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by andy_wrote 12y ago
I'm a child of the CD era, and on my (CD) copy of this album, the pulsar pattern fills most of the cover. In college, I came across an LP copy, and I was struck by the difference: the pulsar pattern occupies a much smaller space in the
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
I have fond childhood memories of the "Mathematica" exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, where there was a large physical copy of one of these machines. Also, "quincunx" is a great word.
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
Worth noting that Hopkins rereads his scripts because he is acting on them, in both the specific and general sense of "act," and not necessarily for the casual reader's pleasure. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a p
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
I agree with that distinction. Also, making food for many people is much more rewarding than making food for just yourself. (When I do the latter, it's lots of work for 5-10 minutes of payoff, and I often find myself wishing I'd o
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
I'm also a coder who has recently started attacking his kitchen incompetency! (but on the order of months ago, not years ago...) I prefer baking because I can rigorously follow directions in the worst case and get something acceptable,
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
I think most people would agree that writing things on paper first is a total necessity if you are writing mathematical code (I mean, are you going to do the equations in your head and type them out?), and I think the benefits to paper incr
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
This reminded me of a fun and amusing sci-fi short story called "The Tryouts," by Barry Longyear, about an alien culture oriented around storytelling by firelight, which was their means of spreading news and information. The news
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by andy_wrote 12y ago
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) covers these functions and is GPLed: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL's design doc ( https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/design/gsl-design.html