Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers. TL;DR generate floating-point numbers with probabilities given by drawing a real number and then rounding to floating point.

/me is listening to “Danny” by The Durutti Column

A simple search engine from scratch. Looks interesting.

TIL about basedpyright, which provides better defaults and additional capabilities compared to pyright, like inlay hints. #python

Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct. #haskell

Differentiable Programming from Scratch: A clear and concise exposition of DP applied to computer graphics.

[Numpy] took away indices and replaced them with broadcasting. And broadcasting cannot fill indices’ shoes. — I don’t like NumPy

P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you.

/me is listening to “Gravity (Still)” by Hooverphonic

A leap year check in three instructions. In Racket:

(define (leap-year? x) (<= (bitwise-and (* x 1073750999) 3221352463) 126976))

See also this followup post by John Cook.