mjcohen

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by mjcohen 11y ago
Not only are the ideas impressive, but the computations are also.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
I would pay to see Motl and Doron Zeilberger in a cage match about discrete math: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Besides, in 100 years we will be fortunate if anyone will be alive, let alone doing theoretical physics.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Interesting fact about the sigmoid function: If you scale it so its slope at the origin is the same as the cumulative error function, it differs from that function by at most 0.017.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
You can't fool me - this is an attempt to bring back APL!
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by mjcohen 11y ago
How much for these levels: Vibranium Adamantium Unobtanium
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Unfortunately, currently the only amendment which seems to have any teeth is the second. After all, you shouldn't bring teeth to a gunfight.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
It's not a waste of time if it gets you where you want/need to go.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
It depends on whether you want to show relative or absolute change. Huff's warning about scales not starting at zero occurs when the chart has a caption such as "A massive five percent growth!" In my experience, not starting
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by mjcohen 11y ago
A question and a comment: 1. How much of the lift is caused just by the air pushing up? 2. The turbulence caused by a square back is (I think) why rear windows should be closed in a pickup - prevents the exhaust from coming in.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
That's one of the reasons I love awk (actually, gawk): this is the only data structure it has.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
How did you validate your program?
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by mjcohen 11y ago
And once you hit my age, your have have stopped accommodating for quite a while. I also wear glasses with two quite different prescriptions. I wonder how many of the VR systems will work for me.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
I just use a $40 Remington electric, and buy $20 blades when the current one wears out. Not that great a shave, but it's easy and I can shave my nose and ears with no problem.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Sure would be nice to have either the complete thing in one file or the "Next" button at the end of each section instead of only at the beginning.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
For Southern California, and the Los Angeles area in particular, this is a very good blog to read: http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/ Their current (May 29) entry is titled "Don’t hold your breath for Millennials to p
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Only if you live in Denver.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
I fondly remember TechTV. Then G4 took it over and absolutely destroyed it. A tragedy (at least to me).
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Aw. Amanda Palmer is fun. I liked her cover of "Making Whoopee."
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Looks like a predecessor of "The Unix-haters'andbook": http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf Actually, I learned a lot about Unix when I read this in the 1980's.
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Or, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."
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by mjcohen 11y ago
Red wedding.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Like in "Snow Crash".
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by mjcohen 12y ago
If the proof is simple, give it.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Is "canidate" a misspelling of "candidate"?
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by mjcohen 12y ago
So which of you are correct?
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by mjcohen 12y ago
It could be named "EmacsOS". Then, someone could develop a laptop that only runs EmacsOS. I suggest calling it an "EmacsBook".
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Easier to search than the videos.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
I could tell you, but I would have to kill me.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Harder to make it earthquake-resistant.

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