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by mjn 6y ago
Seems to depend on the PDF viewer (font issues?). The kerning is almost unreadably bad in macOS's PDF viewer (Preview), but looks perfectly fine in Firefox's built-in PDF viewer on the same machine.
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> The last stable release of Cairo was in October 2018 Looking at the release history, as far as I can tell, every release since 2013 was rolled by Bryce Harrington, who at the time was employed with Samsung Open Source Group. Samsung sh
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I recall discussing in school the Federalist Papers, and in general that the authors of those papers had opponents. I believe in particular some essays by Brutus arguing for a bill of rights were emphasized. What wasn't really mentione
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Matlab is still big in engineering as well. Matlab+Simulink in particular seems to have a fairly entrenched niche.
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Some have at least moved incrementally in that direction by referendum. Maine, Missouri, and Oklahoma voters opted in by ballot initiative to ACA's Medicaid expansion, after their respective state governments had decided not to expand
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Dijkstra's paper "Recursive Programming" (1960) is where he lays out his proposal for implementing recursive Algol-60 subroutines with a stack: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings&#x
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Exactly what's considered "outdoor" in that respect depends on the jurisdiction. For example DC's current regulations allow tents to count as outdoor dining as long as they have no more than one side closed [1]. Other pl
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There are also TSP-specific heuristics that work well in practice on a lot of large instances, often finding the optimal solution pretty quickly (but with no guarantees of optimality). The first I believe was the Lin-Kernighan heuristic fro
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The paper is really nicely written: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01409 It's lengthy and full of some quite technical sections, but those are interspersed with sections sketching the high-level intuition and proving
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> the life of an academic is dominated by competition for grant funding This depends heavily on where you are. I personally don't spend an onerous amount of time applying for grants. If you're at what are called "R1"
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How does this explain why, compared to middle-income Germans, middle-income Marylanders have low life satisfaction, feel economically insecure, and die younger?
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Maybe I'm being trolled, but this is a Markov chain non sequitur response I have no way to interpret.
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I'm not sure I'd say the US has consciously made that tradeoff, though maybe you aren't claiming that. If anything it's likely a side-effect, imo. The median at any snapshot in time is materially better off, but also mu
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That's true! This thread I thought was about whether tuition at places like UCs has gone up because of cost increases or state funding decreases though. As far as I can tell from the budgets, it's primarily due to per-student stat
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In some state university systems the inflation-adjusted total funding has actually decreased. For example, the University of California system was budgeted about $2.1 billion in state money in 1990, which is $4.3 billion in 2020 dollars. At
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by mjn 6y ago
I have a name like this, and like it: I'm Mark in English, and Μάρκος/Markos in Greek. My parents are mixed Greek/American, and wanted to choose a name that translated. But it has caused some bureaucratic problems, because pr
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by mjn 6y ago
At least the English alphabet has been covered: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html
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by mjn 6y ago
Thanks! I started collecting the announcements as part of discussions we're having in my department about the fall semester, and thought I might as well stick the list up on my blog.
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by mjn 6y ago
The Claremont McKenna announcement says that they don't think LA County is going to let them hold in-person classes, so they didn't really have a choice. Unless they're misreading hints from officials, seems like Harvey Mudd
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US universities announcing online Fall 2020(kmjn.org)
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by mjn 7y ago
I'm considering it for the course I teach! Although one thing that draws me is it doesn't have too much extraneous detail off the main narrative thread. I currently use parts of the textbook Programming Language Pragmatics [1],
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by mjn 7y ago
In Common Lisp land, there's spinneret, which does something like that: https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret I use it to generate my academic publications list, although I'm not 100% satisfied with the ele
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by mjn 7y ago
Two on AI history: Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think , either the 1979 original edition, or the 2004 2nd ed, which adds a 100-page afterword covering 1979–2004. Nils Nilsson's The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009). T
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I don't believe Colab is real-time live in the way that Google Docs is. I'm using it to teach a class and would love that kind of functionality, but unless I'm missing some option, when I make changes to the notebook, student
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Groundscraper City: The Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul(mascontext.com)
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Even in Python I find the vaguely more functional style of list comprehensions easier to read than explicit loops. I've taught enough classes to know that many students who've had only a CS-101 type class do prefer explicit for
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I mean it's self-promotional yes, but I read this as more of a blog post about advances specifically in his own group. For the Schmidhuberian take on the broader history of deep learning, this other one's the go-to article (though
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by mjn 7y ago
I've gone in a similar direction. Only at smaller conferences can you have any kind of confidence that your reviewers are people with actual expertise in the field. That's pretty useful, not only because it makes it less likely yo
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Having the lowest car-ownership rate in the US probably helps Manhattan's overall numbers. :-) Per-capita square footage (which directly impacts heating/cooling energy usage) is also fairly low by suburban standards, even in the r
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by mjn 7y ago
It's not totally APL-specific terminology, although it's uncommon in other areas of computer science. You can find it (predating APL) in areas like mathematical logic, where a predicate over two terms is sometimes called a &quot

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