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Thomas Ward
Personal blog · thomasward.comprogrammingsystemsai
Thomas Ward's personal blog at thomasward.com covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Thomas Ward's blog for posts on mathematical notation and programming, such as a page showing that sum notation is equivalent to for loops. One commenter suggests it to readers of a related post.
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What Hacker News says?
You might like this page which shows the equivalence between mathematical sum notation and for loops https://thomasward.com/sigmas-and-for-loops/ And this wikipedia page on iterated function notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function You'll also probably like Think Stats by Allen Downy which approaches teaching stats in a very similar framework (that you can code yourself) https://greenteapress.com/thi…
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