Here is the Ambi code to calculate the Collatz sequence including a demonstration for the largish number 99,999,999. To run this code simply copy and paste it into the wholly browser based Ambi implementation. // Collatz Sequence Function; function; collatz ; if; import dup $n = 1 neq; ifelse; $n 2 / floor $n...
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Collatz Conjecture and Ambi
Do Not Repeat Yourself
Django has won me over. But it can be improved! Delivering web applications using django is a sublime experience – its core ‘do not repeat yourself’ philosophy and the built in admin application makes development of applications easy and fun. There remains however a major source of “repeating yourself” with django. The schema in...
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Academic Research – searching from your reference list
If you (like me) find chasing down references for academic assignments to be a challenge then you may be interested in this. My use-case is the exploring stage where you would like to save a reference then search Scholar for that author and/or search on the title of the article. I have just enabled...
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Academic Writing experiences with Google Scholar
I have been writing a paper on internal marketing and marketing orientation and hitting Google Scholar and a trial subscription to Refworks pretty hard. I have a few of use-cases that I would like to see better support for. 1) Given a search term which are the foundational break-through papers that initially defined the...
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Ambi – streamlined – loses SEQ operator
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...
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Ambi is now a RPN inspired programming language
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...
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Converting SAT scores to ATAR
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...
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