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by mjcohen 1y ago
(This has nothing to do with the post, but the title is so similar that I had to include it. Written a few days after seeing "Inception". Inception Rejection (Why the dreams-within-dreams in the movie "Inception" could n
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by mjcohen 1y ago
I have used Audio Hijack for recording a meeting (M1 13" MBP). How does this compare?
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by mjcohen 1y ago
For very philosophical writings about this, read "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon. Written in the 1930's, these describe on a very expansive scale the history of, respectively, humanity and t
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by mjcohen 1y ago
Deepseek seems to be one of the few LLMs that run on a iPod Touch because of the older version of ios.
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by mjcohen 1y ago
Clifton Fadiman edited two collections of mathematical fiction "Fantasia Mathematica" and "The Mathematical Magpie". I have them and enjoyed both.
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by mjcohen 1y ago
I found this an enjoyable read. I also have Wilkinson, both text and Algol book, which I used many years ago to write a fortran eigenvalue/vector routine. Worked very nicely. Done in VAX fortran and showed me that having subscript chec
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by mjcohen 1y ago
10 million
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by mjcohen 1y ago
I have the first two Animusic reels (vhs and dvd) and thought they were great. Unfortunately, the creator scammed people by taking money for Animusic 3 and then not making anything. Most of them are on youtube.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
I read UHH over 30 years ago and learned a lot about UNIX. Very useful.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Only 7k? They are slipping.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Then you might enjoy "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapeldon. It is available on Amazon.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
My eyes are sensitive to glare, so in my last job I took to wearing the visor I wore outside also inside. Got some weird looks but it was a lot easier on my eyes.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
When you get old enough, your eyes stop focussing.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Fortran has arbitrary-based indexing forever (as does Ada). The default is 1 but it can be specified as anything. I don't see why this capability is so rare.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
If 0 is not an allowable value for b is necessary but not generally sufficient.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Knuth vol 2 has a nice discussion of floating point operations and shows how to reason about them. Wilkinson's classic "Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes" (1966) also has a good discussion.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Chess is not stateless. Three repetitions of same position is a draw.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
What is Vanity?
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Wow - that is fiendish!
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Look into a disease called faceblindness (there is a fancy name I forget).
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by mjcohen 2y ago
How abut the following proofs that sqrt{2} is irrational. 1. If 2=a^2/b^2 with a and b relatively prime then a^2=2b^2 so a is even, and, letting a=2c, b is also even a contradiction. 2. Use the lemma that a positive real r is rational
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Anything that helps consumers is on that chopping block, and CFPB is at the head of the list.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Interesting to see which optimizations are never used.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
If you (or your client) are ok with your data going off premises.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
For the Amiga, one of my favorite games was "Hole-in-one Miniature Golf."
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Bookman Old Style (my favorite font) seems to do this.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Looks ok to me - can't see anything wrong.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Join the Fibonacci Quarterly - I find it quite enjoyable.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Its not regulated if a government does it.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
A while ago, I was using an emulator for a 32-bit processor I was writing code for. To detect access of non-initialized storage, instead of having an out-of-band bit for each word, it stored hex deadbeef in each word before program start an

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