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by graycat 12y ago
Gee, Lander was first a mathematician. His lectures on biology at MIT are on YouTube and are a lot of fun. He's really charging ahead.
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by graycat 12y ago
> interesting It worked for me, in violin, As we know, things should be as simple as possible but not simpler. My approach to learning mathematics is quite different from learning to play violin but also is based mostly in independent st
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by graycat 12y ago
Galamian's book -- loved it! > convex optimization I assume you are minimizing -- maximizing is easily NP-hard. So, get some supporting hyperplanes of the convex epigraph and use linear programming to minimize subject to those hyp
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by graycat 12y ago
My term for OP's agony is mud wrestling . I feel the pain: <rant> YMMV #1 Problem in Computing: Poorly written documentation to explain the system, tool, program, whatever. The OP had this problem. #2 Problem in Computing: S
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by graycat 12y ago
I nominate Eric Lander.
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by graycat 12y ago
Yup. <rant> YMMV Early in the OOP fad phase, the suggestion that OOP had any very close connection with real world objects and the idea described in the OP as anthropomorphism sent me into nearly a rage of indignation -- as if I
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by graycat 12y ago
Right, but somehow such page formatting has become a favorite fad on the Web. So, as usual, I had Firefox put the text on the system clipboard, pulled that text into my favorite editor, used a favorite macro to insert a blank line after eve
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by graycat 12y ago
Best insight into life I ever got. Fromm's book is a classic, highly respected. Sorry you didn't like it. You would do well to think again.
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by graycat 12y ago
Want? Really? We want a solution to the fundamental problem of life, that is, doing something effective about feeling alone. Or, one step deeper, we seek security from the anxiety from our realization that alone we are vulnerable to the ho
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by graycat 12y ago
When I was diagramming sentences, they never let me modify "the entire sentence"! Maybe the reason was that Latin never did that!
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by graycat 12y ago
Problem is, without thinking about the likely meaning, at first glance it's not clear what 'gradually' modifies, that is, it may modify 'wants', that is, her wanting is only gradual and not yet full ; such are
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by graycat 12y ago
I thought of that but regarded 'gradually' as too far, too many words away, from 'get', the word it is modifying.
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by graycat 12y ago
For the stuff inside the split infinitive, it can to tough to know where else to put it. So, what would we want? "Boldly to go where ..." or "To go boldly where ..."? To be really clear that 'boldly' modifies &
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by graycat 12y ago
The excuse I heard was that an infinitive in English is two words but corresponds to a single word in Latin, and, of course, as all good Latin experts know, English grammar should be as much like Latin as possible! So, since can't spl
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by graycat 12y ago
<rant> YMMV: There is little so obscure as undocumented code. An old software joke goes, "When code is written, only the programmer and God understand it. Six months later, only God.". As a result, for continued understand
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by graycat 12y ago
Right. As in the script of Jurassic Park at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/quotes early in the movie we have a discussion saying that the animals can't breed in the wild due to them all being female:
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by graycat 12y ago
Ah, apparently the BBC forgot about the scene in the first movie Jurassic Park !
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by graycat 12y ago
Goober had to have been making good, even crucial, use of his mental abilities or we would not have ours. So, what the heck was Goober doing with his abilities that were crucial? He found the cave, kept out animals that could hurt him, bui
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by graycat 12y ago
We in the US deliberately imported an, call it, identifiable laboring underclass, and we're still paying the price 100+ years later. Now, now that no doubt we have thoroughly learned our lesson, certainly we'd never try or eve
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by graycat 12y ago
Yes, but in my Southern US high school, in chemistry they did teach about the atoms but in history they didn't!
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by graycat 12y ago
Do they really have driverless cars or just cars that run on essentially electronic tracks very carefully determined? If someone moves the location of a traffic light, can a Google car still find the traffic light? Wbat if a bulb in the
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by graycat 12y ago
Well, NK likely does not have the best electric grid. So, maybe the problem was just their electric grid! Or maybe the problem was someone clicking on the wrong icon or push button in some system management software, maybe written in NK?
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by graycat 12y ago
Supposedly CloudFlare has ways to trace and then block a DDoS attack. So, maybe they know the origin of the NK DDoS attack if it was a DDoS.
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by graycat 12y ago
FYI: Apparently NIPS abbreviates Neural Information Processing Systems.
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by graycat 12y ago
Parts of this thread got me all up on my hind legs afraid of fascist Big Brother of 1984 with sound recorders hidden in the walls of my bedroom, keystroke grabbing on my computer, brainwave recorders in stealth drones flying overhead at 10
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by graycat 12y ago
That's why near year 2000 the saying went, "Never be between a VC and the door when the lock up period is over."
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by graycat 12y ago
> Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest An easier reason: They get a lot of eyeballs.
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by graycat 12y ago
Yes, I got a Ph.D. in applied math from a famous research university and for a while, for reasons having to do with my wife, was a prof in a well known MBA program. Yup, I've seen Ph.D. programs destroy a lot of really good people. Pe
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by graycat 12y ago
Of course, all across the US, crossroads, villages, and towns up to the largest cities, millions of US entrepreneurs, often sole proprietors, have to make money enough to pay suppliers, the rent, taxes, insurance, the bookkeeper, the accoun
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by graycat 12y ago
Thanks. Only now did I read via the FAQ that URLs are links except in fields of submissions.

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