

@Fawad hi pal, how's it going?

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff Hm? OSX is POSIX, why would you need OSX to compile for OSX?

Set up a cross compiler

Clang or GCC should work

Ben Niehoff

but I don't know how

Bernardo Meurer

launchpad.net/~flosoft/+archive/ubuntu/cross-apple

Ben Niehoff

12:19 PM

and I would want to be able to test the result, in any case

Fawad

@skullpetrol …Oh I just fought two world wars single handedly, arm wrestled a bear, headbutted a speeding bullet and disarmed a nuke with a tooth pick....how about you?

Bernardo Meurer

github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross

Sir Cumference

Anyone want to hear some neutrino jokes?

I'm bored out of my mind, if you can't tell

skull petrol

Fine thanks @Fawad :-)

Fawad

@SirCumference yes,if it's not too nerdy

Sir Cumference

12:21 PM

@Fawad "What's new?"

Ben Niehoff

I read somewhere that cygwin gcc uses some cygwin-specific libraries and doesn't actually produce executables that can run properly in Linux...is that true?

Sir Cumference

"Neutrinos."

(because their symbol is nu)

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff Are you running Windows?

Ben Niehoff

in any case, I have another gcc from Strawberry Perl, plus a Linux VM where I could just do it "natively"

Bernardo Meurer

I haven't tested whether cygwin binaries run on linux, I have no way of using cygwin

Fawad

12:22 PM

After some googling"We don't allow faster than light neutrinos in here, said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. – I wrote a speed of light joke…but a neutrino beat me to it."

Bernardo Meurer

Free yourself from this proprietary malware

Ben Niehoff

you don't need to harp on this every single time someone mentions they use Windows

Sir Cumference

@Fawad That reminds me of this one

Ben Niehoff

especially if it's the same person as yesterday!

0celo7

Rebecca thinks you're insane

Sir Cumference

12:23 PM

A neutrino walks into a bar...and just keeps on going

0celo7

@Kaumudi.H why would you drop a laptop?

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff I'm trying to help you

Fawad

@0celo7 Rebecca J Stones?

Bernardo Meurer

@0celo7 She's not entirely wrong

0celo7

Kidney stones?

Ben Niehoff

12:24 PM

@BernardoMeurer It is patronizing and insulting

user228700

@0celo7 Didn't do it on purpose, mate.

0celo7

Shits fired

Sir Cumference

@BenNiehoff You'll find a lot of that here

Unfortunately

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff Not my fault you run spyware

user228700

@Fawad: U're the old Ramanujam, aren't you?

Ben Niehoff

12:27 PM

Linux does not serve my needs. Neither does OSX. Sorry that bothers you. Now lay off.

2

Fawad

@Kaumudi.H Iam

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff Sweet, run BSD :)

user228700

@Fawad Hi. I wonder, did u get teased a lot after Ae Dil Hai Mushkil came out? :-P

Fawad

@Kaumudi.H I didn't watched , and I don't watch

0celo7

Clearly @BenNiehoff's needs are objectively wrong

Bernardo Meurer

12:29 PM

^

Electrodynamist

Hi. I have been dragged into the modified gravity proposals these days and I don't find any of them quite promising. Nevertheless, since I have pondered upon the subject for a while, I have decided to complete my first order review of the field.
A friend of mine working in this field has been given a task by his advisor to find out whether there exists any experimental evidence (or otherwise) to the metric compatibility condition. I think that it is trivial that metric compatibility must be satisfied in order to preserve the Equivalence principle. Am I missing something?

user228700

@Fawad Sure, but I was wondering if others teased you. Oh well.

Fawad

Why would someone tease me?(I didn't get the point @Kaumudi.H )

user228700

@Fawad Oh, I was merely joking around about the fiasco surrounding Fawad Khan, which erupted when Ae Dil Hai Mushkil was released; it doesn't have anything at all to do with the plot of the movie itself.

Sir Cumference

Woah I just realized that astronomy is...out of this world

I'm totally gonna use that

Ben Niehoff

12:31 PM

@SirCumference Pretty sure that's on a t-shirt

Sir Cumference

@BenNiehoff Oh seriously? Darn it, I thought I was clever

Fawad

@Kaumudi.H I see

0celo7

@BenNiehoff Bernardo okly

does it because he cares

user228700

@Sir: Any word on the book?

Sir Cumference

@Kaumudi.H I should be getting it today or tomorrow

Ben Niehoff

12:32 PM

if he cares enough, he'll get some people to get all the hardware working in Linux on the Microsoft SP4 :)

Fawad

@Kaumudi.H maybe our Indian friend busy in their exams.

Anyone know why @DHMO is not in chat?

user228700

@SirCumference Wokay! It's a short read; tell me if u like it :-)

user228700

@Fawad DHMO isn't Indian...

Bernardo Meurer

@BenNiehoff Write me an email with what doesn't work and I can try and help

Sir Cumference

@Fawad He's a dangerous chemical

Bernardo Meurer

12:33 PM

I don't have hardware to test though

Sir Cumference

@Kaumudi.H Yup :)

Bernardo Meurer

I'm certain we can get Linux to run well on your machine with some work

Ben Niehoff

I don't have the time to bork up my machine by trying to install Linux on it natively

the SP line is notorious for Linux barely functioning

Fawad

@SirCumference c'mon , he is universal solvent.

Bernardo Meurer

Hit me up if you'd be interested in trying

Gotta go to class

Sir Cumference

12:34 PM

@Fawad Fair

Bernardo Meurer

There's no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels!

later

Ben Niehoff

I am not interested. I have to use my machine for work, not Linux developer experiments

user228700

@BernardoMeurer If Lunix wasn't an OSS, I'd be convinced that you work-part time-as their PR Rep.

Slereah

Mornin

Ben Niehoff

I did try to install Linux on my older SP2. It was a complete disaster

no wifi, no Surface Pen, no keyboard

user228700

12:36 PM

Aii, 90% of the star-board is about Linux .__.

0celo7

Linux is love, Linux is life

@BernardoMeurer reb wants me to install Linux on her calculator

Balarka Sen

good ol' windows forever man

Ben Niehoff

I love FOSS. But FOSS fundamentalism is ridiculous

ACuriousMind

Should've said "futile" instead of "ridiculous" for the alliteration ;)

Ben Niehoff

I mean, it's also futile :P

Slereah

12:50 PM

When a job interview asks me to make an algorithm I always use recursion and they always ask me about the stack and then I have my speech prepared

about trampolining and such

Ben Niehoff

about trampolining?

Slereah

Recursion is a good way to blow up a stack

Ben Niehoff

yes, I know

Slereah

u must use special techniques

Ben Niehoff

I've just never heard the word "trampolining" in this context

Slereah

12:52 PM

Trampolining is a method to convert recursive functions for not being stack blowing

Ben Niehoff

is this different from tail recursion?

Slereah

basically it turns it into a loop

Ben Niehoff

ah, ok, I know how to do that, I just didn't know it had a name

Slereah

It's pretty important if you need to make a functional language

Ben Niehoff

I used Scheme for a course in undergrad once

it was fun

Slereah

12:55 PM

Scheme's alright

It's neat if you're a math guy trying to write a function

Ben Niehoff

the course was AI, so it was stuff like solving tic-tac-toe

0celo7

Are you ACM's coder?

Ben Niehoff

if you're talking to me, I dunno what that is, so no of course :P

ACuriousMind

@BenNiehoff I'm ACM, and 0celo7 can never quite decide whether I'm an AI or a vampire

Ben Niehoff

oh, I see

ACuriousMind

12:59 PM

Sometimes I'm also Alicia Keys, it's very confusing.

Ben Niehoff

you could be both

or all three

ACuriousMind

Shhhhhh

0celo7

I don't think those are mutually exclusive

What I don't think you are is a German male

Too much evidence against that

Secret

Previous night dream:

(forgot except 0celo7 (look like some kind of male) and I were at the lobby corridor of an hotel (has polished wooden furnishing and look very Victorian era). Next to us is a map of the rooms (resemble the Cayley graph of the free group of two generators), which can be zoomed indefinitely and has the property of being locally unbound (each point is a copy of H3, thus to get anywhere requires walking faster than the rate of growth of the space)

BAYMAX

ok@JohnRennie

Bernardo Meurer

1:08 PM

@0celo7 tell her to read my blog

@Kaumudi.H Even my calculator runs Linux

Emilio Pisanty

1:47 PM

So @0celo7 are you investing a thousand dollars into tables of integrals?

Slereah

you can get Gradshtein for like ten bucks

gonenc

hey a quick question:
do you know any resources for GRE subject preparation (physics)? I want something that has a lot of multiple choice questions so that I can get used to solving multiple choice questions faster

Slereah

I have a thing where I have to edit $>$ into $\rangle$ on PSE

ACuriousMind

@Slereah That's called "good taste".

Ben Niehoff

oh man, I hate when people use <, > in place of \langle, \rangle

skill patrol

1:58 PM

as opposed to an "acquired taste"

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