Some Things I Realized about AI While Contemplating Slide Rule Prices on eBay

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  • dmc

    Digital Mars C and C++ Compiler

    I've actually implemented IEEE 754 floating point code, from scratch.

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/dmc/blob/master/src/CORE16/DO...

    Also, many of the math library functions, though I used "Software Manual for the Elementary Functions" by Cody&Waite for a guide.

  • notecalc3

    NoteCalc is a handy calculator trying to bring the advantages of Soulver to the web.

    Another paradigm are Notebooks. Jupyter style are pretty popular these days, something like Wolfram Alpha's step-by-step mode or this project recently noted on HN https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ are all good examples. Plenty of people use spreadsheets to explicitly chain operations.

    A specific operation is much less important than the context, dimensional analysis, getting order-of-magnitude or precision correct. Performing operations narrowly is probably operating on the wrong level.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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