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by cicero 9y ago
We know that humans go to great lengths to teach our ways of communication to animals, but we are aware of no such initiative from animals to teach humans their means communication. Maybe we are the only species that is interested in inter-
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by cicero 9y ago
Is there a remote desktop to a virtual PC capability with this?
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by cicero 9y ago
I'm praying for you, Scott.
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by cicero 9y ago
That's a beautiful story. I've been fascinated by Gödel since I read Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter back in the 1980s. I'm not a mathematician, so I can't plumb the depths of his work, but I gain a little mo
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by cicero 9y ago
I played with TECO on Unix for a while many years ago as well as a similar character editor (I think it was called SPEED) on the Data General MV8000 Eagle at Texas A&M. Editing with those editors is like solving a puzzle. It was fun, bu
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by cicero 9y ago
What's wrong with teaching them the trivially concrete? It's just the beginning of a journey that can progress as they get older.
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by cicero 9y ago
I don't know if the author thinks they are barbarians, but he does say their beliefs "are almost certainly incorrect." I will give him a few objectivity points for including the word "almost," but he follows the typ
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by cicero 9y ago
A fun speculative fiction book involving Tarot cards is Last Call by Tim Powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Call_(novel)
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by cicero 9y ago
Asimov's poor dialog, writing style, and character development were recognized from the beginning. His writings stood out because of the ideas they contained, which admittedly are not as impressive 50 years later because they are not n
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by cicero 9y ago
I've made a few for kids at my school on our 3D printer. There are models on Thingiverse.
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by cicero 9y ago
I agree with you, and my wife and I will have been married 27 years in June. I will add that not only is part of my motivation for staying married religious (I'm Catholic), but I also depend on God's help to keep us together. Marr
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by cicero 9y ago
Remember, the double l's make parallel lines.
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by cicero 10y ago
Thank you, I'm also a chess imbecile and was mystified.
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by cicero 10y ago
I think it is because of our weakening culture. Children used to get their identity from their family and community, which trained you in a path you could follow into adulthood. Now, at least in American culture, there are way too many opti
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by cicero 10y ago
> it's not very common for people to change sides after their initial indoctrination. I was initially repulsed when I saw examples of Lisp code. After I had been in the static, Algol-like world for many years (Pascal, C, Ada, C++) I
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by cicero 10y ago
Indeed, Microsoft wanted to use a modified Windows-centric version of Java called J++, but Sun wouldn't let them, so they created C#.
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by cicero 10y ago
Inches are not proprietary; they are in the public domain.
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by cicero 10y ago
I think he meant "iconic".
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by cicero 10y ago
The big thing is that PDF is page oriented and ePub is flow oriented. An ePub book can be reformatted for different page and font sizes. A PDF book is difficult to read if the screen is not large enough.
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by cicero 10y ago
It's a space hoodie.
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by cicero 10y ago
If you are talking about order of operations, all of the sixth graders that I teach know how to evaluate that expression. While it's true that I had to teach them * means multiply and / means divide, they can quickly pick that up.
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by cicero 10y ago
Your English notation is not really an S-expression. I would say it is similar in that the operation comes first. Even though people understand such notation for simple expressions, most people are not used to doing advanced (beyond element
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by cicero 10y ago
I certainly agree that many people today hold to Christian ethics while rejecting the supernatural basis for it, not realizing that their worldview doesn't support their ethics.
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by cicero 10y ago
I am not a Go user, but I've been following it from the beginning. What I've observed is that since one of its design principles is simplicity, it left out features that many people think are essential for a modern programming lan
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by cicero 10y ago
Christianity (at least Catholicism) has an animal ethic that is not man-made, but comes from divine revelation. Genesis says that man is given the responsibility to care for creation, and while since the time of the flood we have permission
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by cicero 10y ago
That depends on your philosophical assumptions.
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by cicero 10y ago
Until children are taught S-expressions in elementary school math, infix math notation will always be more familiar to the general population, and there will always be a learning barrier that must be overcome to gain similar skill with S-ex
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by cicero 10y ago
Have you been reading Seveneves?
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by cicero 10y ago
Yes you are: s-expressions, i.e. code and data are represented the same way, which makes it easier for programs to manipulate code. A language could be created that combines the type system of Haskell with the syntax of Lisp. You would trad
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by cicero 10y ago
I read the first half of the Quran several years ago; I need to give it another try and read the whole thing someday soon.

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