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Black Scholes Formula in Rust
Our team at Hack Reactor is building a web framework in Rust and for the first day, we took a step back and had a one day hackathon to get sped up. Naturally I wanted to benchmark calculators and that afternoon I tested Rust against Python and Javascript. Results below. Black Scholes Merton Introduced in…
This post is not about Backbone
We’re gonna talk about video games. Imagine you’re playing Mario Kart on a four person split screen. There are four Yoshis on the screen for each player. How many Yoshis should we model? The obvious answer is four: there are four Yoshis on the screen, so there must be four Yoshis. The problem is that this answer misses…
Who is the keyword “this”?
`this` – NBA Edition The keyword `this` is a difficult javascript topic that has been debated and pondered over for centuries – more or less. Its meaning is ambiguous at first glance mainly because what the keyword `this` refers to changes depend on where it is called. Here we explore some of the various ways…
LA Hacks
The event was billed as the largest hackathon on the West Coast and is the only one I know of that lasted both Friday and Saturday night. 36 hours of coding and the list of suggested items included, at the top, a laptop and a sleeping bag. At first I was hesitant to sign…
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