Shame it can’t spell…

Don’t forget “Eddie the Eagle”. Quintessentially British.

What is lost seems to be the ability to spell…

In the General and Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, it is shown that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is more than merely curved; it is, in fact, totally bent.

A new custom protein design lab has launched in Europe. They have a new approach, Designerbodies™, which allow predefined epitope-paratope interactions. They can apparently tailor the binding site to match the intended application.

Procrastination is related to depression. Try more sleep, more sun and, if possible, long walks in a park or other natural environment. Other forms of exercise are also good.

As you don’t specify the available paths nor all of the states, the question as it stands is ill-posed.

I previously worked for a company developing custom software some of Germany’s leading banks. Even (back in the nineties) when we had to use languages such as Natural and COBOL, we developed a macro language (that compiled to COBOL) to let us use more specific types.

Particularly in finance, yo need to distinguish between dates and durations, between interest rates and volatility and a host of other business concepts. Using strong user-defined types helps catch errors at compile time. I would have no problem, on a large project, with having every variable (with the possible exception of counters, etc.) being a user-defined type. On small projects, where one developer can comfortably oversee all of the code, the overhead of correctly defining types and their operations might not outweigh the benefits. In user-facing code, for example, UI frameworks don’t use business types. Writing conversion routines to translate user input to a business type can be a disproportionate amount of work for a small project.

The original quote is from Arthur C. Clarke. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.