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by arketyp 12y ago
I image you would become used to reading the interpolated states eventually. That would be a pretty nice way to write fractions.
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by arketyp 12y ago
I came here to mention the first title. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall LSD not only reached the computer scientists early on, it more or less was introduced via such academic circles. The other day I reflected on the f
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by arketyp 12y ago
>And btw, has anyone else felt that the Halting Problem and Godel's theorem are two sides of the same coin? Is there any formal connection between them? I feel like they are not "independent" (in the sense that Euclid&#x27
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by arketyp 12y ago
Before Wikipedia there was a Swedish collaborative encyclopedia called susning.nu [1]. It eventually shut down due to problems with vandalism and in the meantime sv.wikipedia had grown larger. I suspect a lot of articles were migrated to wi
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by arketyp 12y ago
Never seen "Coke" in that classic font before. Is it new or perhaps particular to the US?
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by arketyp 13y ago
This is a good point. Your grandparent's original distinction was that 1+1=2, just as 2^1=2, follows from a definition while 0^0=1 is immediately defined. However, the parent's still valid point was clearly that even the plus op
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by arketyp 13y ago
I wonder how this generalizes to higher dimensions.
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by arketyp 13y ago
As it happens I was just researching it myself (it was briefly mentioned in a lecture on scientific visualization). I found this (have not read yet), what seems like a thorough and serious treatment of the subject. http://www.han
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by arketyp 13y ago
You might be interested in what is called opponent process theory of color vision.
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by arketyp 14y ago
So would washing it in fresh water just after dropping it in the sea before it dried possibly have saved it? It doesn't seem like it could damage it more anyway. Perhaps also it was an insurance issue...
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by arketyp 14y ago
I always thought the plus sign had to do with two entities meeting or being placed on top each other, like a road crossing or a pair of sticks, and that the minus sign was just a spinn-off of that sign and also made sense in the same way th
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by arketyp 14y ago
I distinctly remember reassuring myself when I created my blog one year ago that there is no way Twitter would leave out the option to download your data if they decided to kill off Posterous. It would just be way too bad PR.
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by arketyp 14y ago
I've never seen a GUI age so well as the Winamp classic skin. Even old Apple OSes can look hideous today, but with Winamp I still find myself switching back to the classic mode.
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by arketyp 14y ago
Deluxe Paint was the first painting software I used as a kid. In retrospect I've always regarded it as especially "hackerish", and though I TBH can't really tell the fidelity to the original in much detail, trying out grafx2 now only confir
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by arketyp 14y ago
It's funny that he concludes the post in celebration. I personally find it a scary suggestion that our core perception and being is decided by idiosyncrasies of language and culture.
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by arketyp 15y ago
>Visual quality is an "easy" problem. We know exactly how it ought to work (ray tracing has been photorealistic for some time now), it's just a matter of tweaking it to run fast enough on the hardware we have. And we're really close to
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by arketyp 15y ago
This problem is already (partly) solved by exchange in digital gold currency. Pecunix and e-gold are two such services.
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by arketyp 15y ago
Obviously it's a joke/puzzle, but I still object to calling it a statistics question. It's probability thoery. Stochastics to be safe.
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by arketyp 15y ago
I bought it and then downloaded it with torrent because it went faster that way. I think the server were overly busy, so maybe the correlation you speak of is negative.
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by arketyp 15y ago
Vincent van Gogh is arguably the most famous example of a painter associated with crazy; almost everyone has heard of (the rumour of?) the artist that cut off his own ear. And certainly it is not only the colors that are outlandish, boldly
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by arketyp 15y ago
What about the people who don't know and don't procrastinate? I guess they got God's blessing. I don't understand your point. If it was uncertain what would happen but any outcome was exciting, you wouldn't procrastinate, right? That's
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by arketyp 15y ago
How does cases of workaholism suit into this? That is, specifically, persons focusing too much on their career for big parts of their lives and then later regretting never having spent time with their family, enjoying a slow day etc. Isn't
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by arketyp 16y ago
There were similar renderings of Conway's Game of Life in Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, but by way of 1D-slices through time and grayscaling the second axis. These have the famous class 4 property that Wolfram raves about, leading to th
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by arketyp 16y ago
I wish you could give Wolfram a break and look at him with liberated eyes. I don't think there's anything exceptionally egocentric about this article unless you look for it - in fact I find it quite disturbing that you would want to make th
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by arketyp 16y ago
It's kinda annoying.
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by arketyp 16y ago
"Wolfram did not follow Feynman's advice. Not only did he establish an institute but he also founded the company Wolfram Research, makers of the widely used Mathematica software system. Contrary to Feynman’s expectation Wolfram has been a s
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by arketyp 17y ago
I'm not going to bother questioning it, but that's to me the silliest reason imaginable.
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by arketyp 17y ago
I feel like making somersaults in front of my desk but I usually just end up in unusual sitting positions e.g. with my legs on the wall or one knee in my face as right now. But I don't think I could ever stand standing. That makes me tired
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by arketyp 17y ago
I, for one, am impressed with the graphics seen here. Even if it turns out that the issues such as animation and lightning dynamics are really limiting, the degree of artistic freedom this kind of technology already offers is really excitin
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by arketyp 17y ago
Well, then you don't know English.

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