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(Jul 17) #javascript

Continuing the series of breaking down compressed JavaScript code and explaining how they work, Frank Force talks about his own mini black hole simulation code (which is barely over 100 characters).

(Jul 14) #programming-language-theory

Metaprogramming has many uses and can be implemented in many different ways. Some languages have shallow implementations like Java and with type erasures, while others are pretty much Turing Complete like in C++. Tristan Hume has written an article going over a the differences between a number of languages that support them.

(Jul 20) #machine-learning

Probably Approximately Correct (PAC), could describe a lot of the algorithms I create, but is also a machine learning framework who's goal is to help guesstimate the number of sample points an algorithm needs to approximate a solution. This article by Chubak Bidpaa goes into the maths behind it and explains its uses.

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Programming language of the day: Checked C. "The Checked C project is extending the C programming language so that programmers can write more secure and reliable C programs. The project is developing an extension to C called Checked C that adds checking to C to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. The extension is designed to be used for existing system software written in C."

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