Back in college we had an old program used to analyse oscilloscope data named ANAL.
I studied analytic combinatorics in grad school. Had to be sure not to abbreviate it to "anal comb".
Readit Newsmadcaptenor commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
madcaptenor commented on Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar... · Posted by u/leoh
One place you can watch this is Kanopy, if you're a member of a library that has access.
Title should be "Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter" - automatically mangled.
madcaptenor commented on The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived endeavouros.com/news/the-... · Posted by u/doener
Posts like this would much benefit from a terse statement of context.
I've been waiting a long time for us to explore the moon.
I haven't been waiting for an Arch distro to release... whatever this is.
I thought this too. But if there was a probe sent out to Ganymede wouldn't we have arrived at it? If Ganymede (the moon) is arriving at Earth we have a whole other set of problems.
madcaptenor commented on A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland lepetitprince.com/en/even... · Posted by u/gnabgib
I'll let the accolades speak for themselves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince_(2015_film)#...
But don't read about the plot! Go in as blind as possible. The experience is much more meaningful if you don't know the story beats.
I know the book - is it different from the book?
madcaptenor commented on A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland lepetitprince.com/en/even... · Posted by u/gnabgib
The book has been extremely transformative for me at multiple points in my life as I've aged. If I could only recommend a single piece of fiction, it would probably be The Little Prince.
I also highly recommend the 2015 animated film adaptation. It has a rock-solid cast, and presents the classic story within entirely new layers of interpretation that speak to multiple generations at once. It's a real tearjerker that only gets more potent with age.
I'm also not sure why so many commenters here seem confused or negative towards The Little Prince. It is a timeless, culture-invariant treatise on the most precious and important facets of human existence.
I missed hearing about the 2015 version and will seek it out now. Thanks for the pointer!
madcaptenor commented on A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland lepetitprince.com/en/even... · Posted by u/gnabgib
That is a really interesting list.
The number for the Bible is a bit misleading because it is "at least one book translated". I think the number for the most translated "book" would be preferable. Its a bit inconsistent with how it treats series too.
There are quite a few things that surprised me in the list (either a lot more or far fewer translations than I expected, especially relative to other works in the list)
Wikipedia gives 2191 for "at least New Testament", which I assume means all the books of the New Testament, and 698 for the Old and New Testaments. So it's still #1, since #2 (Le Petit Prince) is at 610.
It wouldn't surprise me if the number for the four Gospels is higher than the full New Testament number.
madcaptenor commented on 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40 npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/mooreds
Dr Angela Collier just did a video on children's tv. She has some good recommendations. Evidently before she became an astrophysicist she got a degree in education. Who knew?
madcaptenor commented on Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction blog.ericgoldman.org/arch... · Posted by u/hn_acker
An obvious problem is Apple renders the firearm emoji as a water pistol, and everyone else renders it as an actual pistol.
Also IIRC there are some renderings where the firearm is aimed to the left and others aim it to the right. I'm having trouble sourcing this though - maybe this was true in the past or it was some other emoji that implies a direction.
madcaptenor commented on A Spectral-Geometric Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis zenodo.org/records/175083... · Posted by u/gku
Is this at least coming from the direction that the experts expect?