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by mci 2y ago
> If you all pardon an off topic digression... IMHO, Euclid's definition of a straight line in today's terms would be "a line that has the same direction on its entire length". His definition of a plane angle would be
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by mci 2y ago
If your metric is the length of the land that the map boundary cuts, then the best centre lies somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Proven here: [1] [1] https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/slicing-earth-c..
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by mci 3y ago
How about a third unit, baud [1]? It looks no worse than hertz to me: In telecommunication and electronics, baud (/bɔːd/; symbol: Bd) is a common unit of measurement of symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine th
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Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2023(learn.stanford.edu)
97 points by mci 3y ago|5 comments
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by mci 3y ago
I invented a game that uses tiles in the shape of a regular hexagon plus a rhombus. IMHO, you can tile the plane aperiodically with them. See the first picture in [1]. [1] https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2023/10/
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by mci 3y ago
My two candidates are pepsi and amen. Coke is known as coca-cola where I live.
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Byzantium 1200(byzantium1200.com)
1 points by mci 3y ago|0 comments
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by mci 4y ago
Also overlaps with mongoose.{c,h} (GPL; not the MongoDB Mongoose) and its fork CivetWeb (MIT license). https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb
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by mci 4y ago
> what word was used for the color orange I once answered this question for Polish [0]: 1. Find the Latin word for the color orange: "luteus". 2. Find Polish words corresponding to the Latin word in a scanned Latin-Polish dicti
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by mci 5y ago
See also David Hanson's book C Interfaces and Implementations [ http://drh.github.io/cii/toc.html ].
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by mci 5y ago
IMHO, attempts to show literate programming on screen are doomed to meet with mediocre success. DEK invented literate programming with printed books in mind. I dare say that the only successful literate programs are books printed on paper.
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SymSpell: 1M times faster spelling correction(github.com)
203 points by mci 5y ago|32 comments
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by mci 5y ago
I like it! Here is a gotcha my students stumble on. I have not noticed it while skimming your book: ^ and $ do not have special priorities. To match alternatives, write ^(abc|def)$, not ^abc|def$
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by mci 6y ago
Here is a belated reply to your comment about the python-cf library.[0] My top-level comment[1] does not present its use cases well. While you can compute the billionth digit of π with continued fractions, other methods suit this task bet
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by mci 6y ago
This discussion would really go better if you followed the links. See lines 92–96 of cf.py: By the # Gauss-Kuzmin theorem [5, 6], a partial quotient in the # continued fraction expansion of almost every number exceeds #
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by mci 6y ago
Thanks, "dynamic" is a good term. "Very large" would not describe it well: for non-contrived irrational numbers, the chance of an improper rounding to a rational is much smaller than the chance of a meteorite strike in y
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by mci 6y ago
See slides 43–60 and 72. A node emits ∞ as the partial quotient after 100 resultless iterations. The threshold is configurable. In particular, see lines 184–187 of cf.py: # Idealistically inclined folks, who would prefer their # c
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by mci 6y ago
If you do not care about speed, you can get not arbitrary-precision (static number of significant digits, set upfront) but exact (dynamic number of significant digits, as large as you wish) results. Under the hood, your expressions will
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by mci 6y ago
And here is an emoji from 1913 [0], accompanied with a footnote: "The author felt the need to enrich the Polish spelling with a new symbol, which he dares name wink . This symbol, whose absence was till now sorely felt, particularly
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by mci 6y ago
> After learning simple piece development and basic checkmating techniques, it's tactics, tactics, tactics. Fair enough, tactics is fun, pretty, and rewarding. I like it, too, and do not advocate avoiding it. But if any of their gam
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by mci 6y ago
> and if they were we would no longer be in disagreement. I tried to explain my (perhaps unorthodox) understanding of strategy and tactics in the last paragraph of my grandparent comment. EDIT: Now I can see that I was framed into the ta
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by mci 6y ago
> if you leave your pieces vulnerable to tactics that your opponent can find and you can't, then it's all for nought. In my book, {avoiding hanging pieces, placing your pieces so that the opponent cannot pin them} ⊂ strategy, b
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by mci 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. Since you are the second person who understands the opening theory as a subset of strategy (an alien notion to me), I added a clarification to my post.
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by mci 6y ago
Thank you for the reply. I do not advocate "remembering all the 15 length opening sequence" either. > A Primer of Chess and Nimzowitsch's My System are targeted for IM/GM. This is an interesting assertion. How about y
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by mci 6y ago
> This site teaches chess in words. > It assumes you know only how the pieces move and builds step-by-step from there. Do not get me wrong: TFA is a fine and useful book for an intermediate player but the above claims are overselling
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by mci 6y ago
> What population size and density do you need to keep a language alive? IMHO, the answer depends more on the lifestyle than on the number of speakers. As long as everyone lives in a homogenous community along with their grandparents and
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by mci 6y ago
Meh. Three words every pirate should know: yandex dot ru.
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by mci 6y ago
Oh, and another example from Ukraine, this time in 2020: threatened by the International Monetary Fund with being denied loans in the midst of the pandemic, the Ukrainian parliament allowed the sale of the largest asset they are left with,
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by mci 6y ago
Let me copy a previous comment of mine [0]. One quasi-actionable lesson of history the governments can try to remember is: do not sacrifice your strategic goals for a short-term gain, or "avoid hotfixes in production". Example 1:
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by mci 6y ago
Here is to the company Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1 that ran in Poland from 2014 to 2019 [0]. [0] https://prod.ceidg.gov.pl/CEIDG/ceidg.public.ui/SearchDetail... (check the r

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