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I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley, specializing in operating systems, languages/compilers, sometimes AI, usually non-traditional parallel software and hardware architectures. Also: #computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd #compilers #operating_systems #GOF_AI #cognitive_science #linguistics #physics #mathematics Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver Ars longa, vita brevis.

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At first this might just seem to be another cute version of "Kids Say The Darndest Things", but I think she's actually working on a new theory of economics that, in its final version, will revolutionize banking, stock markets, and politics.

Colin Shivers with a discussion about the usual 80% solutions versus the benefit of a 100% solution, followed by his 100% solution of regexes represented by S-expressions for scsh (using Henry Spencer's famous Posix regexp engine in its core):

https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/~shivers/papers/sre.txt

I see no source. Web searching also fails, although I see a re-implementation in Racket, "irRegular expressions":

https://docs.racket-lang.org/irregex/index.html

And this paper coauthored by Colin Shivers: "trx: Regular-tree expressions, now in Scheme" https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/shivers/papers/trx.pdf

Oh, well, I suppose the code would have bit-rotted by now anyway.

"The Golf Ball Paradox": throw a golf ball (or squash ball) into a cylinder and it pops back out (without touching the bottom)

Video by Steve Mould:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbM2Isx17A

Mathematical analys:

(1) "Golfer's Dilemma", Marco Gualtieri et al, June 1 2006, American Journal of Physics, https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2180281

(2) "On a simple formulation of the golf ball paradox", O Pujol et al, Feruary 27 2007, European Journal of Physics, https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/28/2/024

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