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"Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number." — Gerald Jay Sussman The context of the above quote was Sussman's presentation We really don't know how to compute. It was a great...
Suppose you want to find all the proper nouns in a document. You could grep for every word that starts with a capital letter with something like grep '\b[A-Z]\w ' but this would return the first word...
This is a short note, whose details I might expand on in another entry. Consider the following deceptively simple Hessenberg matrix:
Unfortunately programming languages are inconsistent in how the support trig functions and their inverses. We present a table summarizing the differences.