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Lee Phillips
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Physicist and writer. https://lee-phillips.org/
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 13h
Julia is quickly becoming the successor to Fortran, once the standard for high-performance computing in science, mathematics, and engineering. It’s powerful and fun to use. Get a solid foundation with a good book:

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#julialang #physics #programming
Rankings of Julia books on Amazon
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 9d
A better way to read Hacker News: hn-ai.org
Hacker News - AI
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 4d
#Julialang and #Python: Slowly Converging

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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 4d
#Julialang and #Python: Slowly Converging

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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote my thesis in Plain TeX. I certainly appreciate it.
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 10d
The massive response to my #Typst article suggests that Typst is gaining ground much more rapidly than even I expected:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...

#latex #physics #mathematics #typsetting
Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement | Hacker News
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 9d
A better way to read Hacker News: hn-ai.org
Hacker News - AI
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 10d
The massive response to my #Typst article suggests that Typst is gaining ground much more rapidly than even I expected:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...

#latex #physics #mathematics #typsetting
Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement | Hacker News
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 21d
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#Typst: a possible #LaTeX replacement
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 22d
lee-phillips.org/hn-ai/

Hacker News Minus AI Hype
Hacker News Minus AI Hype
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 22d
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Hacker News Minus AI Hype
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 23d
There is a chapter on E. Noether in Bryn Mawr in amzn.to/3YZZB4W. It’s a fascinating story!
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 8
“giants, standing on the shoulders of”

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09...

Daniel Stenberg's amusing and instructive keynote at Open Source Summit Europe 2025.

If you don’t know that everything you with computers, including driving a car, depends on open source software, listen to this.

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giants, standing on the shoulders of
This was the title of my keynote at the Open Source Summit Europe 2025 conference in Amsterdam that I delivered on August 25, 2025. The giants, as in fact large parts of modern infrastructure, stand o...
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 6
You can now buy “Einstein’s Tutor” from Polish booksellers, in Polish translation.

amzn.to/3YZZB4W

#physics #history #mathematics
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 5
lee-phillips.org/vortex/

#julialang #fluiddynamics
2D Vortex Dynamics
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 6
You can now buy “Einstein’s Tutor” from Polish booksellers, in Polish translation.

amzn.to/3YZZB4W

#physics #history #mathematics
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 6
Document programming in #Typst and #LuaLaTeX: some examples

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Document programming in Typst and LuaLaTeX: some examples
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 6
Document programming in #Typst and #LuaLaTeX: some examples

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Document programming in Typst and LuaLaTeX: some examples
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 5
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#julialang #fluiddynamics
2D Vortex Dynamics
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 3
Papers retracted for using a copyrighted questionnaire

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#science #law
Papers retracted for using a copyrighted questionnaire
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 3
Papers retracted for using a copyrighted questionnaire

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#science #law
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 2
“Einstein’s Tutor” (amzn.to/3YZZB4W) now in Russian.
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Sep 2
“Einstein’s Tutor” (amzn.to/3YZZB4W) now in Russian.
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Aug 31
You can use Typst today even if you need to produce a LaTeX manuscript:

lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/

#typt #latex #physics #mathematics #computerscience #science
Using Typst Today: When You Need LaTeX
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · Aug 31
You can use Typst today even if you need to produce a LaTeX manuscript:

lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/

#typt #latex #physics #mathematics #computerscience #science
Using Typst Today: When You Need LaTeX
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