N!! is pretty standard I think.

R integrate is just a wrapper around quadpack. It works with arbitrary functions, but arguably dnorm is pretty well behaved.

Zstd already existed before Yann Collet joined Facebook.

But also credit for hiring someone and ongoingly supporting good work. Honestly this is one of the more essential things companies could be doing.

You're not wrong, but if we've all collectively decided that companies should be patrons then I think we've made a mistake.

These people are only one reorg away from losing their income, Mr. lz4/zstd should be able to focus on his work without such fears, so great is his contribution to our field.

Yeah it's wildly off the wall how hard it is for enoromously valuable critical people doing amazing things to get support for themselves & their work.

That the direct-corporate-patronage/semi-employeeship model is so prevailing is a sign of brokenness. We need more, collectively, to have a health of our technical ecosystem.

Having these corps willing to hire great folk & have them keep hacking is still often a good option, often. "Create more vue than you capture" is easy to back/do when it's so clear who is out there creating mad value.

Bill Hwang of the Archegos blow up has got to be up there too. He lost 20bn in a couple of days.

How do you get to your 15%? Long term capital gains in the US are taxed at 20% + 3.8% net income tax + state tax. In a city like New York, you're talking close to 40% depending on your tax bracket.

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F# is not a superset of OCaml. There are many things in OCaml that are not in F#. The second link you pointed out lists them.