AndrewOMartin

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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   If you put a #after the p you'll get the line numbers of the instances too, and you can jump to them with :num. So for LaTeX if I do... :g/^\\\(sub\)*section/p# I get... 35 \section{Introduction} 37 \sect
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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   The Dennett paper I've linked refers directly to the Minsky paper of the article, it quotes it at some length. The content is certainly critical of the notion of a persistent object which helps bucket knowledge. From Minsky's pape
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   In 1984 Dan Dennett wrote why this fails outside of any formally defined context. Cognitive wheels: the frame problem of AI https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3aa1/296bbe4ae9a56aba47343a... TL;DR, (but if you're int
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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   You have two choices: 1) Learn what's going on, press q to start macro mode, and then press a letter to name your macro. Do stuff and when you're done press q again. You can then repeat that macro with @x where x is whatever lette
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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   I sense Gödel lurking nearby. Isn't a formal system for describing maths guaranteed to be either incomplete or inconsistent?
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   He could have at least had the good decency to have used a KayaK.
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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   "A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a cana
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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   I think the toy that first primed me for programming was a marble run construction kit. The feeling of working out where the marbles will go is very much like the one of following code through in your head. Of course, rather than teaching m
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   by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

   One does not simply use tikz / LaTeX.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    The oldest actual automata mentioned in the article is explored (including mechanics and a demonstration) in this YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBlusUD3Kg Note that Hero is credited, and the date is 10-70 AD, b
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Everything you need to know about pipenv is in the linked talk. Sorry, I don't know anything about [mini]conda.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    I was of the same mentality, until yesterday when I watched this PyCon video, uploaded 13 May 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQAKldqgZs To cut a long story short, if you're happy with virtualenv and pip then th
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    spamgourmet.com is this idea as a free (and awesome) service.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Where of course "Asian theatre" is entirely unambiguous ;)
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    You are the nano-hero the Python community deserves right now.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    I was hoping this would be able people no longer judging others or feeling judged about their hair. No such luck.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    I used to ascribe many things to confirmation bias, but now I worry that I can only remember the times when confirmation bias was the cause, and I've simply forgotten the other times. Think about it, isn't it eerily common that yo
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    A beautiful side effect of learning various ways of analysing poetry is that every time you learn something new, this poem gets more hilariously awful.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    I had removed the Fb from my phone before and reinstalled it at a later date. What kept it off my phone 'for good, so far' was that for a while I'd unfollow anyone who posted any utter garbage to my feed, with occasional stra
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    It's not about intent at all, frequently in cases along the lines of "AI did racial profiling" the effect was entirely unintentional, it was the expression of a bias in the data, or an unintended bias from the point of view o
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Here's a publication from the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Select Committee, dated 21 May 2018, "Moscow's Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK". https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cms
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Arguably also off-topic, but the title of TFA is "Read This Before You Buy Any Udemy Course" (my emphasis), so it could be a typo by the submitter.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    I'm not usually that excitable about these kind of feature demonstrations, but when I first made an old DOS game execute from my Linux terminal I did something reminiscent of Lucille Bluth spotting Gene Parmesan.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Should I ever get involved with automated trading, I don't want to use any software aimed at "beginners". Anyway, this article is a trash "pros and cons" listicle for three arbitrary systems.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Just take an initial letter, as in Rembrandt Q Einstein, or Homer J Simpson. I use my middle initial (see my username) because there are plenty of Andrew Martins in these circles.
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Text based browsers have had this option for ages, though some say they copied it from printers. Notably this doesn't help with food, I've been only buying greyscale (Rice, Oreos, Guinness, etc.) for a while now and my mindless co
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    Concur on di.fm, not chillout though. I find Psy keeps the easily distracted half of my brain occupied whilst the other half gets on with work. For calm, I go to Calm Radio on YT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxn8p26WTR4
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    by AndrewOMartin 8y ago

    [Spoilers] It's Switzerland.
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    by AndrewOMartin 9y ago

    But it still contains an extract from the Coca leaf. "Coke dropped cocaine from its recipe around 1900, but the secret formula still calls for a cocaine-free coca extract produced at a Stepan Co. factory in Maywood, N.J." "
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    by AndrewOMartin 9y ago

    Neurons will always be firing at some low level background rate, in biology I think the focus is more on the rate of fire than on individual spikes, and as far as I remember if that's all a neuron ever does it will indeed atrophy. The