greenlblue

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by greenlblue 16y ago
What the hell dude? Why are you ruining it for other people?
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by greenlblue 16y ago
I think it just depends on the hour.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
My first thought too but then I figured I'll go for broke and try the simplest thing possible.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
It's a neat way to see if people have a modicum of javascript and Ajax knowledge. Good on you Weebly.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
This is something straight out of an xkcd comic where the guy builds a bot to buy random $1 items from a website and he keeps getting things that could put him on an FBI watch list.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
False dichotomy. It's possible to write readable and non-repetitive code. People do it every day without macro magic.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Whatever. I got it sorted out so go bother someone else.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Ok, now we are in agreement because my definition of "stops bouncing" was finitely many bounces.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you. Yes, an infinite series can have a finite sum, no argument there but what I am arguing with is that people are saying the ball stops bouncing after time t = whatever. Everyone is confounding two things here, ai
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by greenlblue 16y ago
This doesn't address the fact you are making a logical fallacy. You can't make a calculation assuming the ball bounces infinitely often and then after the calculation go back and say the ball stops bouncing because it invalidates your origi
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by greenlblue 16y ago
I am familiar with Zeno's paradox and all other things Zeno and infinite series summing to finite things but there is fallacy here that nobody seems to get. Yes the time taken is indeed a geometric series but if the time taken is a geometri
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Ya, and what are the terms in the series representing? Is it air time of each bounce? Your calculation makes it clear that it is. So you are saying you are calculating the air time for infinitely many bounces, the key word here is infini
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Same mistake as everyone else. Geometric series means infinitely many bounces and infinitely many bounces means it never stops bouncing. Everyone is making the same logical fallacy.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
No, you are making the same mistake as some of the other people. You are summing a geometric series so you are saying the ball bounces infinitely often and the time it takes for the ball to bounce infinitely often is blah. But if it bounces
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by greenlblue 16y ago
True but then in what order are you calculating things. In order to have an infinite series for the air time to sum you must assume there are infinitely many jumps so if there are infinitely many jumps then the ball never rolls on the floor
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Ah but it takes infinite amount of time for the ball to stop and start rolling on the floor and infinite amount of time means the ball bounces infinitely often so the ball never stops to bounce and never rolls along the ground. It is easy t
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by greenlblue 16y ago
It's true that the horizontal energy doesn't change and it keeps going to the right but it stays in the air for less and less on each bounce and travels a shorter and shorter distance on each bounce assuming the ball only goes forward when
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by greenlblue 16y ago
So I did some math starting with 100J of potential energy and summed a geometric series to see how long it would stay in the air if we had infinite time to sum the geometric series and it was some finite number. Then I assumed the initial v
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Integration is not a bad thing but facebook connect feels more like a lock-in so I can see why developers are against it.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Indeed and with a little programming knowledge you could even make your own plugins.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Saw the video. Not impressed. All my browser plugins already do that and then some.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Ah yes, capitalism at its best.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
so other activities (non-chronologically) were things like writing operating system components, replacing parts of the java collections framework with probabilistic data structures or building our own red/black trees, designing chips, writ
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Finally. Google is once again doing some good.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Try and get back to us.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
This is awesome. Someone finally figured out a clever use for the camera feedback loop.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
He did you just need to look at the lhs to see how he does it with haskell.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
This is completely meaningless. The final regular expression is a complete black box and I dare people to try to decipher it.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
I'm not favoring dumbing down curricula. I'm favoring honest practices on the part of the administration to not overcrowd their graduate departments simply because they have too many lower division class offerings and somebody has to be a T
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by greenlblue 16y ago
My point is that math professors as a bunch put up with this kind of stuff all the time because more than half of the incoming class is just going to be horribly unprepared for any kind of graduate work. Are the students to blame for being

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