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class Memoize:
    """
    Memoize a function based on the arguments passed in. Example::

        @Memoize
        def foo(x, y): return x + y
    """
    def __init__(self, f):
        self.__function = f
        self.__cache = {}

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# Implementation ideas:
# run this past sentient to verify vector based approach is better than timeseries
# get better nutrient data from gen hydro catalogue
# run this past Arielle to see if this is a good default basil recipe
# check this against Dan's grow data to verify this is a good default basil recipe
# evaluate plausability of auto-generating this recipe format from Dan's grow data
# run this past x10 people on the team to see if this is an intuitive way to create recipes
# ask people on the forum if they like this method of creating recipes?

# Why is this idea interesting?

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{
   "_id": "long_test_recipe",
   "format": "simple",
   "operations": [
       [
           0,
           "air_temperature",
           25
       ],
       [

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{
  "firmware_module": [
    {
      "_id": "ds18b20_1",
      "type": "ds18b20",
      "environment": "environment_1",
      "arguments": [4],
      "outputs": {
        "temperature": {"variable": "water_temperature"}
      }

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--[[
Lua multimethods. Inspired by Clojure's multimethods.

How to use it:

    local Multi = require('multimethods')

    -- Create a new multimethod and use isa as dispatch function.
    -- This will dispatch on first argument by type.
    local foo = Multi.create(isa)

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import multimethod from './multimethod.js'

const foo = multimethod(x => typeof x)
foo.string = x => 'called string method'
foo.number = x => 'called number method'

foo('x')
// 'called string method'

foo(1)

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HTML in 5 min

The gist

• HTML is just plain text.
• You write it in any text editor. Be careful, though! Programs like Microsoft Word will trick you. They look like plain text, but they are not. I suggest using something like TextWrangler. It saves plain text, but also helpfully color-codes your code.
• You save HTML in a text file, but instead of giving it a .txt extension, you give it a .html.

Tags

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• Asymco: Hollywood by the numbers. IN-DEPTH
• The Critical Path 20: Below the (belt)line. Explores Hollywood financials.
• The Critical Path 21: Negative Costs. Dan and Horace take on the way income from movies is distributed and why no movies ever make money.
• The Critical Path 71: Bingewatch.
• The Critical Path 80: Functional Structure. What is a functional organization and why is that a thing of beauty? What do Pixar and Apple have in common? EXCELLENT
• Horace hypothesizes that apps will become the new distribution mechanism for entertainment. INSIGHTFUL

In one Critical Path episode (can't remember which), Horace posits that Hollywood is like a distributed functional organization:

• Workers are organized by specialty (acting,

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// Create a spring object.
export const Spring = (curr, prev, dest, stiffness, damping) => ({
  curr,                // The current position of spring 
  prev,                // The position of spring at previous tick
  dest,                // The destination of spring
  stiffness,           // How hard it springs back
  damping,             // Friction. 1.0 means no bounce.
});

// Given numbers, calculate the next position for a spring.

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export const Spring = (x, y, mass, stiffness, viscosity) => ({
  prevX: x,
  prevY: y, 
  currX: x,
  currY: y,
  mass, stiffness, viscosity
});

Spring.copy = (spring) => ({
  prevX: spring.prevX,