One of my favourite videos on programming is the famous WAT? talk by Gary Bernhardt. It’s a masterpiece of making fun of languages’ idiosyncrasies while at the same time making a profound point (whether Gary intended that or not): programming languages have their own way of dealing with marginal situations, and some make sense in […]

The Collatz conjecture, named after German mathematician Lothar Collatz is all that a beautiful mathematical theorem ought to be: aesthetically pleasing, simple to explain and quite possibly impossible to prove. This post will toy around with the conjecture and the underlying series, the Collatz or ‘hailstone’ sequence, in Julia. The Collatz conjecture The Collatz conjecture […]