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Seems like an abstract/symbolic variation related to tetration[0]

[0] : tetration : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration


  "Art-Sci Currents Interview series is a social media and podcast show bringing art-scientists into the spotlight." 
   
    ...

    This series is all about curiosity, discovery and the interdisciplinarity of art and science in motion. " site intro quote(s) from 11/8/25


What type of data "tests"? aka modeling, simulation, statistical regression, etc.

Wide variety of "what if" data environments/systems which have web accessible interfaces to backends (that are not just database systems).

commerical mathlab, sass

open source[0]: scilab; sagemath; numpy; gnu octave; julia; juniper

[0] : additional link references beyond "5 open source alternatives to MATHLAB" : https://opensource.com/alternatives/matlab


Good question. Let's start saying that Datastripes isn't trying to replace Matlab/Octave/etc. It's closer to a more lightweight scenario builder that runs entirely in the browser. So instead of coding a model, you drop data in, build a flow (filters, regressions, clustering, projections), then tweak inputs and watch the charts update live. We started with the idea of no backend, no install, runs in WASM/WebGPU. Obv, this strategy cannot be a one-size-fits-all, but it covers a lot of use cases in business and educational domains.

It's less about heavy numerical libraries, more about quick "what if" exploration for non-technical users or teams that don't want to set up an environment. Think smaller/faster, but also easier to share where data stays local.


Aso potential for some biomedical research use cases too!

Bit easier setup / use than customized spreadsheet with query links to database.


Perhaps something along lines of setting up / planning robot/activity path? aka (noted in other postings) scratch junior[0]; mblock botly dash[1]; code & go

?? program robot to fetch/push food items to bowl.

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[0] : https://www.scratchjr.org/

[1] : https://blockly.games/puzzle


Description fits requirements to take certification exams for actuary work.


Oh I thought those exams were a thing in the US, but not here in Europe. I'll do my research. Thank you!


Bit dated, but [1] might be of use. American certification(s) bit more demanding.

Blurb on certification/backround differences [2]

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[1] : https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/library/proceedings/...

[2] : https://www.reddit.com/r/Actuary_news/comments/ox4t30/why_do...


> Ask HN: Do you do anything with the "cool" langauges that get posted here?

Categorize & move them to [0].

> When you see these "cool" languages do you try them out?

Check out ways to combine with various other miscellaneous domain specific languages[3]

"doom"d programming can make trying out the "cool" language/domain specific langauge a bit easier. aka 'doom' pdf & javascript port[1]; psdoom [2]

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[0] : https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esolang:Categorization

[1] : pdfdoom : http://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-doom-...

[2] : psdoom : http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

[3] : domain specific languages : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language


Note: reply bit snarky per limited reply space.

Applied application would need to take into account 'relativistic' forward progress of disk aka 'cone'.

Cone longitutinal, "cone normal", can then be used to deform cone into taurus & initiate a load/store through 'wall' from pressure change. (or blocked in 'flip flop' fashion). aka 'multi-dimenstional' inverted UNIX/C "0" result of "while 0" vs. unix 'while !0'. (multi-dimentional punch card / transdimentional malloc)


?? splish extention ?? aka named macros to regexp/group by color tag log(s) of interst.


Why not just install Powershell for linux?[1]

[1] : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...


I could but no one else on my team (which is used to Linux) would touch my scripts.

It’s just too foreign for Linux devs whereas it ships with Windows.


Proprietary 'shell' vs. linux DIY/customized setup.

There are a multiple publically accessible/usable sources which can be found via search engine(s) to extend bash / unix shell functionality based on points discussed in topic link.

few article link topic snippits:

* approaches to autocompletion : [0][1]

* 'man' command and/or cli option -h to cli command shows 'docstring' / options

* jq resources for shell plugin[2]

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[0] https://faun.pub/configure-bash-auto-completion-tab-completi...

[1] https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

[2] https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq



that is a thing that started under Nadella's leadership, during the 90s it was a different story.


Those two "PowerShell"s are not the same. For the sake of cross platform deployment, they moved away from the original a lot -though they managed to support many things in time. The old and original one was released in 2006,IIRC, so it didn't exist in 90s.


Nowadays a lot of people script in python


Yeah sure after they are done fighting with venv or why this scripts written in a different version of Python behaves differently on this computer...

During scripting they can be constantly annoyed by Python's indentation errors. Really awesome stuff when your syntax is whitespace dependent.


> ... behaves differently on this computer...

vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?

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other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:

APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!


Direct link to Datavzrd study overview with demonstrations/links.[0]

Non-technical summary[1]

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[0] : Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data : https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[1] : New open-source tool makes complex data understandable : https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-source-tool-complex.html


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