GregBuchholz

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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   >the classic is the visual display of quantitative data ...I've never read any of his works (I'm not the OP), is that the best Tufte book to start with?
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   I think the impact of Perl is even bigger than what you are describing. I kind of see Perl as the first language which finally lead the masses out of the wilderness-of-C, and brought forth the light of reference-counting/garbage-colle
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   >I also have trouble envisaging a world where cocaine is legally available. But it was once legal and prominent, and I'm almost sure you've tasted the soft drink whose name was derived from it.
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on John Hasnas' "Myth of the Rule of Law". http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
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   Dual Photography [pdf](graphics.stanford.edu)

   2 points by GregBuchholz 12y ago|0 comments
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   Here is a fun site to play with some of the more nuanced corners in C: http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   I suppose that you'll also need to use only open-source operating systems. And motherboards, memory, storage, CPUs, and GPUs. And even then you'll want to audit the supply chain for the computer manufacturer, to make sure that t
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   >tricks like if you are going to add up an array of floating point numbers, you need to sort them first. ...I think you'll want to use a priority queue, with the smallest numbers on top, adding the first two, and then pushing the re
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   by GregBuchholz 12y ago

   >Something that struck me about this article -- and something which I see regularly around CNC hobbyists -- is the unfamiliarity with basic machining calculations ...do you have a recommendation or two for books/resources for learni
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    >...considering the possibilities of the reverse piezoelectric effect. The reverse effect is called electrostriction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostriction
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    Interesting C Puzzles(gowrikumar.com)

    1 points by GregBuchholz 12y ago|0 comments
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    >They didn't think to weight the prior probabilities by usage frequency I don't know if that is the right metric for this sort of tool. I'd guess the use case is for trying to find infrequently encountered characters. It
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Everything by Oleg Kiselyov is great. Here's the link to the slides for the talk, and code for the examples in the paper: http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/logic-programming.html#vs-prol... ...and to his home pa
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Some of my favorite paper's on Maxwell's demon are: http://www2.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist1.... http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Ex
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    I'm not a physicist, but I've always wondered about Caroline Thompson's work, like: "Chaotic Ball" model, local realism and the Bell test loopholes http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Is Assembly geared mostly toward software projects? Or stated another way, are there any physical product projects on (in?, under?) Assembly? The very first photo on the article shows an exploded view of hardware, but a quick perusal of t
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    >Is their government evil? I suppose people can argue about how things are different now compared to the past, but I once worked with a man who was the sole survivor in his village. The rest of his family and village were starved to dea
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    >where C ...I think operator precedence allows the removal of the parenthesis for at least: Ada, C, C++, D, Dylan, Erlang, Fortran, Go, Haskell, Icon, Java, Javascript, Julia, Lua, Mathematica, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, Prolog, Python, QBasic
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    hmm... c = sqrt(a*a + b*b) (setf c (sqrt (+ (* a a) (* b b))))
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    >Can you opt into mine? In Python, not only can you "opt in" to those features (in a completely natural way) but those features already exist in the form of highly popular libraries: NumPy - http://www.numpy.org&#x2F
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    ;;; The Daily WTF to the rescue, no eval or introspection needed (defun my-apply (f lst) (case (length lst) (0 (funcall f)) (1 (funcall f (nth 0 lst))) (2 (funcall f (nth 0 lst) (nth 1 lst)))
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Haskell: (1, "abc", 4.0)
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Here's another more layman presentation with a great video, and its previous discussion at HN. http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140624-fluid-tests-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    > you'll still need pesticides (or lots of human hours. Searching for "arduino laser insect control" doesn't come up with a lot hits (but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser ) ...yet.
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Also related: http://www.dw.de/contaminated-cotton-swabs-send-police-on-se...
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    Note to self: Time to look at registering billiondollarhomepage.com
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    I thought that "junk DNA" was now a discarded misnomer, and that while there are sections that don't code for protein synthesis, it still has a biological function. It looks like it is still up in the air as to what percenta
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    How many lines of code is our DNA? Could there be a similar effect at work in other systems, concerning network size and orthogonality that limits their size? Things like the amount of complexity in DNA of organisms, or the size of cells,
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    >50W/inch^3 is soldering iron level heat dissipation ...we'll 50W/inch^3 is the throughput. If you assume 96% efficiency (which is common for COTS inverters), you'd have 2W/in^3 in waste heat to dissipate. And
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    by GregBuchholz 12y ago

    I think the best way to learn about monads is to write a monad tutorial. If nothing else it is a rite-of-passage.