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Functional programming enthusiast, audio engineer & musician. I work both on ugly number-crushing code for plasma- and geophysics at Universität zu Köln, and on beautiful Haskell projects of my own (which, however, seldom seem to reach a really usable state).

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155 Why does matter exist in 3 states (liquids, solid, gas)? Mar 9 '16
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