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by ced 17y ago
The average number of choices to be endured is minimized when there are three items per menu. Can anyone provide proof of that? I calculate that for 100 choices convenientely separatable into a balanced tree, then base 2 yields: 7 levels
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by ced 17y ago
Mwell, I'm not really satisfied by your answer. Both "1" and "0" are well-defined expressions; division is also well-defined, but, in order to avoid logical contradictions, we cannot meaningfully define the division of 1 and 0. To me, that
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by ced 17y ago
I've been wondering about the Russell Paradox... S = the set of all sets not members of themselves x = 1 / 0 Isn't the problem for x the same as for S? Not all mathematical expressions are well-defined, and likewise for all "set ex
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by ced 17y ago
How do they compare to those who have?
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by ced 17y ago
I've been teaching a couple of teenagers programming using Python and Pygame, and surprisingly, I found myself yearning for QBasic. Because... - Already installed on the Windows 3.1 machines. - Whitespace isn't significant. It's obvious to
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by ced 17y ago
Have you read PG's Lisp essays from years ago? He argues against your position very well. Conciseness is power.
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by ced 17y ago
Some rather deep and mathematical ideas about programming in there. Does anyone have thoughts on the last paragraph?
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by ced 17y ago
The trick is to use a time accumulator. Each update you add the display deltaTime from your high resolution timer into this accumulator. Then, while there are whole increments of your dt available you run a physics step and subtract the ph
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by ced 17y ago
It makes a lot more sense to publish scientific results on the web than on paper. Hyperlinks, more graphs, more data, less costs, more feedback. Scientists still publish in journals because of inertia and an antiquated incentive structure (
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by ced 18y ago
Surprisingly, India also has an unbalanced ratio, and AFAIK, the root problem is the same: cultural. Sex Ratio: At birth: 1.12 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.098 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.061 male(s)/female http://www.cbsnews.com/sto
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by ced 18y ago
Do you know any language where it's not bulky?
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by ced 18y ago
The decreased birth rate we're experiencing is quite an amazing biological anomaly. People who have many children (say 5) will reproduce much faster than people who don't (1 child). 5^n faster, where n is is the number of generations that h
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by ced 18y ago
Every leader of such a movement by definition must be an extremist, even if it makes them look foolish Why? RMS's movement would benefit most from convincing us , as developers, to contribute to FOSS. I pray that being a foolish-looking
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by ced 18y ago
You just have to be able to make something good enough to convince the next round of investors to back you. That's the problem. I've been working on it for a while already, and it's unlikely that 3 more months would yield a convincing pro
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by ced 18y ago
Really ? So, if I'm doing wildly uncertain research in AI which I hope shall eventually (in 5 years) lead to a Unix killer... Applying before having actual technology to show for it wouldn't be too early?
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by ced 18y ago
Funny how tail recursion pretty much has "cute optimization hack" written all over it. It really doesn't feel at home in a first lecture on programming.
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by ced 18y ago
Why does the 89.4 to 89.5% matters anyway? It will all average out over the 40 or so classes one takes in a typical B.Sc.
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by ced 18y ago
Is there any reason why Beijing is better than other large Chinese cities? I heard it was expensive and polluted. As for teaching English, do you have first-hand experience backing the (very high) 60$/hr figure? And what kind of visa will y
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by ced 18y ago
Well, I haven't heard of any other accommodation that cheap, but you're right, there are options in the same ballpark. Don't forget that prices have gone up substantially since the last 4 years.
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by ced 18y ago
They have a land line at the monastery, though no network. Some people use satellite connections.
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by ced 18y ago
In the plane, I met a woman who'd been there before. The monastery is "not open for business", as one of the monks reminded me. Normally only practitioners can stay. But I also had the goal of teaching science and computers to whoever was i
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by ced 18y ago
I've had some kind of "financial independence" for over a year now living on savings from my grad school time. I'm currently staying in an Indian monastery. They charge me 120$/month for a room and food. It's the most satisfying lifestyle
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by ced 18y ago
Norvig's little experiment shows... Norvig's experiment doesn't show anything at all. Turning bits at random for any string at all , be it DNA or Shakespeare, will increase the amount of "information" towards the maximum, that is, a comp
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by ced 18y ago
Aside: Dawkins's Information Challenge Yikes, I'm wary of contradicting Norvig, but using Lempel-Ziv (or any traditional compression algo) is a terrible idea. By that measure, a string of random bits would have much higher information con
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by ced 18y ago
I'm in a similar position, but I'm in a Tibetan refugee camp. The children and teenagers here already get (limited but sufficient) food and shelter, so it's a good place for potential teaching. Got an email address? Also, it'd be nice of yo
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by ced 18y ago
The fact that C produced faster code, was easier to master, was easier to use in groups, and ran well on less expensive hardware He missed the point of Worse is Better . Given sufficient time and effort, Lisp will eventually be just as
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by ced 18y ago
I realized today that caching breaks one of Lisp's cardinal rules (as quoted from OnLisp): The convention in Lisp seems to be that an invocation owns objects it receives as return values, but not objects passed to it as arguments. How do
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by ced 18y ago
Cooperation only happens when you iterate every time in a one-on-one fashion with the same players over and over again. For example: the relationship with your local grocer, who has a reputation to build. But it is the wrong metaphor for mo
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by ced 18y ago
I don't know if that qualifies as a hack, but I don't see what's admirable about it, nor is it particularly clever. Should we applaud when a businessman finds a loophole in the tax system? Or when he hires a lawyer to "hack" the justice s
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by ced 18y ago
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