cookietime

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   by cookietime 16y ago

   I know a little physics, and understand that the physics of double-pendulums is well studied (the case where it hangs with a stationary base is a standard grad school dynamics problem), but what little intuition I have tells me it can't wor
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   by cookietime 16y ago

   My hunch is that balancing a real inverted double pendulum in that way is not possible (and that the clip is a hoax -- perhaps using servos at the middle joint to hold it relatively straight at the right time). Would love to be proven wrong
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   by cookietime 16y ago

   Sorry, didn't mean to address you personally. Edited my post. Also, will study your Oct. 13 blog post on the matter to learn more about the issues.
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   by cookietime 16y ago

   For anyone who wants to help Python wrt packaging, get behind [Tarek] and his work on distutils2. That's the future of Python packaging (with Guido's blessing) [^1]. More info on python packaging temporarily at http://guide.python-distribu
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   by cookietime 16y ago

   That sounds like a good brief description of an example, but like I said, for people to get that "a ha" moment, it's got to be written up so it can be presented right there in front of them. My current language is already fairly useful
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   by cookietime 16y ago

   Perhaps you could provide an example of a situation where grammars and arbitrary tree transformations are more useful than looping over repeated regular expressions? If you want others to see the utility of these Perl 6 features, they're go