Understanding Time

by Jan-MarkCoding, Designing A LanguagePosted on Comments are Disabled

With behavioral data, time plays a very important role. Yet, time-related data is especially hard to analyze. The main culprit is the fact that time concepts are confusing. While humans can handle time intuitively, passing these intuitions to a computer program is hard. For example, implementing a growth rate using a relative duration of “twelve …

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Kinda Like Assert

by Jan-MarkCoding, Designing A LanguagePosted on 2 Comments

In 1983 my math teacher wrote on the blackboard: P{Q}R. Ever since, my code is loaded with assertions. “Assertions should be used to document logically impossible situations and discover programming errors […] This is distinct from error handling: most error conditions are possible, although some may be extremely unlikely“. (Wikipedia) [Assertion] We all have seen, …

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