NilacTheGrim

Hi I'm a time traveller from the future. I was born in 2637 in Federated Canadia, a region you would call Maine, USA. I am part of a small experimental group of rearchers sent back to the 21st century to resolve minor academic disputes regarding the history of middle period America. The reason you havent uncovered us yet is because of the time travelling prime directive. We are very careful to cover our tracks and not interfere in any way with history. However, my girlfriend Plora (shes from the future too and a director of our project) just broke up with me. In order to sabotage her research, here you go.

Winning lottery numbers (NY State lottery): 6 16 21 25 37 44

Also some interesting facts and observations about your era:

• your democracy is a failure and there really is an elite clique of ultra rich controlling everything
• capitalism as you know it will collapse in 82 years
• your governments are manipulating you with bad scientific advice about health and nutrition in the interests of corporate profits
• global warming is very real and much worse than you guys think. NYC doesn't exist anymore in my time and was flooded permanently in 2236.

Can't think of anything more now but do ask. I'm off to murder some important historical figures... But will be checking reddit periodically.

You're welcome.

EDIT: PS: Better than winning the lottery: Buy bitcoins. They will go up 10x in price in the next 5 years and 1000x in price within your lifetime.

Not really. If you have $10 left, a $7 bet is a lot of risk (it's gambling away 70% of your money). If you have $50 left, a $7 bet seems low risk. Replace dollars with years in the previous and there's the game theory logic at least.

Add to that the feeling of invulnerability you get when you are young...

I'm still not so sure that's what he means... groupies and all are a thing after all...

The reviews are wrong. It's a very atmospheric game. A work of art. And it does a great job of conveying an array of emotions. I really liked it.

As someone who has worked in Matlab to develop integration components (Matlab APIs that call into my C++ libs) -- I agree with everything you just said about Matlab's strengths and weaknesses.

In defense of the Matlab team -- their language is old and was developed somewhat hastily long ago. I suspect their rush to get to market and their focus on ease of use for the non-programmers led to some of their language choices or some of the lack of foresight. Also -- let's not forget the mid-90's were very different culturally from what he have now. The internet has opened everyone's minds up.

/End Matlab defense

I really like the work you're doing. The fact that it's compiled code and even the interpreter generates ASM is impressive. I read something briefly about dynamic code generation and other niceties. Pretty impressive if that's the case.

I'd encourage you to take a deeper look into the docs (and maybe even try the language).

I'm looking forward to it!

I hope Julia takes root in scientific computing. I know all the scientists that learn to program on Matlab quickly outgrow it. Some learn C#, some move on to Python (not the best choice IMHO at least for numerical sims for various reasons), some resort back to Fortran or C++.

Julia seems like it's the best of all worlds.

Also -- from what I see you've avoided a lot of the weirdness about Go that some people love to complain about.

Anyway I will look into it in more depth. Thanks for posting and great work so far!