Issue 2020-W30
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This week has been about statistics in China, proquints, property-based testing, speeding multiplications and syntax highlighting for your editor.
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
An article defining a way to generate identifiers that are readable and opaque. An attractive alternative to hexadecimal identifiers.
Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
An article about the speed of the multiplication operation and how it is a fundamental limit for more advanced problem solving in computers.
Wiki.js
An application to run your own wiki with an extensive set of extensions. It's still in early development and missing some of the more interesting features but definitely a tool to keep an eye on.
Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming toolsvideo
A talk on a new (2018) approach to syntax highlighting in the Atom editor and the potential of using tree syntaxes with an accessible API to that tree to operate on it from the editor.
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