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by Ended 11y ago
I think you are right, and the solution is a meta-textual reassurance, specifically of the form: " if one of the statements is true, then which casket should the suitor choose?"
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by Ended 11y ago
A great read, thanks. Incredible that he survived that fall.
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by Ended 11y ago
Not just any professor, but Béla Bollobás!
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by Ended 11y ago
It's simulated with Adobe After Effects; I would think it's probably broadly accurate, and uses some form of the underlying physics (Navier-Stokes equation) to produce the simulation. In that sense it's reproducing the proces
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by Ended 12y ago
The IOCCC page: http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/hint.html There is also a colour version. Very cool stuff.
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by Ended 12y ago
On the other hand I find these results fascinating. They are like a microcosm of experimental science. Numerical coincidences like these can be found by any high school student with a calculator, but only some deep theory can tell us whethe
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by Ended 12y ago
Very cool. I would like to be able to send 'stats' (or whatever) and get back all graphs in a single email. In case I forget what I'm tracking.
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by Ended 12y ago
This is a cool idea. My bank recently introduced a similar feature in their mobile app. You can move a small amount of money from your current account to your savings account in a couple of clicks (no need to log in): https://ww
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by Ended 13y ago
"He was tall and muscular, a blue-collar type" A blue collar worker is lower class by definition. As phrased above, the "tall and muscular" bit is part of the writer's observation/stereotype that the man is a b
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by Ended 13y ago
That's better, but still not entirely correct. An array of real numbers is not itself a vector. It is a representation of a vector in a particular basis. This is a technical point but very important to grok, especially when starting to