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by Wilduck 15y ago
Well, Skinner's work may be old, but Behaviorism as a discipline certainly hasn't died out. Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism#21st-century_behavi...
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Hipmunk [ http://www.hipmunk.com/ ]. This site is by far the best translation of information into a visual format that I've seen. Where most flight search sites present you with hard to interpret text, hipmunk gives you visual clues. For e
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by Wilduck 15y ago
> As a language enthusiast I envy Ruby for the blocks. As a Python programmer I never felt the need for them. I think one of the reason why Python isn't hurt by the lack of blocks is the difference in namespacing rules. Since defining a
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> The best teachers don't teach much really. Rather they inspire. The worst teachers may teach a lot, but they make you despise the material. Going to my 11th grade Biology class every day, I used to joke with a couple friends "Do you t
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Even with a traveling salesman problem you can get "near-optimal" results with an algorithm that has a reasonable run time. It's still important to note that you have such a problem though, as the fact that you're settling for "near optimal
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This website has been a great tool for someone like me who only does occasional work on the web. I would love if all documentation looked this good.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Actually, as noted in a sibling comment, you can open two excel documents. However, as far as I can tell, you absolutely cannot open two powerpoint documents side by side.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
My favorite way to learn about something like metaclasses in python is to go to stackoverflow and search for '[python] metaclasses' then order by votes. Open up a few of the links that look interesting, and you'll get to see some good uses.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
The big one, as I understand it, is inserting nice looking tables for ANOVA results. Both Stata and SAS can output their results tables to LaTeX.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I agree that the error messages are dreadful, but I've found a pretty simple pedagogical approach to make them less terrifying for a new learner. The key is that you reinforce a habit of frequently hitting the "typeset" button that way, whe
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I've taught around 20 non-technical people LaTeX. I would say that these are all good tips. But really, the only thing a non-technical person needs to learn LaTeX is to have someone sit down with them and teach them 1 on 1. I have a fairly
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I really admire Peter Norvig and have learned a lot simply by reading (and re-reading) two of his essays: How to Write a Spelling Corrector[1] and Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle[2]. What fascinates me about these essays is that in one, he is a
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by Wilduck 15y ago
If you're willing to do some work with survey weighting, there is an awesome amount of well organized data about US presidential elections that is freely available in the American National Election Survey (ANES)[1]. I would love to see some
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by Wilduck 15y ago
> This suggests an assumption that the state should grant a monopoly. That wasn't my intention. I wanted to emphasize that it already has. I think the state should work to ensure the creation of public goods and I think that they should
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by Wilduck 15y ago
> knowledge is a non-rivalrous non-excludable good You sound like you know what you're talking about here. What you're claiming is that digital media is a public good. I can live with that definition. It's certainly non-rival, and in pr
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I think this is miss-representing Buffett's position here. First off, he explicitly states that the riskiness of an asset should not be measured by its volatility: > Assets can fluctuate greatly in price and not be risky as long as they
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It's working, and it looks pretty nice. A couple comments though. There are a number of things that would make textbook swapping pretty difficult. I'd be interested in how you plan to address these issues. 1) Often times a given textbook wi
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by Wilduck 15y ago
http://lendsit.com redirects me to http://signup.lendsit.com/ but doesn't load a page. Should I be seeing something there?
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I think you're right that jit_merge_point affects performance. My point was that this isn't an optimization of the JIT compilation, so much as it is a requirement for a JIT compiler to be able to operate. The compiler has to know what defin
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I don't think that can_enter_jit and jit_merge_point are hints for optimization. I'm not particularly familiar with JIT compilation, or RPython, but it looks like RPython provides other methods for doing trace optimization. For example, the
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> RPython makes you insert these hints to the trace compiler (can_enter_jit, jit_merge_point) about when to start/stop running a trace, does this buy you anything? If I had to guess, I'd suspect that this is actually a net loss because
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I agree, I learned a lot from this article. I also really appreciated the linked tutorials on writing a Brain Fuck interpreter and JIT compiler in PyPy/RPython: Part 1 [1] and Part [2]. The simplicity of the example and the good writing cle
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Here's my advice. Instead of trying to learn all of these tips at once, bookmark the page (or leave it open), and try to use one of the tips at a time for at least a week. If you focus on one at a time, you'll get a much better feel for whe
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> I also think that by the time vendors are implementing other vendors prefixes, they should just be pushing to drop the prefix, that is the point I think tantek advocates this approach, but in a different order. First make sure you can
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I found the analogy to quirks mode really interesting, especially the lines: plinss: You said this is a short-terms solution. Quirks mode was supposed to be a short-term solution. tantek: No it wasn't. plinss: Yes it was. plin
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by Wilduck 15y ago
wundergound.com?
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An interesting article that links back to this one: http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/are-you-one-of-the-10... The claim is that even ignoring overflow, only 10% of programmers can correctly implement a binary search. When I tried it
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While the coalition governments that arise in a proportional representation setting have their own sets of problems, a fairly significant number of studies have shown that PR systems increase both voter turnout and voter satisfaction. I oft
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Which actually isn't damning of Python at all. Python has optimized for things other than speed. I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't choose a 1984 BASIC implementation (on modern hardware) over Python for any of your projects. You can have a
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Wow, I'm glad you linked to that article, otherwise I would have thought the complexity was O(M^(2N)) instead of O((M^2)N). Although, the fact that I almost mistook that complexity means I should probably spend some time learning about how

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