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In our last primer we saw the Fourier series, which flushed out the notion that a periodic function can be represented as an infinite series of sines and cosines. While this is fine and dandy, and quite a powerful tool, it does not suffice for the real world. In the real world, very little is truly periodic, especially since human measurements can only record a finite period of time. Even things we wish to explore on this blog are hardly periodic (for instance, image analysis).
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Clojure is a dynamically, strongly typed programming language. It's a dialect of _Lisp_ running on the Java Virtual Machine. Lisp is 6 decades old and has a really weird syntax. That weird syntax is called _Polish prefix notation_. Basically, in every other language you've used math operators like plus or minus are infix. It means they are placed between operands. For example, `1 + 2`. In Clojure, you always put the operator (or any other function for that matter) in front. So simple addition becomes... `+ 1 2`.
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When collecting data from scientific experiments, it's often useful to compare individual samples against each other to see how similar they are. One way to do this is using the...
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Today I've played around with Zig, the new, hip (is it hip?) programming language. I find it pretty neat. I'm going to walk you (and myself) through my first, very short, piece of code. Below you can see the entirety of it. It basically allocates a 2MB buffer and reads a file into it... Yep, not particularly impressive, but this is a judgment free, learning zone, ok?! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 const std = @import("std"); const warn = @import("std").
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