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> Coincidentally, on Friday I pulled my dusty 1987 copies of Sterling & Shapiro and Bratko off the bookshelf for the first time in literally decades, and built myself a copy of SWI so that I could have a tinker with it for something
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Right, but thinking you can change how people teach a subject without their believing it's worth knowing seems unrealistic, too!
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It seems strange to make "let's make it easier for people to teach Prolog who don't understand it." At very best, this'll lead to students with a minimal factually correct knowledge of Prolog, and no idea why it mat
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> Copyright has been about corporations, not artists, for a long time. That doesn't mean that we should lean into it.
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> I think you’ve have a bad experience because writing a proof is explaining deep understanding. I think your wording is the key— coming up with a proof is creating deep understanding, but writing a proof very much need not be explain
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> It has two kind of problems: wave (the default) and linear. In the first case, the algorithm learns y = ax + b ; in the second, y = cos(ax + b). Are "first" and "second" switched here?
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Or maybe just a very bad implementation of the Fibonnaci sequence.
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> The difference being that a client can be malicious, while e.g. a local file is assumed to behave with the same intent as another. I'm not sure what it means to assume something about the behavior of a file , presumably thought o
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> I tend to forget that people don't know stuff I learned decades ago and consider them as general knowledge. While all of us who are lucky to be around long enough meet the problem of general knowledge changing under our feet, it&#
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> If you write a limit as \lim_{n \to \infty} etc etc then LaTex gets to decide whether to write your limit in inline style (next to the limit) or below. If you want it always to be below then you need to write In display mode, without m
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The author's construction for a piecewise definition will work, but the preferred LaTeX construct is `\begin{cases} … \end{cases}`. (Actually, I think it's from AMSLaTeX.) I believe it always left aligns columns, and doesn'
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> Yeah, mistaking precision for accuracy is a common fallacy. I remember an appealing description of the difference being that a precise archer might sink all their arrows at the same spot on the edge of the target, whereas an accurate a
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> I hate “one in a million” because its meaning depends on how many times you’re rolling the die! I'd argue that it doesn't depend on that at all. That is, its meaning is the same whether you're performing the trial onc
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> I would expect almost NO numbers are rational (integer or fraction) with an infinite number of Reals between each. You're right (technically correct, which is the best etc.)! That is why "almost all" can mean everything
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> "Almost all" in math can mean "except at every integer or fraction" :) I am a mathematician, but, even so, I think that this is one of those instances where we have to admit that we have mangled everyday terminology
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> So just because lock picking lawyer can pick the locks at your home you should just get rid of the locks? (and maybe even the doors too) If the locks treated me, the legitimate owner, as a criminal and required the kind of low-level ac
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> The optimal solution would be using a template engine to generate static documents. This helps the creator, but not the consumer, right? That is, if I visit 100 of your static documents created with a template engine, then I'll s
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> ...which I believe is itself a reference to (farmer in the) Dell. That would be very funny, but it would explain why Dell might use that logo, not why Gateway might, right?
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> But the whole point is that such a superposition is never observable. This makes it the perfect series of academic papers. "Practical Schrodinger's Cat, volume XIV: Still refrained from collapsing the waveform."
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I hope that's a reference to the old Gateway cow-patterned logo.
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In the context, almost certainly North Koreans.
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> Why is this a “political” angle? If you believe its for a long term gain, then you believe in a certain economic theory that others may not believe. What does politics hace anything to do with that? It's a political angle because
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> ##4636## (hn screws asterisks, look it up) You can include asterisks if you escape them, like \*: *#*#4636#*#*.
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> > We can use UB to refer to both. :) > You can, but in the context of the standard, you'd be wrong to do so. Undefined behavior and unspecified behavior have specific, different, meanings in context of the C and C++ standard
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I don't want to be too glib, and, if this is what it takes for someone to experience some personal investment in American governance, then I'm all for it. But does anyone really think that this is what means that America is scr
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> Permissions are the problem with android phones - there needs to be a specific install route for users, one that the app starts asking for things it should not need have access to, the installer refuses to install and suggests the user
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> It's not actually "Ideal" is the point. > You CANNOT create a system that has zero fraud without rejecting a HUGE amount of legitimate work/requests. I think that we are using different definitions of "ideal
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> > for example, in funding experiments chasing after worthless science > This is tricky. It's basically impossible to know when an experiment will be worthless. Further, a large portion of experiments will be worthless (like
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> The ideal amount of fraud and false claims in research is not zero, because the policing effort it would take to accomplish this goal would destroy all other forms of value. Surely that just means that we shouldn't spend too much
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> Yes, but it costs money. There's no solution that wouldn't. True, although, as you doubtless know, as with most things that cost money, the alternative also costs money (for example, in funding experiments chasing after worth

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