Leszek

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by Leszek 12y ago
Does he build rockets?
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by Leszek 12y ago
What would the guideline be made of?
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by Leszek 12y ago
Yeah, fair point actually.
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by Leszek 12y ago
Any reasoning about TeX being able to do things that HTML can't is irrelevant. TeX -> PDF can be done without an intermediate DVI stage using pdftex. There could therefore be a similar "htmltex" which could directly conver
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by Leszek 12y ago
Or "display:flexible-box", maybe even shortening that somehow. Hmm.
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by Leszek 12y ago
The point isn't to convert a TeX program into an equivalent HTML program, it's to be HTML an output of a TeX program. For example, make \emph{foo} output "<i>foo</i>" instead of "/Times-Italic
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by Leszek 12y ago
From Wikipedia: > The world's first computer science degree program, the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science, began at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1953. The first computer science degree program in the Unite
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by Leszek 12y ago
Does it self-host? That is, could we have a fully client-side Go-in-the-browser?
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by Leszek 12y ago
Minor correction: conventional 3d displays provide stereopsis AND vergence, but without accommodation (and the corresponding focal blur). Hence why there is a vergence-accommodation conflict, because one is provided without the other, while
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by Leszek 12y ago
The 70s was ten years. 2014 is one year. Is it so unexpected for there to have been 10 times as many good games (or movies) in the 70s as in 2014?
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by Leszek 12y ago
The Dalai Lama, Gandhi and Mother Teresa you say? Penn and Teller would be the counter example to your potential counter-evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6voAW_Go5Y
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by Leszek 12y ago
> All finite initial configurations tested eventually converge to the same repetitive pattern, suggesting that the "highway" is an attractor of Langton's ant, but no one has been able to prove that this is true for all suc
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by Leszek 12y ago
Haar* cascades (specifically, Viola-Jones, which is what I assume you are talking about) are hardly state-of-the-art, they're over 13 years old now. * Also, Haar is a surname, not an abbreviation, you don't write it in all-caps
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by Leszek 12y ago
Isn't that the point though? That the search results show different possible interpretations of the text entry, and this is one of the possible ones?
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by Leszek 12y ago
Lampshaded in one of the episodes where O'Neill asks what "kree" actually means, and the reply is that it's something along the lines of "yoo-hoo".
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by Leszek 12y ago
I've been working on something similar for teaching graphics programming to our undergrads. Uses esprima to parse the input JS and add some runtime error checking with line numbers, including unidentified variables and timeouts for loo
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by Leszek 13y ago
And here's another win, took me a fair few hours though. http://imgur.com/9FckZVX
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by Leszek 13y ago
You can add one more to that list, I'm currently waiting for my RMA replacement to arrive. I do love having it when it works, but I'm a bit disappointed with the hardware issues. Reminds me of the old RRoD issue on the old Xbox360
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by Leszek 13y ago
It's better than return foo ? true : false; or even return foo == true ? true : false;
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by Leszek 13y ago
Now being "authored 4 years ago"
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by Leszek 13y ago
Or just drop the idea of "day"/"year" being a fixed, constant integer number of seconds.
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by Leszek 13y ago
> and that's part of why it is the pinnacle of academic achievement. Absolutely not. A doctorate is an apprenticeship in research, and the thesis produced is your "final test" as an apprentice. It's supposed to be th
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by Leszek 13y ago
I'm not sure what problems the author had with Cygwin that he didn't with Git's msys environment. I'm not denying that there were problems, I'm just curious what they were.
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by Leszek 13y ago
I'm going to call Poe's law on this one, because I'm genuinely not sure if this is a parody post or not.
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by Leszek 13y ago
How does this compare to the decorator module? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator
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by Leszek 13y ago
Presumably 6.0221413 * 10^23 * 1000 / 12 = 5.0184511 * 10^25
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by Leszek 13y ago
They're exact in the sense that they give the same value as if you had calculated the value of the analytic derivative. This is different from numerical differentiation, which approximates the derivative with finite differences.
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by Leszek 13y ago
> based on customer feedback Sounds about right to me. Why is this "spin"?
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by Leszek 13y ago
AFAIK, Photoshop uses essentially the same method -- half the authors on the original Patchmatch paper were from Adobe.
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by Leszek 13y ago
It's almost certainly intentionally ambiguous, and therein lies the joke.

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