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by kwantam 16y ago
> and the languages you write them in Unless that language is Haskell, of course :) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory
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by kwantam 16y ago
It seems that some or all of this post is based on a seriously flawed notion of what lends prestige to a job. For example, > The electrician who comes and wires your house has a less > prestigious job than the electrical
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by kwantam 16y ago
I was glad to see the food miles metric[1] tangentially mentioned in this post (when she talked about importing exotic foods to keep herself healthy). This is a notion that, in my opinion, doesn't get enough attention: it doesn't matter how
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by kwantam 16y ago
In fairness, the other part of the killer reputation has to do with apparent design instabilities as a result of the V-tail on the x35 models. Both these and the x36 models really are beautiful planes. Another airplane with the killer epith
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by kwantam 16y ago
I bought one for my girlfriend's two-year-old to watch Sesame Street. It works for that, and if she decides to throw it on the ground (which she's still learning not to do), hey, at least it wasn't an expensive cell phone or something. Most
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by kwantam 16y ago
You make a good point intuitively, but I still don't quite buy your argument. The circle is continuously differentiable along its circumference. The fractal is not---it's still got a large number of discontinuities (offhand, it looks like t
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by kwantam 16y ago
Even if you think it's fair game for students to have access to the test bank, at the point where they started to take the test and realized "uh-oh, I've seen every one of these questions before," they should have gone forward and admitted
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by kwantam 16y ago
In the limit you do not have a circle. If we write down area and perimeter error e_A and e_P as a function of n, in the limit of infinite n e_A is proportional to 1/n. However, e_P is independent of n, since the perimeter does not change
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by kwantam 16y ago
> It's articles like this that perpetuate the acceptance of unpaid overtime. No it's not. Unpaid overtime is perpetrated by the incentive structure at companies where it's in the culture. The same bosses that are so happily ge
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by kwantam 16y ago
Absolutely. If you're looking to donate now, Wyden's campaing website is http://www.standtallforamerica.com/ (I'm not affiliated with the Wyden campaign in any way.)
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by kwantam 16y ago
> I found out the old teacher had given the same test for a number > of years and every Greek / Club on campus had copies. Oops. I think this is true of a lot of frats and clubs: there's the "course bible" that you co
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by kwantam 16y ago
"Slippery slope," in a sense, only really applies when the slope is steep enough that its slipperiness matters. In particular, there is an obvious difference between "I've discussed problems like this with someone who knows the material" an
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by kwantam 16y ago
No, there's a more intrinsic difference. Resistor: V = I R Memristor: V = I M(q) The memristance is itself a function of the integral of I, and that function is arbitrary.
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by kwantam 16y ago
It'll be huge assuming that they're reliable, can be manufactured cheaply, and perform well. DRAM is a very advanced technology. It'll be a while before memristor-based RAMs enjoy the benefits of that kind of background. In the end, like I
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by kwantam 16y ago
Basically any LTI differential equation can be modeled as a network of Rs, Ls, and Cs. You can get fancier if you want by adding nonlinear elements. In other words, anything you can describe as a differential equation has an analogous circu
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by kwantam 16y ago
I've never been convinced that the memristor is worthwhile to consider as a "fundamental passive device" as everyone seems to want to claim. There are a few reasons for this: (1) It's underspecified compared to the fundamental passive circu
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by kwantam 16y ago
VVVVVV Ahh, ayup, you're correct. Brainfart.
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by kwantam 16y ago
Green is absolutely treated specially in YCbCr; you just have to understand how YCbCr relates to RGB. ITU-R BT.601 defines YCbCr as follows: Y ~= 0.30 R + 0.59 G + 0.11 B Cb ~= -0.17 R - 0.33 G + 0.5 B Cr ~= 0.5 R - 0.42 G - 0
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by kwantam 16y ago
Ahh, is this a translation thing? I was reading through this page gritting my teeth at the appalling misuse of commas---and I am certainly not one to skimp on commas.
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by kwantam 16y ago
Cope's earlier work with EMI is also pretty awesome; the idea of using as a training set a composer's body of work in order to produce new music in that same style is very cool. http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm
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by kwantam 16y ago
Irony certainly can be random or a signifier of implied fate in the case of literary/dramatic irony. Verbal irony, which is closely related to but not identical to sarcasm (though there is quite a lot of debate on exactly the relationship a
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by kwantam 16y ago
The PDF reader in 7.0.517.41 for Linux has trouble rendering math in some documents, e.g., http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0204033 It might just be a font thing.
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by kwantam 16y ago
> Lines = deadweight loss, and deadweight loss = room for improvement. Do you mean deadweight loss for the grocery store, or for the customer? Relatedly, does the grocery store care about deadweight loss for the customer? If
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by kwantam 16y ago
Maxima rocks for symbolic math. I prefer it to Mathematica, which is saying a lot. In contrast, octave always feels like "almost-Matlab" and I still prefer the latter. Also see wxMaxima, which will (among many other things) produce LaTeX fo
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by kwantam 16y ago
Part of me is holding out hope that this is a troll. > There are even calculus textbooks showing how to calculate -- I > am not making this up and in fact I taught from such a book -- the > rate at which the fluid
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by kwantam 16y ago
It's a deterministic finite automaton (state machine) for dividing by seven. In effect, it's the graph expansion of a regular expression. http://blog.vkistudios.com/index.cfm/2008/12/30/Regular-Expr...
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by kwantam 16y ago
My transition to "real" Haskell programming happened with some parallel signal processing stuff, but my best example toy is my two-player tetris clone, triHs: http://web.jfet.org/~kwantam/TriHs.tar.gz Note the "bastard" key, where you can
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The Vdara Death Ray, or Unintended Consequences(lvrj.com)
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by kwantam 16y ago
Large airplanes usually have electrically heated leading edge surfaces in addition to pitot tube and stall indicator heat. As you point out, something like that would work well in this application. There is something of a drawback, though
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by kwantam 16y ago
Over/under on the time until someone decides to sue Adobe to force them to sell the energy to PG&E and buy it back at an increased rate the same way homeowners are forced to with their PV panels?

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