madcaptenor

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   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   Serious question - why else do I want to go to Phoenix? Say enough for a long weekend. I keep hearing good things about this museum but Phoenix is too far away for me to go just for this.
2. 242.▲
   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   You could replace C occurring by itself (or where CK represents the /k/ sound) with either S or K and then replace CH with C.
3. 243.▲
   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   I would also buy those.
4. 244.▲
   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   For 2, 3, 22, 23, read the second part: https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-23rd-of-the-month/ . (short version: people used to sometimes write 2d, 3d, 22d, 23d.). This also explains why 12 and 13 don't show
5. 245.▲
   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   I thought "oh, this is going to be expensive" (old book? about art?) but there's a $12 Dover paperback.
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   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   Their visualizations of elliptic curves over finite fields are the ones that consist of a bunch of discrete points. They then roll those up using some mapping from a complex torus to R^3. There was a time in my life when I might have unde
7. 247.▲
   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   It's definitely on the order of sqrt(N). But it's a bit smaller than sqrt(N) typically: (1) H is asymptotically normally distributed with mean N/2 and variance N/4 (central limit theorem) (2) So H - T = H - (N - H) = 2H
8. 248.▲
   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   I live in Atlanta and have not been up there. I have kids. I should probably fix that. (That is, I should "fix that" by going up to the Smokies with them, not by getting rid of the kids!)
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   by madcaptenor 1y ago

   I would assume "platypus" pluralizes like "octopus" - that is, "platypi" is popular but incorrect, while "platypodes" is etymologically correct but insufferable.
10. 250.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    That requires you to prove the binomial theorem first, though, and won't that need induction?
11. 251.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    Probably. And with the lowercase "u" the headline just means "some university in Ohio", not the university called "Ohio University". But I figured some people might be wondering which university in Ohio it me
12. 252.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    It's Ohio State.
13. 253.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    I miss the Omnimax they had at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. They closed it during the pandemic and it never reopened.
14. 254.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen Wordle implemented in what you call “hard level”. But there’s no reason it couldn’t be.
15. 255.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    As a native Philadelphian, I immediately see why you need a good resolution here - at 0.1 degrees resolution you very well could have assigned my birthplace to New Jersey. If I'm not mistaken New York and Philadelphia are the largest
16. 256.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    You had me wondering if wind-playing itself has unfortunate cognitive effects. (This seems just barely plausible, since you spend a lot of time breathing funny if you play a wind instrument.)
17. 257.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    That said, this is basically what the Hebrew calendar does (although of course they use a much earlier epoch)
18. 258.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    Since 3 dB is so nearly 2.0, you can derive that series by taking small powers of two, say from 2^(-4) to 2^5 or 2^6: 0.0625, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, (64) and then multiplying everything by factors of 10 to get it between 0 an
19. 259.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    I was skimming and read this as "on a chicken". Not sure how that would work.
20. 260.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    This is wrong, π² = g, the acceleration due to gravity.
21. 261.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    You barely even have to remember 9: 0.95 since you can get it by interpolation between 8 and 10.
22. 262.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    For log(3) I prefer the "musical" approximation 2^19 ~ 3^12. This is a "musical" fact because it translates into 2^(7/12) ~ 3/2 - that is, seven semitones make a perfect fifth). Together with log(2) ~ 3/
23. 263.▲
    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    Looks like the magic word is "digitize", and yes, it's a thing - see e. g. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kittyshi/pianoroll/pianoroll.htm...
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    Google Maps does this in the US. But I've heard that it has different features in different places.
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    Any idea how they generate these? It seems like you could unroll a piano roll, scan it optically, and generate MIDI from it, but I'm having trouble searching because "MIDI" + "piano roll" leads only to piano rolls
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    I can't even see how someone could get to a format with the year in the middle. In uses where you don't need to specify the year you might use either MD or DM, and when adding the year you could put Y either on the front or back
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    As a Penn grad student I definitely looked at the piles of stuff the undergrads threw out hoping I could get something good from them. (I don't recall if I ever did.)
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    One good thing about online dictionaries is that they can be arbitrarily embiggened to include words like this, since they're not limited by the physical constraints of bookbinding.
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    In college once I took a course that was being offered for the first time. They gave a midterm survey (usually we only had final surveys). I filled it out honestly, saying that my partner for our group projects was not pulling his weight.
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    by madcaptenor 1y ago

    He's #4 among humans, behind David Woodard, Michael Jackson, and Jesus.