{"id":1028,"date":"2017-02-02T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2017-02-02T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T04:04:51","slug":"three-tidbits-of-programming-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Three Tidbits of Programming Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m extremely tired tonight. I am going to mention a few tidbits that I discovered today and then call it a night. I discovered that the Julia<\/a> programming language had evolved a good bit since I last looked at it. I started reading a tutorial on it and took a quick look at the manual.<\/p>\n

Second, I discover the Pony<\/a> language. I am still investigating what it is but on the surface it appears to be a very pragmatic functional language based on the actor-model paradigm. I’m still getting my head around what that means. It will probably be good for a blog or two when I start to understand it.<\/p>\n

I did have a mini-epiphany while I was writing my journal entry this morning. It occurred to me that I didn’t actually need to shuffle the number cards in the Countdown numbers implementation. It is sufficient to pick them randomly and make sure that I don’t pick the same card twice. I figured out that this was a case where modeling the mechanisms that we use to try to insure arbitrariness in our distribution of cards in the real world, i.e. shuffling, was totally extraneous if I was depending on the arbitrariness of a pseudo-random number generator for that in the first place.<\/p>\n

I know. I’m tired. I hope that last paragraph made sense. Hopefully I won’t be quite so tired when I write my blog tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Sweet dreams, don\u2019t forget to tell the ones you love that you love them, and most important of all, be kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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