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Archive for January, 2009

Ambi – streamlined – loses SEQ operator

January 29, 2009

Ambi is proving to be a great extensible RPN calculator. Applying the ‘zen’ of RPN to programming fun! Enjoy the new release of Ambi. This week I have discovered that the seq operator is not necessary.  Initially, I thought that seq would be necessary, however it turns out that the other lambda operators are sufficient.  So...
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Ambi is now a RPN inspired programming language

January 25, 2009

Exactly how to generalise RPN calculation style into a programming language is a question that has fascinated me recently.  I am pleased to report that there now exists a programming language that is a natural extension of RPN — Ambi. A factorial operator may now be defined in Ambi. A new version has been posted...
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Ambi Language

January 20, 2009
Ambi Language

Ambi, A programming language created by David from Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) arithmetic and an extensible RPN Calculator hosted in the browser.
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Converting SAT scores to ATAR

January 15, 2009

2009-Jan-20 Australian students abroad rejoice! All Australian universities have agreed together to follow the recommendations of my report and more fairly convert SAT scores into the Australian UAI! Did you know that in 2006/7 Australian students who attempt to enter university on the basis of a SAT1 score may be penalised by up to 6...
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Privatisation ‘raised death rate’?

January 15, 2009

The conclusion of the study published in Lancet is really Rapid Social Change ‘raised death rate’.  The BBC headline’s focus on ‘privatisation’ is quite catchy though – esp. in a season of unprecedented nationalisation of assets by western governments.
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Ambi Calculator and Programming Language

January 12, 2009

I have created Ambi Calculator and Programming Language as a result of investigation about the possibility of a Reverse Polish Notation Language. Ambi operates in both Reverse Polish Notation and Polish Notation for arithmetic expressions. Ambi 0.4.0 is now released as an online Calculator and Programming Language.
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Myers-Briggs analysis based on your writing …

January 8, 2009

Typealyzer correctly analysed this blog and nailed me as an INTJ.  Great work.  Try it out!
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