mjcohen

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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   Going the other way, if you want to enter the LaTeX variant called MathJax locally (PC and Mac), which is used on math.stackexchange.com (among other other places), try http://www.inkcode.net/qute . I find this very handy fo
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   I had a similar problem with a gawk (yes, gawk!) program I was writing. I had to accumulate 10,000,000 32-character strings to produce a 320,000,000 (three hundred and twenty million!) character string. It was taking forever. I eventually r
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   It's disgusting to you, not to many others (like myself). I even like the low-sodium version (having low standards can be very useful).
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   My value to some groups is that I make them feel normal by comparison.
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   No warning with Version 27.0.1453.110
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   Or, even older $ibftc $execute ibjob
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   Not me.
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   I have written gawk apps of over 10,000 lines. One was a text formatter, another was a simulator. I also wrote a gawk program that generated a string over 300,000,000 characters long (yes - three hundred million). No problems (well, a few,
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   by mjcohen 13y ago

   I find it interesting that some things are visible if the trajectories are turned off that I would never see with them turned on. For example, if the last example (10 on an octagram) is viewed with trajectories off, I see two rotating inter
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    by mjcohen 13y ago

    Except for the current supreme court.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Piet Hein wrote a grook about this. It essentially says "don't look at what the coin flip says; look at how you feel about the result of the flip."
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Test driven development. As opposed to TTD, which is test to destruction. Or DDT, which is development driven testing. Or DMD, which is don't mean diddly.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Interesting how TDD is so close to TTD.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    We are not amused.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Now if Fox will leave cable and the net as well, that would be nice.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Use a drawing of the universal media, punched magnetic tape.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    the modern haiku is no longer restricted five seven five haa!
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    I want to read "Hannibal and Me" by agent Starling.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Another old saying: "If growing up were fun, I would have done it a long time ago."
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Algorithms + Data Structures -> Programs.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Octave is currently available on Android - search the Play store. A very impressive effort.
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    How about $300 for the home version?
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    by mjcohen 14y ago

    Oh, come on! Considering the approximately $2,000 price for standard commercial versions of Mathematica, MatLab, and Maple, the $295 for the home version of Mathematica is quite reasonable. If you want to freeload, get Sage (which is quite
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    Take a look at Urban Survival ( http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm ) and the peoplenomics and halfpasthuman sites referred to there. George Ure says some weird things, but I find the discussions and predictions there fascinating. All I can s
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    As long as the airines/airports have no incentive to improve things, nothing will be done. Real competition is needed, but I don't see where it might come from - maybe people deciding to stop traveling by plane.
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    Polya and Szego's "Problems and Theorems in Analysis I & II" are classics. If you can work through any part, you will have learned a lot.
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    I vote for not crap - I enjoyed reading this.
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    There are no jobs and population is increasing. The multinats have shipped and are shipping as many jobs as possible overseas. I am deeply pessimistic about America's future in the next 20 years or so. I do not see anything good happening,
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    How vulnerable are the cables to physical attack (i.e., drag something heavy and sharp along the ocean floor)?
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    by mjcohen 16y ago

    My current source of choice for finding music I like is Time-Warner cable's music channels. I usually have something like "Singers and Swing", "Jazz", "Blues", or "Classical" playing. When I hear something I really like, I look it up in Goo