Topics of discussion: AI, NLP, Cantaloupe, Primes, and the possibility of being 4/9ths Asian.

Just thought I'd dash out a quick note on what went on last week. PJ pulled off several examples of the ever-impressive trick: hacking with cat. That is to say, he wrote compilable c programs using cat, without re-writing.

Those of us who use interpreted languages were perhaps nonplussed. He showed a clear and utter disregard for the fact that coding is supposed to be hard.

However, I took back my own when the time came to sum an infinite series --- Lisp's native support for calculation with rational numbers allowed me thousands of digits accuracy without writing a bignum summer, making my solution only one line long.

This brought to mind an interesting challenge --- writing code with write-or-die...

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