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by cormullion 8y ago
If you want to run many of the examples in this book, you can (on a Mac) usually create and save a text file (with .ps suffix) and then double-click the file in the Finder. The ps2pdf distiller should convert the contents to PDF and open in
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by cormullion 9y ago
I wonder whether the idea had its origins here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_...
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by cormullion 9y ago
Pink is considered to be a color not in the rainbow. http://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the-phys...
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by cormullion 9y ago
> Then there is the way the Apple Pen is supposed to be charged It's not quite that simple. The Apple Pencil is provided with a Lightning connector adapter, so that you can connect it to a Lightning cable and charge it in the same w
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by cormullion 9y ago
This is the petition started by Matt Parker, YouTube's stand-up math comedy guy ( https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths ). While I wouldn't say it was entirely serious, he suggested that, while existing sig
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by cormullion 9y ago
Probably cos you’re following Doug Bates — he’s quite a well-known Julian...
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by cormullion 9y ago
The example I use to explain it to myself: "The file may be deleted at a later date." The passive disguises the actor. Who is going to do the deletion? You, when you eventually start tidying up, or the system, when it run
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iVim(github.com)
3 points by cormullion 9y ago|0 comments
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by cormullion 9y ago
US-English, I think. British-English headlines are less caps-heavy.
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by cormullion 10y ago
I took another 5 minutes to find this useful add-on for Safari: https://freestyler.ws/style/152684/github-white-header
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by cormullion 10y ago
Looks great, like a visually pleasing version of Prograph. I remember my arms starting to ache after a few days of using the mouse constantly when working with Prograph. So some keyboard shortcuts would be recommended. http://www
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by cormullion 10y ago
Inconsistently used here, but it's the historical present: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_present For some reason, I hear a old-style narration over a documentary film when I hear this tense.
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This is what you have to eat to compete in the Tour De France(cyclingweekly.co.uk)
4 points by cormullion 10y ago|0 comments
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The Triton Indiegogo Campaign Scandal(scampaignscandal.spacecrafted.com)
1 points by cormullion 10y ago|0 comments
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by cormullion 11y ago
Hilarious. See if you can find: - a word from the 10 commandments - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock - a James Bond film - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination
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Secrets of the Millennium Time Trail(millenniumtimetrail.wordpress.com)
8 points by cormullion 11y ago|1 comments
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by cormullion 11y ago
The Berlin Set Theory clock is a similar idea. It still exists, somewhere. http://www.3quarks.com/en/BerlinClock/
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by cormullion 11y ago
Stephen Wolfram has designed (or overseen) the Mathematica Language and all its many APIs for over 25 years, so its consistency is possibly better than other languages. He probably sees the language as being close to human thought -- it&#x2
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by cormullion 11y ago
There's a good book on the subject, "The theory that would not die", which covers the history and sheds some light on the people (Fisher, Laplace, Bayes, Pearson) behind the names. Reviewed: http://www.ams.org&#x2F
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by cormullion 11y ago
I doubt it will happen. Zerothly, zero-based isn't as good as 1-based indexing for mathematics and science. And firstly, nobody want to change it. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558
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by cormullion 11y ago
In 1993, there was an exciting weekend in Cambridge (UK) when there were freely available white-painted bikes all over the city. In a day or so they had all disappeared. http://www.iankitching.me.uk/history/cam/old
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by cormullion 11y ago
This looks fun. Last week I cycled from Pluto to the Sun on the Somerset Space Walk. The scale is something like a million kilometres per pedal revolution. And it took seemingly ages to get from Pluto to Neptune... https://en.m.w
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by cormullion 11y ago
And when you've finished that, you'll be ready for "Type: the Secret History of Letters" by Simon Loxley. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Type-The-Secret-History-Letters/dp/1...
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by cormullion 11y ago
Siri serves 1 billion requests a week, according to Tim Cook. That's about 1000 per second? Could all be novelty attempts, I suppose...
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by cormullion 11y ago
Not just iPlayer - the main BBC website - including news/weather/sport - requires Flash to display all video content on desktops.
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by cormullion 11y ago
I was going to agree with you, but I've just double-checked, and you CAN access video content on the BBC sites on a desktop (MacOS X Safari) by setting your User-Agent to iPad. However, it's important that you've removed Flas
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24 hour analog clocks(24hourtime.info)
3 points by cormullion 11y ago|0 comments
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Albertus and the Prisoner(wemadethis.co.uk)
34 points by cormullion 12y ago|4 comments
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by cormullion 12y ago
Perhaps they could fix the Wikipedia and Wikibooks presence? Has it really been "banned" from Wikipedia?
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by cormullion 12y ago
It does depend on the style of music, but it's easy to notice the clash between piano and violin tuning in, say, a slow movement of a Beethoven or Mozart piano concerto. In particular, it's the sharpness of the major third on the

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