Cosi1125

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by Cosi1125 6mo ago
> Quasi-monastic orders that still scribe with pen and paper emerge, that believe there is still value in training and educating a human mind and body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem#Plot_summary
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by Cosi1125 10mo ago
On page ↋: "Did you ever wonder just what the number system would be like if man had been created with 12 fingers?" (and an illustration). With the advent of modern AI tools, this question has never been more important.
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by Cosi1125 10mo ago
https://turgen.sourceforge.io/ :-)
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by Cosi1125 10mo ago
Hmm? I was referring to blubber's claim that "established packages have bugs caused by R weirdness."
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by Cosi1125 10mo ago
I do. And I'm still waiting for your examples of "established R packages with bugs caused by R weirdness".
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by Cosi1125 11mo ago
Care to give some examples?
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by Cosi1125 11mo ago
Dexter Holland (The Offspring) has a PhD in molecular biology [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland#Science
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by Cosi1125 11mo ago
Little would prevent attacks by APTs and other powerful groups. (This, btw., is one of the few facets of this problem that technology could help solve.) But a trivial change: a hard requirement to sign up (=send a human-composed message to
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by Cosi1125 11mo ago
"Socialists"* argue for more regulations; "liberals" claim that there should be financial incentives to not do that. I'm neither. I believe that we should go back to being "tribes"/communities. At lea
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by Cosi1125 11mo ago
> Sixty-ten-eight! Sixty-ten-nine! Four-twenties! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze6ZMkT2Z4 :-)
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by Cosi1125 11mo ago
> turn around three times before you lie down. It's not a laughing matter. How else will you repel bugs from your bed?
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
It's not a dichotomy. Stand on the shoulders of giants, sure, but don't pretend you're one of them.
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
The `6` is the code, I just put the first thing that came to my mind there :D In my example, if you replace it with a more sophisticated code block, R will evaluate it and print out the result of the evaluation. Typically, you'd want
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
In R: > `if` = function(a, b) { print(a); print(b) } > if (2 < 5) { 6 } [1] TRUE [1] 6 (Rye also looks like a nice language, though!)
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
OP, one small correction: the abbreviation of "long non-coding RNAs" is lncRNA (lowercase "L"), not "IncRNA".
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
He didn't mention the excellent, fan-made Atari 8-bit port of PoP [1]. [1] https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-prince-o...
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
True. https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
Thank you for this comment. I needed it.
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by Cosi1125 1y ago
It is functional. Arch's AUR uses it as a source for `pilot-link-git` package[1]; works just fine with jPilot. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pilot-link-git
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
Night Watch is really dark. Also, The Monstrous Regiment. But the books I love the most are the ones with an "Alistair MacLean vibe" to them: Thud! (MacLean's Fear is the Key ) and The Truth (Discworld version of All the
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
Certainly not underrated, but I'd say RNA engineering [1]. Now that we have the theoretical knowledge of the many types of non-coding RNA (that we previously considered "junk") and the necessary biotechnological and computa
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
"Stories" are not a finite resource. In the book, Yul tortured his friends (and whoever was the audience) with his adventures and was a rather poor listener himself, but for Jesry and other avout (monks-scientists) it was always m
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
My favorite quote from one of my favorite books, Anathem by Neal Stephenson (copied from GoodReads): "Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations wher
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
Nuclear as in fission power plants :-)
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
Even worse than that, it's not possible to view cities with non-English characters in their names – like Łódź, but also Jyväskylä or İzmir.
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
The Reddit thread [1] in which the author introduces Bearblog explains the sorry state of today's Internet a bit. "What's the point of blogging if I can't track users and harvest their email addresses?" [1] https:&
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
[1] will give you a more programming language-focused perspective, as opposed to many other R books. -- [1] https://adv-r.hadley.nz/
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
To save you a click, a TL;DR from the article: > Python and R both have their own pros and cons. If you can, learn both and use one that is suitable for the task at hand.
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by Cosi1125 2y ago
I can't recommend the book X, Y & Z enough. Written by Dermot Turing (Alan's nephew), it's a fascinating story, almost like a spy novel.
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by Cosi1125 3y ago
Good point. I'd add complex numbers and "everything is a vector" to that. Of course that doesn't make it a DSL. It simply means that R was designed with a particular application in mind . So was Perl (regular expression

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