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Why not use the same approach to port the full set of Matlab libraries to Octave?

(or a open source language of your choice)

Matlab manuals are public: it would be clean room reverse engineering.

(and many times, the appropriate bibliography of the underlying definitions of what is being implemented is listed on the manual page)


It will be inevitable that this generalizes.

Easy guess:

Nature will find a way around this - and - a "rabbits in Australia" outcome is quite possible.

Much better to use AI to design a multi-enzyme/protein pill / vaccine to get humans & pets & livestock out of the mosquito food chain.


What could possibly go wrong?

Nature always finds a way.

Also PicoMite as a simpler alternative, in this space, for the Raspberry Pico:

https://geoffg.net/picomite.html


The 1st Amiga presentation at CES was exactly at a critical time when IBM’s PCjr was failing in the market.

…why didn’t IBM buy the Amiga company outright and use Lorraine as a multimedia chipset for a “PCjr 2”?


Japanese PCjr, aka IBM JX / IBM 5511:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_JX


And encase it in the cool Japanese version of PCjr!


Does this model predict the CMB peaks?


What amazes me in this whole story is that Coleco didn’t try to make money - it desperately needed - by building or licensing an adapter cartridge to run Coleco Vision games on the MSX.


What word with a suffix that rhymes with car?

What exactly is he talking about?


Arr as in pirate.lots of tools that support piracy end with that suffix like sonarr etc


I'm guessing the '*arr' suite of collection-management tools


Pandoc should have been in the comparison table.


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