The Mathematical Hacker

http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html

In short: Lisp sucks.

It's not what this was going after OP. It's about how ignorant it's to say mathematics is useless.

/one more internet for you kind sir/

>>1
and the surrender of Japan among the accomplishments of numerical computation, then the value has been immeasurable.
oh no you didn't!

(The implementation of log-gamma is usually a polynomial approximation which requires constant time to evaluate.)
LEL!

"mathematics should be banned as harmful and obfuscated teaching."

-- symta creator, telling it as it is

If the goal is to compute a Fibonacci number or a factorial, the proper solution is not a recursive function, but rather knowledge of mathematics.

Thanks for the laugh, OP.

"alasalamiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn muhammad *explosion*"

- symta creator, in his visit to Jerusalem

>>7
What's so funny about that?

>>9
They are recursively defined in mathematics. Plus his computation uses approximations of irrational numbers so the solution isn't precise. Irrational numbers are infinite and thus unreal and Jewish, you can't show me an irrational number.

>>10
You can't show me a cons cell, it's just abstract bullshite the Jews made up to control our white minds.

>>10
The factorial function can be expressed as a functional equation. The gamma function is one solution of that equation. You're not ``breaking'' the recursive definition when you use the gamma function.

But yeah, the approximations are shit. Numerical methods are shit and FPUs are shit too. Fuck you physics of silicon.

But yeah, the approximations are shit.
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/numbers/2009.8.9/doc/html/Data-Number-CReal.html

>>13
DEAD DOG QUALITY!

>>13,14
Thanks for proving >>12's point.

>>15
Well, >>12 certainly wasn't going to do it. Just look at him! He's an idiot!

This article is borderline trollbait that starts out implying a lack of math in lisp, then proceeds to showcase some bit of pen and paper classical analysis that could be written in anything and ends with saying programmers in general need more math education. The fact that math of a non-analysis nature (graph theory) is used fairly often in non-trivial programming whether the programmer even knows it or not isn't really mentioned here.

Steve Yegge
Who iz dis turd? *FORKS HIM IN THE ANUS*

>>17
Thank you, I have a mild self-diagnosed attention deficit disorder, and I really can't read that whole wall of text unless it's: i) a technical manual of some sort or ii) fiction

>>18
That's Steve Yeggae, man.

>>12
Numerical methods are shit and FPUs are shit too
speaking of irritational numbers, is it possible for conventional computers to ignore them completely?

>>21
they already do

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That's the Jews.

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Hey Terry, how's it going? Sparrow OS still refuses to run on VMWare.

Hi tdavis-kun. AyaOS won't run on VirtualBox either. Well, it's obvious, since VMWare is better than VirtualBox and >>24 just said that.

This thread is bad, and you all should feel bad for posting in it, including myself.

tdavis when will you set up a text board on sparrowos.com for tech support?

>>27
Don't encourage him.

>>28
Why not? Faggot.

>>29
Because fuck you, that's why not.