2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway

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raiph · 2021-07 · Strong recommendation

Right, yes, for continued fractions / convergent series, floats are almost certainly going to be a complete disaster whereas if only integer division is involved, as is the case with this series, then arbitrary precision rationals are going to be exact, and often sufficiently performant for most such series for results up to about 15 decimal digits or so. Damian demonstrates this difference between using floats and arbitrary precision rationals when he shows code for computing Bernoulli numbers in his "On The Shoulders Of Giants" presentation.[0] (Btw, if you care about programming and appreciate a combination of total technical and geek mastery with standup comic delivery, the whole thing is like watching a great movie, whether you watch it from the "start" at the 5 minute mark, or skip forward to the 45 minute mark for the 15 minute Quantum Computing For Beginners section.) [0] [VIDEO]

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raiph · 2019-08 · Strong recommendation

Of course. (For some people.) Here are some videos to give a flavor of the last few years of Perl 6 as it graduated from alpha in 2014 to beta in 2015 to the first ready for production releases of the Rakudo compiler in 2016, to outsiders doing videos about it in 2019 (last video). * 2014. "There's this question of belief". 30 seconds. Charming point made by Perl creator Larry Wall (during a long talk). [LINK] * 2014. "My first P6 program". 3 minute "lightning talk" presentation to an audience of Perl folk. P5er Stefan Seifert shows what they learned and pulled off less than 24 hours after first writing P6 code. (This start led to [LINK] ) [LINK] * 2015. "P5 Pigs". 6 minute "lightning talk" with audience participation at a Perl conference. Stephen Scaffidi sings his heart out about tensions in the Perl community about Perl 5 "vs" Perl 6. (In reality it's not "vs". They're different languages in the same family, analogous to the way Clojure and Racket are both in the Lisp family.) [LINK] * 2015. "Hacking on Rakudo Compiler". 10 minute live coding screencast. Rob Hoelz looks into 3 bugs. [LINK] * 2016. "Perl 6 for beginners". A conference keynote. An hour, or 15 minutes if you're in a hurry. Damian Conway is brilliant and hilarious. If you've never seem him, you're in for a treat. I strongly recommend the full hour. You will not be disappointed. The first link below is for the full hour, the second jumps to the closing 15 minute "crash course on quantum computing". [VIDEO] [VID

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xaduha · 2016-07 · Strong recommendation

With all due respect to Larry Wall he shouldn't be a source of info or inspiration when it comes to Perl6. Watch this instead, it's pretty damn great [VIDEO]

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