ggchappell

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by ggchappell 11y ago
Interesting point. So you're saying that "girls" is not really being used as a noun phrase, but rather as an abbreviated clause. Thus we use the conjunction "than", while we would use the preposition "from&quot
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by ggchappell 11y ago
I find this article to be very troubling. Because there is something the article does not mention: that bullying often happens because the victim cannot escape. Bullying is an ineffective strategy when the victim can get away and/or
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by ggchappell 11y ago
I don't worry much about inserting wacky storage devices, as I run Linux, and I don't have any kind of auto-run enabled. But this would still work on my machine, right? (I mean that the key combo would be entered; it might not act
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by ggchappell 11y ago
This is interesting and worthwhile, but I do wonder about some of the questions. For example, the core-mantle-crust structure of the Earth is fundamental. Everyone ought to know about that. But whether the core is the hottest part? This str
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Yes, rather like the checkout lines at the local grocery store. Perhaps we should change the last line of the poem to "And that has made everything the same."
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> On a large screen browser plain HTML is barely readable. It isn't? One of us is missing something here.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
We have that in our CS program. We call it "Senior Capstone". I'm sure others have it, too.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Very nice!
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Can anyone explain the part about "ignorance"? > McLuhan cites the parable as a productive use of ignorance and indolence, .... I can understand indolence . This is a pejorative term, but it basically means the desire to avoid
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Yes, here I am tossing around the word, and, to be honest, I cannot say exactly what it means. I suspect that a species would be counted as native Hawaiian if it was found on the island chain before the coming of humans.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> Humans naturally seek reasons why they are right, but to understand the universe, you must seek reasons why you are wrong. Fantastic! Is that original?
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Just a wee bit off-topic, but: The situation with the native species of Hawaii is actually much worse than most people are aware -- even people who live in Hawaii. I read somewhere[1] that, if you walk around a typical coastal town in Hawai
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Comments on web forums often make it seem as if this phenomenon is universal. So, I thought I would point out that where I live (Fairbanks, Alaska), we have a healthy, vibrant public library that lots of people go to for books.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Yes, indeed. But, alas, this was 20 years ago, and the messages in question are long gone. At the time I was not thinking of humor value for posterity; I was just annoyed.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Yes, that was eventually the big tip-off as to what had happened. I would get messages like, "Hi, Fred! Glad to see you're settled in at BigU. Who's this 'ggchappell' guy?" (My name isn't "Fred",
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by ggchappell 11y ago
This is interesting stuff. I recall that at one time Google seemed to be heading in somewhat similar directions with Google Sets (now sadly gone -- I miss it). I know that the author is looking squarely at use cases along the lines of a rec
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Okay, time for my story: About two decades ago, while going through new-employee orientation at a university, I sent some e-mail from a computer lab. As part of this, I entered my e-mail address as the reply-to address. At that moment, ther
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> If you don't need the laziness (in Python 3 only), you probably shouldn't use them .... And if you do need the laziness, then you can use generator comprehensions.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Indeed. But there is also an easy test that can be applied to people that talk about "toxins": see if they can name a toxin. And both the article and the original paper[1] discuss beta-amyloid. In any case, it appears that the bla
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Good point.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
A worthy post.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market. It certainly is. But I wonder how much their strategy can really serve as a model for others. On the one han
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by ggchappell 11y ago
I don't think there's any problem with citing an official Census Bureau report. Certainly they are the definitive source for statistics on the U.S. population. And I imagine the numbers in the report give a correct overall impress
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Long commutes are of course a problem. However, I am not sure the analysis method used in this article is really the way to look at this issue. The fact that lots of people spend 15 minutes sitting on their rear is not a serious problem, de
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> The coolest piece of mathematical software I’ve come across in the last few years is Chebfun, http://www.chebfun.org Oooh, nifty! I've never heard of this. Wonderful idea. I'm thinking this really needs to be po
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Sounds good. In fact, I think we are trying to solve them simultaneously.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
This looks like it would make for a very nice course -- a good middle ground between the hardcore practical course ("let's learn C") and the hardcore theoretical course ("let's do denotational semantics with Scheme&
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Dare I suggest that the "gear" menu, so ubiquitous on Google pages these days, suffers much the same problems as the "hamburger"?
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by ggchappell 11y ago
How about we try to solve them simultaneously?
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> But Usenet had threads, .... Yes, using the "References:" and/or "In-Reply-To:" headers. Later clients tended to do this, I think. > ... to get the benefits. Yes, and the drawbacks: in-depth discussions invo

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