Aaron W. Hsu

Aaron W. Hsu

I'm an Orthodox Christian; I believe in the beauty of the careful, considered thought. Computing and education are two of my passions. I'm changing the way people think about computing.
Jul
16
Source Code Readability, Elegance, and Complexity

Source Code Readability, Elegance, and Complexity

I was recently discussing my thoughts on this article: https://mathspp.com/blog/pydonts/does-elegance-matter And I thought I would
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Mar
08
Fountain Pen Vocab: Attenuate

Fountain Pen Vocab: Attenuate

For a while I've been hunting for the right word to describe the difference between the super smooth nib grinds
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Dec
20
Co-dfns support for very large arrays!

Co-dfns support for very large arrays!

Previously, Co-dfns could only support ranks <= 4. Now, the architecture supports arbitrarily large array sizes, though this is only partially
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Dec
15
Ken Iverson Centenary celebration, 17 Dec 2020, 19:00 EST

Ken Iverson Centenary celebration, 17 Dec 2020, 19:00 EST

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ken-iverson-centenary-tickets-132578131761 Stephen Taylor of the Iverson College is putting together a celebration of the
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Nov
13
Understanding the High Performance Planner by Brendon Burchard

Understanding the High Performance Planner by Brendon Burchard

A few years ago, famous personal development personality Brendon Burchard released his High Performance Planner. As popular as it is,
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Nov
07
A little bit of Black vs. Blue Fountain Pen philosophy

A little bit of Black vs. Blue Fountain Pen philosophy

I've been doing some permanent ink tests of various types of inks, and without a doubt, the black, pigmented inks
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Sep
24
Productivity Systems: Bullet Journaling

Productivity Systems: Bullet Journaling

As previously noted [https://www.sacrideo.us/analysis-of-productivity-methods/], I tend to look for productivity systems that are total and holistic.
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Aug
28
In praise of Iron Gall inks for Fountain Pens

In praise of Iron Gall inks for Fountain Pens

I'm a fan of permanent, archival inks. I like the idea that my work will have a degree of resilience.
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Jul
22
Dyalog Tooling Resources List (LambdaConf Talk 2020)

Dyalog Tooling Resources List (LambdaConf Talk 2020)

Here is a list of tooling resources that I mentioned in my recent LambdaConf 2020 talk, with links to documentation
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May
12
My Handwriting Experiment: Italic

My Handwriting Experiment: Italic

If some of my handwritten blog entries seem to be written with a different pen and a different style, it's
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