Programming
Mathematica was among the first to integrate with OpenAI. The functionality is nicely exposed in terms of a few pre-defined functions. Let us explore some of the functionality in today’s article. The simplest way to get started is to use LLMSynthesize function: It can take a few seconds before you get the answer. If this is […]
Is it possible to build a web application in Python to display (and evaluate) multiple-choice questions? Even more importantly, can we render “latex” equations as part of the MCQ? After briefly looking at NiceGUI, Flet, Solara, Trame, and Streamlit, I decided to go ahead with Streamlit to build this web app. Even though this was […]
I wrote about “Hy” language in an earlier article. Since then I have been exploring the language some more, trying to get a better understanding of its features. The following example uses inheritance to model different types of “Space” objects such as Asteroid, SpaceShip and Planet. It is taken from an earlier article that explained […]
In my last article, I showed how we can use Prolog to generate univariate Polynomials. After I finished that article, I wanted to try Lisp for the same task. Prolog is “declarative”, whereas Lisp is primarily “functional” (it supports OOP as well), so the implementation will exhibit that difference. Here is the primary function generate-polynomial […]
Polynomial is an important topic in High School maths curriculum. There are many online courses that explain the topic in great details with lots of examples and sample exercises. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we can generate polynomials of given degree programmatically? It turns out that this is not such a hard problem after all. […]
The constinit specifier, introduced in C++20, is applied to static variables (global and local static) and thread local variables, with the requirement that they either have a zero initialization or they are initialized with a compile-time constant expression. Here is our first example: Line 17 declares a global constinit variable, initialized with a constant value. […]
“If consteval” is useful in the context of calling a consteval function from within a constexpr function. A consteval function can only be invoked in a constant expression and hence is evaluated at compile-time. On the other hand, a constexpr function may be invoked in a constant expression or non-constant expression. If invoked in a […]
The zip() function in Python is a convenient mechanism for iterating over multiple “iterables” in parallel. Looping over lists is a common scenario. Here is the output generated by the above code: Common Lisp does not have such a feature built into the language or as part of the standard library. Of course, we have […]
The type trait “std::is_scoped_enum<T>::value” was introduced in C++23 to check whether the type “T” is a scoped enum type. Another way to use this is std::is_scoped_enum_v<T>. Before getting into this trait in detail, let us briefly recap the differences between unscoped and scoped enums. Unscoped Enums Unscoped enums are the old-style enums. Look at the […]
In addition to the conventional “==” operator that checks if two objects are equal, Julia has the “===” operator to check for equality. What is the difference between these two operators? The “==” operator checks whether two objects have the same value. Here are some examples: Cell 5 shows that the RHS float value is […]
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