Dn_Ab

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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
How can you be so certain of the accuracy of your statement? Who are the users of Google's ads? Companies wishing to increase the public's awareness of their products, those who wish to supplement their income with their written works and t
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
In reading this I was curious as to why your timeline struck a note of discord with my memory banks. In particular, the fact that the linear ordering placed on my temporal estimates of when I became aware of the existence of each object as
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Indeed. The closest I can think of to what he is saying is pareto coevolution
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
The sun puts more infrared radiation on your head. And while I have not looked it up or done any calculations, I suspect that if you integrate over total exposure (watts/m^2) to microwave radiation per unit time on your head, for the averag
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
In my experience cell phones and microwaves ovens are thought by the random public member to be carcinogenic. Never mind that some of these people smoke heavily and binge drink. Heck there is a more logical basis to suspect flame grilling t
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Can it? From what I've read it will only raise the temperature of the skin and skull by a fraction of a degree, far less than that absorbed from sunlight. The brain is very sensitive to temperature changes and even a bit more than a couple
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I don't think you used black body in a way that makes sense to your point. Could you clarify? That is, it is true the sun is (approximately) a black body radiator but I am unclear how that supports what you are trying to say. Ionizing radia
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
What you say makes sense. But if someone were to learn a little math and then proceed to tell mathematicians how to solve theorems they would be labelled a crackpot. A person who cannot enrich themselves by learning programming in order to
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
One utility would be that software would be a lot less brittle and a lot more flexible since you would know that a significantly greater than 0% of your audience could use the sandboxed non turing complete language that allows intelligent c
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Keep going and it gets simple again. You put a bunch of leptons and quarks in a specific ordering and they start arranging other atoms in ways to help them understand their own specific arrangement. That they can is why I think it is simple
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Tim Gowers explains aspects about functions in a very clear way. Much of the stuff can be applied wholesale to many programming concepts. Every programmer, actually every job remotely involving math should really know this stuff. As an abst
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Domains, codomains, ranges, images, preimages, inverse images « Gowers's Weblog(gowers.wordpress.com)
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The language does look less cumbersome than Java though. In terms of how interesting I find it, I would place it between Java and Haxe. While I cannot see what it buys you that CoffeeScript or even JavaScript do not, I do not have Google's
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Yes, sorry, you are right. You were talking about representable/modelled by - which I was conflating with Equivalent as Is . A subtle distinction I missed.
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
A correction. A relation is not a function but a function is a relation. A function is a restriction of a relation such that for each thing_a in A and thing_b in B, for a pairing of (thing_a's,thing_b's) by some relation f,each thing_a can
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
fogus links to his list http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083561 which I think is one of the better lists of this type since it covers the paradigm space more thoroughly than most such lists. The only type of language I rarely seen men
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
The only problem here is that each time it has to skip through the entire list so far. I would write it like this in F# for equivalent generality and lazinessas yours let pairs sequence = sequence |> Seq.fold (fun (tailList, l
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I don't know. reirob's and fab13n's code are more general as they do not require that some type of ordering is placeable on its set of inputs. Your code requires that the elements are comparable. So your effectively is predicated on whether
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I would look at the mean and variance in each column and cluster by that. My intuition is that the variance in Temperature measured in Fahrenheit will be greater then that of weight in Kg. Checking it seems that this is borne out. So is the
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That odd couple, “subjectivity” and “rationality”(andrewgelman.com)
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For those who are wondering if this is a crank. He is a notable mathematician. He is most notable for his work on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_set_theory which is a way to simplify the handling of non-standard analysis (calculus
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
My memory of OCaml is faded. Can you explain how Ocaml can be more verbose? Especially since the inference story in F# is not as full due to having to deal with objects with ad-hoc polymorphism. I don't see how Ocaml can be more verbose. Th
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I don't think F# is necessarily more compelling. It is subjective to what you weight higher. If you go to the article at the bottom it lists some limitations. Libraries, tooling and proper parallelism including in GC. Also IMO F# ties OOP w
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Programming is a tool like maths. There are many people who whose life would be greatly enriched by a simple knowledge of ratios and estimation. Yet most claim they have no need of maths. Programming need not be taught for its own sake. It
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I am not trying to correct but clarify what you mean by unified syntax. In OCaml you can say let rec func = ... , let func = ..., let func = function |... | _->... and let func = fun ... -> ... Now I find that each of these variatio
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I am no master myself but I will take a stab at it. * "compose calls the second function and then the first function." I would not call that wrong or inaccurate just very empty and not clear. What is the first function the left or right? Wh
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Conventions in Math- just to make the rules work or more?(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I think it would be very instructive to some of us in the sidelines. It looks like you used the same idioms? Why do you think, what is it about clojure that allowed you to expresses the same thing in less code?
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
The first part of what you talk about sounds like post purchase rationalization. It's a bias much less nefarious than mere ego. The second part is the poisonous way most live their lives. Relatively - i.e. the core determinant of many peopl
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
This video http://techtalks.tv/talks/54443/ on machine learning by Bishop talks about the research they applied to kinect. There was much work done beyond the acquisition. Anyways watch the video, its real good and worth watching for its

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