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Aly Sivji
Personal blog · alysivji.github.ioprogramming
Aly Sivji writes Siv Scripts, a personal blog at alysivji.github.io about programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Aly Sivji's technical blog posts on Python and tooling: a visual intro to NumPy and the @ matrix multiplication operator, dictionary dispatch as a substitute for switch, and multiple git config files.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /python-matrix-multiplication-operator.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-26
What Hacker News says?
It would be good to mention the @ operator in the matrix multiplication section. https://alysivji.github.io/python-matrix-multiplication-oper...
Comment linking /python-matrix-multiplication-operator.html
on “A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation”Submitted People-Centric Organizations (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat initiative! One bit that sticks out to me is that the "standard" math functions like `exp` or `ln` aren't imported despite `defn` being quite maths specific. It seems that they could be imported as default functions inside the scope of `defn`. That leads me to a more important syntax question though. Do you have any thoughts or plans on operator syntax for elementwise operations vs matrix level operations? One…
Comment linking /python-matrix-multiplication-operator.html
on “Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU)”Submitted Terminal Tricks: Directory Bookmarks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA dispatch dictionary covers many of the typical usecases? https://alysivji.github.io/quick-hit-dictionary-dispatch.htm... Though I have missed switch statements a few times in Python, when implementing state machines - for parsing or sensor/actuator logic. Though these tended to be quite simple and not performance-critical, so a if/elif sequence was just fine.
Comment linking /quick-hit-dictionary-dispatch.html
on “Exploit custom codecs to write inline C in Python”Can I ask what you find tiresome, specifically? If it's because you have tons of repos, there's a little-known git feature where you can set the config for all repos in a directory, so that e.g. ~/work/* uses your work name & email, without having to `git config` every new repo you create or clone. https://alysivji.github.io/multiple-gitconfig-files.html
Comment linking /multiple-gitconfig-files.html
on “Ask HN: How do you manage multiple Git profiles (GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket)?”
