Estragon

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by Estragon 15y ago
info screen
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by Estragon 15y ago
with pg's onlisp, you don't need any other source. Relevant excerpt from the introduction There are very few good references or tutorials on macro construction. Paul Graham's On Lisp[ON-LISP] is one of the exceptions. Every
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by Estragon 15y ago
This book was a constant companion of mine when I was a teenager. Damn, I loved forth.
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by Estragon 15y ago
...the guy who wrote that article seems very unprofessional to me He's a highly respected statistician who's written some very valuable books, including at least one very useful book on teaching statistics. He actually says nothing
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by Estragon 15y ago
I don't know about Khan Academy, but a video of the rotations would definitely be cool.
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by Estragon 15y ago
In this kind of analysis, you can't ignore the role of government stimulus spending in juicing the economy. Yes, 2009/10 were better, but largely as a result of stupendous stimulus packages. The current problems are a predictable conseque
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by Estragon 15y ago
That's just the theory of the author of that essay. It has never been tested in court. The "judgement" the author claims at the start of his essay was actually a settlement offered by someone who thought $10000 was worth less than the r
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by Estragon 15y ago
I agree, an excellent article. The main thrust, though, seems to be "This is a terrible time to start any business exposed in any way to US retail. We won't have sane economic policy until at least the 2012 elections." My message to
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by Estragon 15y ago
The set of targeted works is pretty small, from what I hear. My understanding is that as long as you stay away from gay porn and recently released movies, your risk of litigation is negligible.
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by Estragon 15y ago
It would be handy if the spreadsheet came with the IP addresses.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I like "Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
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by Estragon 15y ago
The erosion of faith goes deeper than that, as James Galbraith discusses in this talk from earlier in the year. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/james-galbraith-on-fr... This is the diagnosis of an irreversible disease. The corr
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by Estragon 15y ago
That's his point.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Is there a list somewhere of all these different leaks? It is getting hard to keep track, these days.
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by Estragon 15y ago
The judgement he claims at the start of the essay you point to is probably this: < http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=136832> . It's worth noting that this is the "pay up or we'll sue you for downloading gay porn" extortion rac
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by Estragon 15y ago
Whatever its actual economic merit it seems obvious that there will be another QE3 as soon as the derivatives and bad loans still in play cause another liquidity crisis. My personal investment strategy is exactly in line with what you desc
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by Estragon 15y ago
The book Wired for War is also good.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I'm kind of wondering what would happen to an entrepreneur who started selling these kinds of devices direct to soldiers, through the mail.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Sounds like you enjoy first dates, but if you're looking for a stable relationship, it's much easier when you've adopted a sustainable manner early on.
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by Estragon 15y ago
...1/2 of new HIV infections are from people who would test negative in this test... I'm curious what the article means when it says "Researchers at Columbia University claim the mChip has a 100 percent detection rate." Are you s
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by Estragon 15y ago
The return value of 1 is strange, but superficial. It's easy enough to replace that with arbitrary behavior. The advantage of the approach in the OP is that it is more agnostic about the types involved, leading to more flexible code.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Not linear algebra, although the optimization problem can be expressed in terms of linear programming, I think. I wish you well in caring for your grandmother. That stuff is way more important than programming techniques.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I hear Ann Arbor can be OK.
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by Estragon 15y ago
...am I falling victim to the effect where everything I know how to do looks easy? You could try it and find out. :-) I ended up using a third-party library which implements an algorithm I hadn't heard of before. (My response to
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by Estragon 15y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. Biology is held back by the extreme difficulty of doing informative biological experiments. If you know of biology domains in which lack of good software is the primary rate-limiting factor, pleas
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by Estragon 15y ago
Haven't read the paper, yet, but if they've really established heritability of Parkinson's risk, that is a positive result in itself. The first hit for a Parkinson's Disease twin study suggests that genetic factors play a limited role in t
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by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, I hate that many of my friends (even my wife) use gmail, so my personal email ends up in google's hands for analysis.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Yeah, a throwaway computing device in the network closet, which he then pulled the data from over the net (or, even better, which then uploaded the data to another server) would have dramatically reduced the risk he took. It's 20/20 hindsig
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by Estragon 15y ago
My research concerns the genetic epidemiology of heart disease. The mathematics involved is not that deep.
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by Estragon 15y ago
He didn't do anything special to get into JSTOR. Essentially he was web scraping with a bunch of different user-names and passwords. What about trespassing in and tampering with MIT's network closet?

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