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by jsyedidia 16y ago
I wrote some Perl code that improved the look of those buttons (based on Trevor Blackwell's engine) at Viaweb back in 1997. I distinctly remember Paul, Trevor and others gathered around my screen to admire the new buttons. So nobody critici
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
The correct spelling is "losing," not "loosing."
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
You said you were interested in methodological ideas, so I'm going to add another comment. Based on the head-to-head rankings of MIT versus other top schools, it looks like MIT should have an Elo rating on your scale somewhere around 1800,
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
It still seems to me like something is very strange about your MIT ranking; there is probably a bug of some sort. Your own head-to-head MIT vs. Other College pages seem to give results that are inconsistent with your MIT rating of 1688. Ass
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Your rankings of colleges by revealed student preferences seem seriously out of line, especially for MIT and Caltech, compared to the academic paper by Avery et.al. that you cite on your web-site. They give a ranking of 1. Harvard 2. Caltec
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Every environment is broken in some way or other. Try to make it work for you to do what you want as well as you can. I personally am inspired by all the work that Charles Babbage tried to do and managed to do more than a century ago withou
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Yes. Saddam Hussein unleashed the world's largest ever oil spill during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
The Stanford GraphBase, written by Donald Knuth.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Depends on your level and interests, but "How to Reassess your Chess," by Jeremy Silman is an excellent book if you're beyond the beginner level.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
36...Qd8+ only looks better to a computer. The idea is 37. f6 hxg4 38.Nxg4 gxf6 threatening ...Rh7+ or 37. Kg3 Qd6+ 38. Kh4 Qh6! But Anand's 36...g5+ is much easier for a human to play. It's easier to see White's reasonable responses and ho
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Yes, the simplest solution is a 0.1 % tax on short-term trades. It's actually pretty strange that practically everything else one buys is taxed by the government but not shares. No surprise that we get all this useless and dangerous high fr
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
It seems to me that the author may be interested in the license Donald Knuth used for the Stanford GraphBase, which looks like this: The Stanford GraphBase is copyright 1993 by Stanford University These files may be freely copied and distri
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Anand's victory was one of the best games in world championship history, at least in my opinion. Also, in my opinion, the best sites for chess news are chessvibes.com and "The Week in Chess" at www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic.html.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
"Dynamic programming" may not be the best name, but it's well-established, and there's always a cost to proposing another name: fragmentation of understanding. It's better that everybody continue to use the same non-optimal name than having
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
You might need to click on "text-only version"
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
You may know it exists; that doesn't mean "we" know it exists. In particular, I didn't know it exists, and am grateful to the person who submitted the link.
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
If you run top while you're there you can see Safari and WebKitPlugin (I'm on Mac OS 10.6) start churning away in the %CPU column, even while you're doing nothing but reading a page.
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
It's a funny comment, but not really true. The ctangle program would just strip the comments (both C/C++ comments and TeX commentary) out of a .w file and re-arrange the C/C++ code to the order that the compiler would need to see it. While
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
My guess is that the bias is caused by the black shapes. You can see that each black shape is closer to its bigger "parent" on the left on the next row out than it is to its bigger parent on its right. Also the connection to the parent on t
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
I also want to defend Programming in Lua , which is probably the best single book devoted to a programming language that I've ever read (only K&R comes close). I'm not alone in thinking highly of it--on Amazon, of the 30 reviews, 25 gi
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. --- Donald E Knuth, The TeXbook
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
Yes, the four justices that dissented had arguments too, but I personally think one needs to stretch quite far to find McCain-Feingold constitutional. The text of the decision (including dissents) at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
Everybody seems to argue about this issue without ever referring to the text of the first amendment, which is what the majority of the Supreme Court based its decision on. The first amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an e
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
This video might be relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPvJlPnc6E Its argument is that the U.S. flight control system is obsolete because it is government-run, as opposed to the Canadian system, which is run by a private company co
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
I use literate programming, and Knuth's CWEB in particular, and I find it fits for me perfectly. Honestly, I think the biggest problem is that most programmers have never heard of it or think it's something like JavaDoc. I find it aston
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
Look at the gb_graph module of Knuth's "Stanford GraphBase" (the Stanford GraphBase is available for download at his web-site). His explanation of his graph data structures, written in CWEB, are the clearest documentation of a complex data
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
It doesn't look too hard, if you have an Altera FPGA. Just follow the "Getting Started" link, and it will show you how to download and build the source.
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
I highly recommend the Stanford GraphBase, written by Donald Knuth. It's C code written by Knuth using the literate programming tool CWEB. If you don't know about CWEB, it's not hard to learn how to use, and probably is already installed on
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by jsyedidia 17y ago
This was from a class for students in the UCSD "Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts" major. Presumably this was very on-topic for that class. In any case, it's hilarious!
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Washington Versus Silicon Valley(online.wsj.com)
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