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by culebron21 5y ago
But naturally, at first you assume the numbers are natural. :)
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by culebron21 5y ago
I actually got to hate math in grade 3 with such problems. Nobody explained to me that I could just write down an equasion, at least my father (physicist) could not. And all I saw in the magazines were cryptic answers like "it's p
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by culebron21 5y ago
Probably, I'm too proficient in English to see the problem. * guess #1: they read it as a Pythagoras triangle, with sides 10, 6 and 8, hence they answered 6 * 8 / 2 = 24. * guess #2: they could not make sense of "altitude dro
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by culebron21 5y ago
My answer to #1 is less than 8 kopecks, and Masha has less than one. There's a problem: nowadays kopecks are the minimal unit of currency. Either it means you have to think of the old Imperial money units (polushka, 1/4 of kopeck)
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by culebron21 5y ago
The images in the article can be divided in two groups: * ideas from new urbanism to greenify the urban core with its dense streets, to make them a nicer place, which is a good idea. * the old modernist ideas of detached houses, now in &quo
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by culebron21 5y ago
I think our brain would have evolved some sort of post-processing algorithm to deblur the signals from blue cones, if blue was so necessary. But blue comes mostly as diffused light from the sky. And the effect is especially pronounced in du
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by culebron21 5y ago
As mentioned in other threads, it also has to do with low percentage of blue cones in the eyes.
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by culebron21 5y ago
Interesting demo, but I think the retina resolution has more effect on this. Also note that blue neurons are also much less dense, and our eye blue channel has natively much lower resolution. This is why in old Windows installers, blue colo
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by culebron21 5y ago
I would have been surprised and intrigued if the title read "Why we use R instead of Python". I've used Excel myself as a student in 2003-05, when R or Python weren't known. And now I sometimes teach Economics students,
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by culebron21 5y ago
I tried developing a syntax like this: a table is set as context, then you do some transformations in pipeline fashion. That seems promising, but trying to rewrite some of my reallife examples, I found out that pipelines are much shorter th
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by culebron21 5y ago
I was sketching a syntax for python to work with pandas, and avoid extra annoying code, and surprisingly some of the elements and approaches I see in your code are similar. My syntax for subsetting was df{\*, -column1} df{column1: n
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by culebron21 5y ago
This is exactly what happened in the late XIX century, when first mass media appeared, and did about the same: they'd cherry-pick evidence to support their prior opinions and painted the oposite side as villains. Dreyfus affair was the
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by culebron21 5y ago
Repin, Surikov and other painters of end of XIX century drew many paintings with such historic plots, and we had them as illustrations in the History of Russia schoolbook. Only when I came to the Russian Museum (paintings gallery), did I re
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by culebron21 5y ago
Used it for 1 year and it only got my spinal aches worse. The issue is that you tend to lean sideways in it, and leaning straight back doesn't help. Switched to Ikea's Bleckberget.
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by culebron21 5y ago
I have spinal issues, and chairs were a serious issue. I tried and rejected Ikea Markus and several hi-techy beefy chairs, because sitting in a soft & comfortable chair always ended in spinal aches. I figured out I felt better in chairs
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by culebron21 5y ago
From Russia this article seems saddening, and actually a reverse of what we have experienced in the past decade. Alcohol consumption dropped from historical top 18 L of pure spirit/year/person, to 9, which is lower than during Gor