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by carstimon 14y ago
Something slightly related: the timetables made by E.J. Marey, shown in the middle of this blog post: http://marlenacompton.com/?p=103 They're also shown in Tufte's "Visual Display of Quantitative Information."
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by carstimon 14y ago
Something similar: If you want to write down a formula for solving a cubic: ax^3+bx^2+cx+d = 0, for give a,b,c,d, you can't avoid using complex numbers. This is true even if you only care about cubics which have real solutions. To clarify
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by carstimon 14y ago
Under the if/else: I kind of prefer the first code sample, then the second, then the third. The first emphasizes to the reader the structure of the function. With one look you can see the function is choosing from three options. For examp
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by carstimon 14y ago
This is kind of true, but not quite right. If there's a flaw serious enough to be too hard to patch, it's likely that some problem would have come up later. That is, some serious contradiction would be reached, or something really weird w
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by carstimon 14y ago
I program almost completely for myself. I recently moved up a scale from only being able to write small programs (solving simple mathematical problems) to larger ones. I think my block from being able to write larger programs was that I wo
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by carstimon 14y ago
or else your library contains an infinite number of books, which is simply absurd because there would, for instance, be a book that contained all of the finite books inside it, in alphabetical order. Careful, that doesn't follow. The lib