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The Mystery of 355/113 (2010)
Today's date is a good excuse to memorize a few more digits of 3.1415926 53589793 23846264 33832795....
David Bau
Citibank once lost nearly a billion dollars by messing up a transfer form. On August 11, 2020, Citibank was supposed to disburse $7.8 million of loan payments for Revlon, but instead it sent about $900 million of its own money to hundreds of lenders by mistake. It was because three checkboxes needed to be checked on…
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Two kinds of vibe coding
Back in 2009 I posted a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer on the web: a single HTML file with inline Javascript. Just 329 lines of code, each pixel a tiny table cell. Click to zoom. Watch it iterate. That was about it!
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Someday we will all program in Python
I can write a program in Java about twice as fast as as I can write the same program C or C++, and I can bang out the same program in Python maybe twice again as fast as I can in Java. In Python, you just get straight to the point and say what you mean by saying things like: