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by gshubert17 13y ago
Right. Hydrocarbons, then. Natural gas and petroleum have similar geologic and economic characteristics.
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by gshubert17 13y ago
Not just that. Most corn production heavily depends on oil-based inputs, such as fertilizer, fuel for machinery, and natural gas for drying and storage. Corn from the same county will become much more expensive, even without transportation
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by gshubert17 13y ago
I thought the second insight was the teaching/learning dichotomy: I had an intense insight a few weeks ago when a friend told me that as one gets older, the line between learning and teaching blurs. This is consistent with how I think
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by gshubert17 13y ago
> linux is completely described by its source code. I would say that linux is defined by the way its source code [in C] runs on machines [of various kinds]. It's also helpful to know some history, especially of unix, for context. An
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by gshubert17 13y ago
Does that make pypy platinum? time pypy -c "print sum(xrange(1000000001))" is 2.0 seconds on my Mac; a C program with 8-byte ints (long or long long) takes 2.6 seconds.
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by gshubert17 13y ago
You're right. I have a 32-bit build, since I get: * (log most-positive-fixnum 2) 29.0 Thanks.
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by gshubert17 13y ago
Your number appears to be a factor of 10 smaller than the "one billion plus one" of the original. I get similar times on my Mac; about 3.2 seconds for 10 8 and 31.4 seconds for 10 9. Both are about 5 times faster than Python 2.7
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by gshubert17 13y ago
SBCL: Commenter postfuturist said that this code: (time (let ((sum 0)) (loop :for x :from 1 :to 1000000000 :do (incf sum x)) sum)) took about 3 seconds from his REPL with SBCL, with about 8.5 billion CPU cycles and 0 bytes consed. Does anyo
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by gshubert17 13y ago
Judging by the latest revelations made by Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency has Microsoft firmly in its pocket. According to an explosive Guardian report on Thursday, the NSA was granted access to Microsoft's new free email
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by gshubert17 13y ago
The documentation mentions that "OSX install has become a challenge. With the Enthought transition to Canopy we cannot figure out clean install directions for 3rd party packages and therefore can no longer recommend using EPD for Space
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by gshubert17 13y ago
I added a couple of lines to fix errors I ran into with Python 2.7.3: Add about line 89, before assignment to some_var, a, b = 3, 4 Added a try-except around line 186, to guard the KeyError, try: filled_dict["
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by gshubert17 13y ago
The difference between a 0.5 amp minimum current on the 12 volt supply and the 0.05 amp minimum current on the CPU might be enough to power a CPU fan (such as the Precision 690 from Dell, which is about 0.45 amp at 12V). I'm not familiar wi
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by gshubert17 14y ago
This article was written in 2010 as part of a series. Also, for a single-page view, http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...
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by gshubert17 14y ago
Or, from a bash command line, $ python -c "print input('> ')" > 2+3*5 17
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by gshubert17 14y ago
I read it as an example of natural selection. The natives who attune themselves to a particular risk, are much less like to die, and more likely to pass along, this particular idea.
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by gshubert17 14y ago
I've seen the phrase in a Jack London story. That would be 40 degrees below freezing. For Celsius that would be -40C since freezing is 0C. For Fahrenheit that would be -8F (32 - 40).
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by gshubert17 14y ago
>Maybe I missed it, but did the Shockingly Simple Math completely neglect that wages and thus lifestyle typically increase over a career? Perhaps. On the other hand, if one assumes that real (inflation-adjusted) wages are stable, then a
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by gshubert17 14y ago
In developing the skills of reading, initially one may need to read stuff twice. With skill and practice, one reading may accomplish several kinds of goals at once.
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by gshubert17 14y ago
Help me with CPA; it's not certified public accountants. Is it cost per action?
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by gshubert17 14y ago
One of the key features of Adler's methods, which he emphasizes in _A Guidebook to Learning_, is to "read and discuss". Those who have access to discussion with other learners or mentors, whether in a work or school environment, I think hav
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by gshubert17 14y ago
If 1 cup of coffee contains 150 milligrams of caffeine ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+much+caffeine+in+1+... ) that would take 3.3 million liters (not 6000).
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by gshubert17 14y ago
One nautical mile is very nearly the length of one minute of arc at the earth's surface.
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by gshubert17 14y ago
Seth Lloyd, in "Programming the Universe", seems to argue the universe is a computer or is like a computer. The universe computes "its own dynamical evolution". "As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds."
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by gshubert17 14y ago
After I get an unwanted robocall, I want to dial "*RC" for "RoboCall". I get a credit on my next phone bill for 25 cents. The phone company charges the originator 50 cents. Now the phone company has an incentive to track all robocalls. And
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by gshubert17 14y ago
In the Python example, wouldn't you need to make sure the x values from mapping are sorted, since dictionaries are unordered? Change, for x in mapping to for x in sorted(mapping)
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by gshubert17 15y ago
Vonnegut published a copy of the originally private letter to the people of Drake, in his autobiography "Palm Sunday", pages 4-6.