On: Stages of denial in encountering K

[bori5]

“ and you can add 5 to an entire matrix at once as easily as a single number. Why you would want this property remains elusive-...”. Why would that be elusive I wonder ? MATLAB has been doing it since the 80s as an example and that exact elusive feature would have been used countless times.

[andybak → bori5]

Those words were spoken "in character". The idea was that some readers would chuckle at the naivety.

[bori5 → andybak]

And many time’s I shake my head at how people miss humor/sarcasm on HN. Got me.

[AstralStorm → bori5]

Also Fortran and C++ Eigen matrix math library. Very useful for anything that is non-trivial math.