Plays with YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed Physics in Clojure - Colin Smith
2 HN users recommended this talk in 2 different months between 2019 and 2023.
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Recommended as the best introduction to SICM and sicmutils and a showcase of what such symbolic systems can do.
Colin Smith introduces Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics and his Clojure port, sicmutils. He shows how higher-order functions and a symbolic algebra system can represent Lagrangian mechanics.
Pull quote: “The Strange Loop talk [3] is a good showcase of the power and simplicity of these kind of systems.” (HN, 2021)
Also tagged: symbolic classical mechanics, clojure, sicm, lagrangian mechanics, computer algebra, sicmutils
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