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17:24:33
aeth
MichaelRaskin: I'm not sure if there is one, but if it was widespread there probably would be one. I don't do much web stuff, though
17:25:59
aeth
Kabriel: Ah, okay, I guess there's a high python-to-numpy-to-C/Fortran overhead, then. Not surprising.
17:26:10
MichaelRaskin
Well, maths where where just a properly considered alt text is not sufficient gives an upper bound on the spread…
17:26:14
aeth
Kabriel: f2cl lapack might "work pretty well", but run disassemble on them in SBCL and they don't come close to stuff written by hand with SBCL's optimizations in mind in terms of quality of generated asm
17:29:12
aeth
MichaelRaskin: technically speaking, every math formula is readable, like (to write some mathematical nonsense) "(a + b) / c = 42 ⇒ ε ∊ (-∞, 7]" is just "a + b over c equals 42 implies epsilon is in the range -∞ to 7 inclusive of 7" or something
17:29:51
aeth
Now, whether or not any tool is that smart, idk, but if you provide something like MathML (or LaTeX!) it could in theory be done
17:32:43
MichaelRaskin
In complicated LaTeX formula structure is sometimes sacrificed for output readability and aesthetics
17:33:29
aeth
Yes, which is why MathML would probably be better. Technically it's still "presentation MathML" but it's probably easier to parse
17:33:35
MichaelRaskin
Of course, one hopes that the maths you use _in documentation_ should not be _that_ complicated and even LaTeX might be readable
17:51:43
aeth
If there isn't a formal description of Common Lisp, you'd have to write it to cite it, of course.
19:48:36
Bike
stop me if you've heard this one before: The world is everything that is the case. The world is the totality of facts, n
22:08:22
Tordek
is there a standard way to have a variable at a particular memory position? e.g., if I were coding for embedded and I needed "char PORTA @ 0x0024;"
22:50:28
arwn
i'm writing an expert system. currently the function i call to add rules is called with this syntax: `(add-rule (rule-if a and (not b) then c)` rule-if is a macro. how would i change the syntax to drop the parentheses from (not b) and check if there is a not before a or b?
22:53:40
no-defun-allowed
You would probably need to introduce some kind of "parser" since the position of keywords in the syntax changes now.
22:54:20
arwn
ok so i can't just hack it together.. that makes sense. I'll read up on writing a parser.
23:04:10
Bike
well if then and c are always one thing each, it would be pretty easy to parse, b is just all elements except the outer two on each side
5:01:24
LdBeth
So I got a book printed in 1960's, the inner pages look so new that I'm too hesitate to open and read it