The last few weeks were incredibly busy. Between days of going through corrections, re-running code for the th time to make sure it works on different architectures, tweaking graphics and a myriad other issues – while also preparing for a move overseas! -, I had pretty little time to process what culminated today in the […]
Author Archives: Chris von Csefalvay
This is why we can’t have nice things
I had a university criminal law lecturer, way back in the day, who had an expression called ‘self-organising stupid’. Self-organising stupid is why otherwise sane people suddenly start doing crazy things, until the crazy becomes so prevalent that everybody will do crazy things for no other reason but to keep up. This is how riots, […]
String indexing in Julia
Julia has a few peculiarities in string indexing, an area generally blissfully devoid of such gotchas in most programming languages. Some of these can cause quite unpleasant results, and as such it’s helpful to have a good understanding of how string indices work. The other day, I have helped someone through a bit of code […]