From Mathematica to Jypyter

Thomas Jollans tjol at tjol.eu
Wed Oct 10 19:29:08 EDT 2018


On 11/10/2018 01:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:09 AM Thomas Jollans <tjol at tjol.eu> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/10/2018 23:32, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>>> Rhodri James wrote:
>>>>> I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
>>>>> check as this quote shows
>>>>>
>>>>> "Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
>>>>> private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of
>>>>> social systems that took centuries to build."
>>>>
>>>> OK, colour me confused.  The only spelling mistake I can spot in that
>>>> is in the subject line of this thread.  What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Presumably Romer meant that it was a loss suffered by everyone,
>>> but that's not quite what he wrote.
>>
>> Sure it is. He's contrasting *private* gain with *public* loss. If there
>> is any ambiguity here it is whether there is a threat *of* a public
>> loss, or *to* a public loss ^_^
> 
> Now read the quote again, very VERY carefully.
> 
> The human brain is very good at ignoring insignificant errors.
> 
> (The troll brain is very good at pointing out insignificant errors.)

... and this is why we need exception tracebacks




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