maximilian

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by maximilian 17y ago
I would say that you speak of 'cleverness' instead of laziness. If I look at a problem that looks like a ton of tedious work, it is eminently useful to spend time just thinking about the solution. If anything, its an appreciation for elegan
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by maximilian 17y ago
More details on the javascript vm: http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/carakan From my somewhat limited knowledge of such, it seems like they took a fairly similar route as the Webkit guys. (Register based, etc..)
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by maximilian 17y ago
Exactly. The immune system, like the muscles and the brain, can grow stronger with use... This makes sense, but is it true? Without statistically significant evidence to back this up, we don't know for sure if it is true. It could also m
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by maximilian 17y ago
I guess the problem is reasonable to me is not necessarily reasonable to someone else. It still blows my mine that someone could make so much money begging. I haven't read the above posted article, but it still seems unlikely to me that be
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by maximilian 17y ago
In order to make $90,000 begging, you would have to get $250 every day of the year. This seems highly unlikely. I'd say most beggars make more like $20 a day, but I'm just doing armchair science here.
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by maximilian 17y ago
He said "executable". Is the executable flag set on readme.txt?
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by maximilian 17y ago
It didn't have any math textbooks I would want. Also in Safari the search field "ISBN..etc" text didn't go away upon clicking.
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by maximilian 17y ago
This is exactly why one should always be mindful of what one says here about software one uses. Many of those software developers are lurking here in the shadows and might take offense - Or at least be curious and want to help or correct a
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by maximilian 17y ago
I know that until, say, 3 years ago, I wouldn't know a thing about parsers, and if they boss wanted a scripting language, I would have parsed the whole thing by hand in C. It would have been a total nightmare to maintain (and develop) and w
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by maximilian 17y ago
I've got the following matlab code: eta1=0.7; omega=10; f = @(t) eta1*sin(omega*t) + (1-eta1)*sin(2*omega*t) I can call f(2) and return a scaler value. I could just make a function in a separate document, but then I would
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by maximilian 17y ago
Except that the schools that have record enrollment are probably all state schools that rely heavily on state funds to operate. My school is such, and budget has been cut drastically, such that they will be lowering enrollment in the future
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by maximilian 17y ago
They're incredible. They basically sold their company to eBay twice. First the name and the servers and then again for the technology. Pretty awesome.
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by maximilian 17y ago
Which makes the requirement that it gets a GPS lock before it works that much more ridiculous. GPS gets terrible reception in any indoor situation. It can have trouble with just trees.
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by maximilian 17y ago
Given the amount of money to be made doing this stuff, it was inevitable that other good smart phones would arise. Props to google for realizing that its the OS that really makes a phone, not the hardware. Obviously, the Droid is a nice pi
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by maximilian 17y ago
I'm in the process of writing my thesis and one of my advisors asked me: "Who are you writing this for?". I had a few ideas, but I answered, "For him and our collaborators." "Wrong! - You should be writing for the graduate student who will
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by maximilian 17y ago
which paragraph represents what?
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by maximilian 17y ago
I use it in class extensively to show students plots of polynomials, and occasionally to find a few roots. Its a great way to get students into using computers to graph functions, etc. I've also used it to integrate some tough hyperbolic si
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by maximilian 17y ago
I think because Jupiter and the Earth are way brighter than the stars are. The dynamic range of the picture doesn't show the stars... According to one of the sites linked in the comments, they already had to brighten the moon some to make
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by maximilian 17y ago
Yay. my sorry grad student salary can't justify $20, but i'll throw down $10... I've been wanting to try it our for a while.
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by maximilian 17y ago
So cheap that I convinced a lot of my friends to sponsor my new home; this way I wouldn’t have to pay for any of the furniture. Sounds like I'd want to be his friend. I live pretty cheap, but I'm not afraid to buy my friend a beer or a b
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by maximilian 17y ago
I tried to wake up to watch the impact live, but 4:20am was very early and the alarm got switch off very soon after it went off... Its a pretty zany idea though, i gotta hand it to NASA for a cool experiment.
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by maximilian 17y ago
They pay as much as anybody going to a private school. Many state schools charge just as much for an out of stater. If you are gonna spend that much money, you might as well go to a great school if you can.
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by maximilian 17y ago
The MacRuby guys are doing this as well. (AOT) They are also using LLVM incidentally. What I'm wondering about is how they do AOT for dynamic code. Do they have every possible path for a data type compiled? This would seem silly..maybe LLVM
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by maximilian 17y ago
I got e.coli after spending spring break in Mexico with my dad. I didn't get it as bad as this girl, but it was awful nonetheless. I was horribly sick for 4 days with diarrhea and vomiting and couldn't really eat or drink much. What is sc
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by maximilian 17y ago
Some readers on Jalopnik's site said that the cars actually weigh very similarly. So "lighter" is only perceived.
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by maximilian 17y ago
I was also quite inspired by his post. I am teaching precalculus as a grad student and I am absolutely going to try to incorporate the cumulative hw sets. For me, this is his most important discovery. I might try assigning the next section
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by maximilian 17y ago
And the guys who wrote the Squirrelfish VM for safari weren't all famous VM researchers. From what I read, they just picked all the low hanging fruit in classic VM design and got great performance - better than IE8 for sure. Their code is
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by maximilian 17y ago
Could you post a link to Parsec. Quick googling didn't come up with any compiler tools. Thanks!
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by maximilian 17y ago
I've been fooling around with this idea for a good year now. I've never found the time, but I think about doing something like it all the time. If I come across free time after my thesis, I hope to write a simple typed matlab-like clone th
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by maximilian 17y ago
When dealing with service personnel one can morph a simple "no." into a "No, thank you." Polite but similarly final.

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