Hahah, I just have to reply and say I loved the original comment and was happy for the laugh. Obviously this is the answer to the riddle of

> Given a 3-liter container and a 5-liter container, both initially empty, and access to tap water, how can you measure exactly 4 liters of water without using any additional containers

I've offered and received some convoluted metaphors recently, love leaning hard into this one.

(Parent was being sarcastic)

Huh! I’m getting rusty.

I always remember it with “g” for ground and “c” for ceiling… haha but I do like the mites and tites one too in a neighbor comment :)

I think the idea is that you performed the exercise to create stress that you want your body to respond to by getting stronger / more aerobically fit etc in some way. So by icing, yes, you recover better, but by reducing the stress you reduce the adaptations.

Imagine you could perfectly recover with some intervention. Then weight lifting no longer works!

For examples like the ones you listed, peak performances where you’re not concerned about gainz and maybe even have to perform again soon after, it makes a lot of sense to do anything to recover quickly.

I find I need two different modes:

- hypertrophy to actually gain strength and muscle (ie. longer recovery time)

- maximum recovery to heal from a strenuous exercise and be ready for more the next day (ie. shortest possible recovery time)

In the second scenario, I don't care about gaining strength at all, and the recovery is the only important aspect.

Yep, this is exactly the point I was getting to.

The stress response is literally the point of working out, you won’t get adaptation without stress.

Sometimes that’s undesirable, ie if you’re in the middle of a competitive league and need to reduce stress post-game. In which case, ice away.

> and maybe even have to perform again soon after, it makes a lot of sense to do anything to recover quickly

For running specifically I’m not trying to make my legs stronger, I’m improving cardio. I need the legs to be in good shape for tomorrow’s hard run :)

In running specifically you need the stress to drive adaptation in the muscle such as capillarisation.

If you’re icing after you run you’re missing out on the benefits of the run.

Not MIT scheme, and there are no proper ports of scmutils to other Scheme dialects that I know of.

Interesting, looks like Ben Greenman started work on a port to Racket, but it does appear that that work is still firmly WIP: https://github.com/bennn/mechanics

That note in the docs is from a time when Emmy only ran on the JVM. Now Emmy runs in JS in a browser (see my top level comment for demo links) which I would argue is even easier.

Also the MIT scheme install was historically quite hairy and not supported on M1 Macs, for example.

I’ll update the docs here. Thanks!

Hey Taylor, thanks for posting these!! I'm still working on the airplane... it's a Vans RV-10, and now out at the hangar and maybe 98% complete, one more full-time month of work that I need to carve out so I can fly it by this summer.

Co-author of Emmy here, happy to answer any questions!

Point well taken from tonyarkles that on-boarding and docs need work. My big goals for this project were:

1. finish a 100% port of Gerald Sussman's scmutils algebra system into the browser via ClojureScript (I'm at ~98% or so?)

2. attach a 2D and 3D visualization system, and use the very-high-level physics abstractions to generate fast, interactive animations

3. make this all editable in the browser

4. write a ton of physics lessons and essays using the system

1-3 are all done, 4 is going to happen, but job + young twins are slowing me down now.

The easiest way to play with 1-3 is via the demos I shared at Strange Loop this past year, all of which run in the browser.

The first two live in Maria.cloud, which has all of Emmy available on any page. So fork these, play and share:

- First-Class Visualizations: https://2.maria.cloud/gist/30dbb25a2d2eb7324e0aad1097c459ae

- MathBox + Emmy at Strange Loop: https://2.maria.cloud/gist/0405c3427c88326a181b307371f939bc

These live in an editable version of a Clerk notebook with a less-polished UI:

- Taylor Series: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/t...

- Dual Number Visualization: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/d...

- (p, q) torus knot: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/p...

- Phase Portrait of the Pendulum: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/p...

- Geodesics of a Torus: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/t...

- Geodesics Klein bottles: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/k...

- Animated Particle on an Ellipsoid: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/e...

Simply want to say thank you and you're awesome. I'm looking forward to the physics lessons.

Thank you for the kind words :)

I used tons of lash splices while building an RV-10 airplane but didn’t know the name until now. Thank you!

I have reverse-mode (purely functional reverse mode at that!) sitting in a branch, and will get this going at some point soon. Even more fun will be compilation down to XLA, like JAX does in Python.