Using Nix to Try Tools

In the future correlations article we will learn the following transformation of the correlation coefficient33 The logit function captures the idea that a difference in correlation between 0.95 and 0.98 is more difficult to prove than e.g. a difference between 0.2 and 0.3.:

Looking through the articles I’ve started but never finished, I stumbled over a cool experiment from a few years ago: When a build in a ci environment fails, it usually does so quicker than the time required for a full, successful build. This means we ought to be able to find the fraction of failed builds from the build times alone.11 Don’t ask when this would be useful. I don’t remember.

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This is yet another article I wrote a long time ago but never published, but it was a joy to proof-read it before publishing now. Ada is a very well-designed language. It looks funky with its Pascal-like syntax, but it’s clear people thought hard about how things should fit together to give the programmer a good experience. There are reasonable alternatives to Ada these days (D, Rust, among others) but Ada will always hold a special place in my heart. This is yet another article I wrote a long time ago but never published, but it was a joy to proof-read it before publishing now. Ada is a very well-designed language. It looks funky with its Pascal-like syntax, but it’s clear people thought hard about how things should fit together to give the programmer a good experience. There are reasonable alternatives to Ada these days (D, Rust, among others) but Ada will always hold a special place in my heart.

This is yet another article I wrote a long time ago but never published, but it was a joy to proof-read it before publishing now. Ada is a very well-designed language. It looks funky with its Pascal-like syntax, but it’s clear people thought hard about how things should fit together to give the programmer a good experience. There are reasonable alternatives to Ada these days (D, Rust, among others) but Ada will always hold a special place in my heart. This is yet another article I wrote a long time ago but never published, but it was a joy to proof-read it before publishing now. Ada is a very well-designed language. It looks funky with its Pascal-like syntax, but it’s clear people thought hard about how things should fit together to give the programmer a good experience. There are reasonable alternatives to Ada these days (D, Rust, among others) but Ada will always hold a special place in my heart.