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by mreid 17y ago
I've heard this called Gehm's corollary to Clarke's Third Law.
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by mreid 17y ago
> There is nothing disrespectful here. I disagree. The point is not that the course might be mandatory for a business student (it wasn't - the student picked it as an elective), nor that he shouldn't make and execute such a plan if he t
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by mreid 17y ago
My wife is a lecturer and had a related experience with a student. Sometime early in the semester after the course outline had been presented to her students, my wife received an email in which a student put forward his plan on how he was g
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by mreid 17y ago
Your comment about Cadillacs reminded me of the scene from The Wire where Snoop buys a nailgun: "Man says this here the Cadillac of nailguns. He means Lexus but he don't know it." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zavPW3Bus
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by mreid 17y ago
I agree with you that Google has their work cut out for them trying to get into this market, but that doesn't excuse their mistake. If you think it does then I am very curious to hear how you felt when Microsoft leveraged their desktop stre
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by mreid 17y ago
I don't doubt that close friends are an invaluable source of meaning but I think you may have missed the point of Rand's post. I'm pretty sure he is not arguing that there is deep wisdom to be found in 140 characters. Rather, through your i
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by mreid 17y ago
“This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.” -- Winston Churchill
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by mreid 17y ago
I largely agree that it is a silly lawsuit but, to play devil's advocate for a second, there are a few factors that make it slightly less cut and dried. Firstly, Google's phone is the Nexus One while the androids' model in "Bladerunner"/"Do
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Annotatr(annotatr.appspot.com)
1 points by mreid 17y ago|0 comments
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by mreid 17y ago
Yeah. I wish someone else would do that.
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An Internet Bill of Rights(thepunch.com.au)
1 points by mreid 17y ago|0 comments
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by mreid 17y ago
For kicks, play a game of Settlers with a New Zealander and ask them if they have wood for sheep. ;)
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by mreid 17y ago
I guess mobile Safari is not one of the 20+ browsers that are supported at present. Anyone else not seeing rendered math on their iPhone?
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by mreid 17y ago
The change in typing is not really much of a jump when you realise that Haskell's type inference means you don't have to declare too many type signatures up front. A lot of type signatures in Haskell code are not technically necessary and a
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by mreid 17y ago
Haskell is the obvious alternative. It is a very elegant functional language that is, in my opinion, executed well. Does it fit into your list of languages that miss the mark. If so, in what ways? I also really like Clojure at the moment bu
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Tuning Concurrent Clojure(tbray.org)
43 points by mreid 17y ago|14 comments
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On proof and progress in mathematics(arxiv.org)
25 points by mreid 17y ago|5 comments
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by mreid 17y ago
Great points, especially the one on multiple perspectives. If you haven't read it already I highly recommend Thurston's essay "On proofs and progress in mathematics" - http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236 .
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by mreid 17y ago
Yes. My tolerance is clearly not as high as yours. I made the jump several months ago. It's much nicer here. Let's hope it stays that way.
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by mreid 17y ago
My guess is that it was a bit of self-deprecating humour.
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by mreid 17y ago
So don't do it while you are working.
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by mreid 17y ago
You're not the only one to have expressed this attitude but I find it strange. How long does it take you to write 140 characters or less? Also, unless people are actively following you you are not "spamming" them. Your summary of what Twitt
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by mreid 17y ago
I think to say the book has a heavy focus on frequentist statistics is a little misleading. Jaynes discusses a lot of frequentist methods but the emphasis is on doing so from a very Bayesian point of view.
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by mreid 17y ago
I agree. I had a problem with this specific claim by PG: "Most people would agree it's more admirable to be good at math than memorizing long strings of digits, even though the latter depends more on natural ability." Surely determination p
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by mreid 17y ago
You said: "REST offers conventions that make it easy to guess the URL of what you are looking for, just as you would guess where to click/navigate to get it." In your earlier comment it does seem as though you are talking about guessing the
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CiteMine: A virtual market for scientific publications(citemine.com)
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by mreid 17y ago
That's very neat. Would you mind posting a link to your version from the comments on my article? Thanks. I learnt Haskell before I tried using Clojure and really like it as a language. It doesn't surprise me that it runs faster. I'm guessin
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by mreid 17y ago
I'm the author of the blog post and to answer your question, yes, I know about Incanter. In fact, I found out about Parallel Colt via Incanter. I've played around with it a little and it looks very cool. I was initially going to build my al