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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Lattice, I never heard of it when I was in school. When I first came across the term about two years ago, I realised I had already worked out the algorithm a few months beforehand.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A friend of mine used to brew beer, a lot of the recipe books were written by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Line I particularly remember a 7.3%ABV stout with strong overtones of "candied orange peel&
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I meant they are somewhat correct in their belief that bullying is a part of our social fabric. I agree with this statement of yours from another comment, but I don't agree with the previous quote that I posted. My reasoning is
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Conservatives (somewhat correctly) consider bullying to be part of how society maintains is social structure. Have you ever been bullied?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
This is the only smart device I can think of: http://www.briantherobot.com/
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Regarding the discussions of American dominance / influence / power: Fortran, LISP, COBOL, PL/I, C, VB, Java.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I suggest you are suffering from the Blub Paradox[0][1][2]. Writing some C will cure that disease, but the treatment has possible side effects, like carpal tunnel syndrome.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
This seems a quiet, peaceful place. #### ...# #######%##%# ##.##%%###........!.# #..<@..............# ##..######....j....... ....# #..........# ##### #######.####
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Software licences for dummies - hell, I'm mostly clueless about this so I had a good look. One point I will make is that as soon as you read the relevant material on this site, you have to go into a dark corner and read the small pr
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I use the term "significand", because the mantissa is logarithmic, the significand isn't.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Did you do any programming at all before 31? No, I didn't. Sorry, I only just noticed my comment had been replied to.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The term "mantissa" is related to common logarithms, why is it used in relation to floats?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Elizabeth Spiegel, the school’s chess teacher, was waiting. At my school in the UK, we didn't have a chess teacher. I'm presuming that not every school in the US has a chess teacher. Coincidentally, Ms Spiegel reminds me of
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> The SR-71 had a turning radius of about 100 mi. at that speed and altitude, so I wasn't even sure what state we were going to land in. I wouldn't have guessed the Blackbird has better handling than the modern Ford GT40.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Good for you. Did you know everything else? Obviously not, after all I did say "I know bugger all Python". I did know about slices.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I think that is because quaternions form a division algebra, but matrices don't (neither do sedenions).
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
That slideshow was particularly annoying, more annoying than most slideshows .... On the other hand it got the message across well, in fact better than most slideshows.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I know bugger all Python, but I know negative indexing.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
There's also octonions and sedenions. I prefer the blanket term onion-algebras.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Here's a BIG laser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Is Linus obese by the way ? Are you referring to his ego?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'm awaiting an harassment case from Mr Sakamoto against the press in the next week or so. Either that or a name change.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumm-Ra His action figure came in standard and special editions. With Lammily they could bring out a special edition "Lammily after a night on the tiles": Stilleto h
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Never liked SSRI's (escitalopram especially), I prefer sex, drugs and systems programming.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Jupiter, yeah right... HN articles are received nearly 35 minutes late.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Yeah, that's a more generic form of what I said. ok, hold on... e^(i*x)= cos(x)+i*sin(x) e^(-i*x)= cos(-x)+i*sin(-x)= cos(x)-i*sin(x) cos(x)= (1/2) * (e^(i*x)+e^(-i*x)) sin(x)= (-i/2) * (e^(i*x)-e^(-i*x)) cos(i*x)
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++. Ok, I think you could throw that at C as well. As a general programming concept it's quite idiomatic. All I know is that fucking up recursion is just as easy as fucki
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> The mechanics of basic calculus are remarkably simple. Interesting comment, calculus in its modern form took around two hundred years to get a firm logical foundation.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Trigonometry was just memorizing equations, not having any real idea why the equations were what they were. The old proofs of those equations are geometric, they are a bit harder to get your head around than learning complex algebra.

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