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Matthew Sottile

Personal blog · syntacticsalt.comprogrammingmath

Matthew Sottile's personal blog at syntacticsalt.com covers programming and math. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Matthew Sottile's blog for writing on languages, functional programming and scientific computing, including a Haskell model of pendulum-wave harmonic motion.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Interesting to see this come up again. Here’s a small model for this system written in Haskell from a few years back: http://syntacticsalt.com/blog/2011-08-27-harmonic-motion.htm...

    Comment linking /blog/2011-08-27-harmonic-motion.html

    on “Pendulum Waves (2010)”
  2. Submitted Functional flocks : modelling and visualizing flocking behavior in Haskell as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  3. dons · 2011-02-19Recommends
    My colleague, Matt Sottile, has a nice blog on languages, functional programming, and scientific (often numerical) computing, http://syntacticsalt.com/

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    on “Disciple: A Strict Dialect of Haskell”
  4. Submitted Solving Sudoku via SAT with Mathematica as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Book on Concurrency in Programming Languages as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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