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by dalke 10y ago
The paper is about species , not subspecies . The paper says: > Thus, population genetic, phylogenetic, and network analyses of nuclear sequences demonstrate that the giraffe is genetically well structured into four distinct species. T
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by dalke 10y ago
They are equivalent. That doesn't mean that all tools will use XML semantics to test for equivalence. A testing tool might require that the output is byte-for-byte equivalent to a known good output. Python's pseudorandomly determi
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by dalke 10y ago
DanBC suggests that BBC's News Beat service use of link-baity headlines is because they target a youth audience. Perhaps the alternative is to look for a version meant for stodgy and jaded adults? :) http://www.bbc.com/
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by dalke 10y ago
Suppose you want to make something like an XML generator helper function: def start(tag_, **kwargs): write("<" + escape(tag_)) if kwargs: for k, v in kwargs.item(): write(" " +
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by dalke 10y ago
There's been a few links to this topic posted over the last day. The one with the most comments, and a link to the text in English from Aftonposten, is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457004 .
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by dalke 10y ago
What is a continent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent points out that different countries have different models. "France and its former colonies, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Latin America, and Greece&q
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by dalke 10y ago
A better title would be "How to contribute to Warewolf."
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by dalke 10y ago
I have a different observation. This VM is meant to match Python semantics, including support for keyword arguments with defaults, lexical scope, and exceptions. Neither the original McCarthy Lisp description which qwertyuiop924 praised, no
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by dalke 10y ago
While I don't see what it is that you, who has looked into how other languages are implemented, finds impressive. It looks like a bog-standard stack VM to me. Why do you think it would be harder than this?
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I had never noticed that the term "ideal gas law" is Platonic in nature, and how that brings in language like "deviations", unlike the ways we describe the other states of matter. I agree that the model of an ideal gases
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by dalke 10y ago
I'm a bit put off by your combination of praise and dismissiveness when I think neither are warranted. This is a pretty standard stack-based virtual machine. It is not particularly elegant, nor is the underlying language designed to be
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by dalke 10y ago
I think it's okay to not invite someone notable in the creation or development of a topic because of their views on other topics. Consider a PCR conference without inviting Mullis, or transistors without inviting Shockley? (Back when h
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by dalke 10y ago
Both Czech and English are Indo-European. The stronger test would be to compare with more diverse languages. I do not know the answer. I did find from http://wals.info/chapter/87 that in Ojibwa, "words expressing
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by dalke 10y ago
No, he doesn't. I believe pw has misread the document. "The real issue had to do with PDAs." They weren't allowed because they could emit signals that could be intercepted. This was also why cell phones weren't allo
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by dalke 10y ago
That's a good point, thank you.
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by dalke 10y ago
I specifically said that intelligence was a factor. The hypothetical was meant to show that your analysis was insufficiently sensitive, not to posit that the hypothetical was actually the case. You have an odd habit of pointing to seconda
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by dalke 10y ago
I didn't see a Flash video, but perhaps I missed it? There's an MP4 at http://images.apple.com/media/us/airpods/2016/94916564_4bfa_... .
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by dalke 10y ago
No one thinks intelligence is irrelevant to getting a PhD. The question is, how do you know that getting a PhD relies "heavily on intelligence"? How do you know that intelligence has a strong or weak correlation? Or that there isn
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I wrote "While intelligence certainly has a role, they rely much more heavily on training". Everything you wrote just now agrees with my statement. Originally you wrote "All five rely heavily on intelligence". It is th
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by dalke 10y ago
Features #1-3 do not "rely heavily on intelligence". While intelligence certainly has a role, they rely much more heavily on training. All three also depend on knowing what is interesting , which is more a form of curiosity guide
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by dalke 10y ago
How many "pioneering mathematicians" are not one-percenters? If the answer is "99%", then there's no bias in favor of those who do well on the SAT. The article doesn't give that information. A similar question
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by dalke 10y ago
NO. There are two limitations you did not take into account. The first is the rocket equation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation . You need a thrust with a very high exhaust velocity - much high
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by dalke 10y ago
Republics can also be democracies. "Democracy" includes the many types of representative democracies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy . Most of the people I've talked to who make t
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by dalke 10y ago
Voyager 1 is going about 17 km/s. It's the probe with the fastest speed away from the sun. Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away. That trip would take about 77,000 years, were Voyager 1 pointed the right direction.
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by dalke 10y ago
This was a new term to me. A "second screen" is when you have a device with its own display, and which also controls another screen. I imagine it's for cases like if your phone were also to display content on a 40" scree
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by dalke 10y ago
Read http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... .
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by dalke 10y ago
But why only the common unix commands? I can't think of a level of caution where filtering 'echo' is appropriate but, filtering a more obscure command, perhaps 'dc', is not. An excess of caution would be to put th
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by dalke 10y ago
It should not be capitalized.
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by dalke 10y ago
What's worse is the article even says pot smoking is not a major issue, with (emphasis mine): "... the federal government is having a hard time hiring cybersecurity experts, largely because many hackers can find more lucrative de
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by dalke 10y ago
The bacteria has had far more than 30 years to develop resistance, and it could do it in stages. We don't know how many other bacteria over the gigayears managed to poison itself.

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