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by notfashion 7y ago
If I were you I wouldn't make a personal ethical stand on this (by not learning GNU software). If you're the only one who does it, it can realistically only hurt you.
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by notfashion 7y ago
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/253486/name-of-de-m... As far as I can remember, Wainer doesn't really assert that the equation is known as "de Moivre's equation", that's just wha
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by notfashion 7y ago
I think there's an error in the first bit of example code: float fbm( in vecN x, in float H ) { float t = 0.0; for( int i=0; i<numOctaves; i++ ) { float f = pow( 2.0, float(i) ); float
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by notfashion 7y ago
If I understand this correctly, it's not even a matter of using a filter, just a case of summing some random sinusoids with an appropriate weighting for each according to the frequency. You can do this by starting off with noise in the
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by notfashion 7y ago
Representing an arbitrary sequence of bits, digits, etc. using a real number is the basis for arithmetic coding. As such, it's an approach that has been productive historically, and arithmetic coding continues to be widely used. So the
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by notfashion 7y ago
What I don't exactly get is how the pages are assigned. It's not really a hashing algorithm in that sense, it's more like a dictionary data structure where the user has to choose the storage locations. It's only possible
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by notfashion 7y ago
The presence of the term "gaslighting" in the comment you are replying to implies that this might be a situation involving narcissism. It's all very well, in a pop psych way, to tell someone "be more zen", but there
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by notfashion 7y ago
I'm not sure the scenarios "some of my best friends are of the opposite sex" or "some of my best friends are of another race" have much bearing on sexism or racism. Loving someone from a different category doesn&#x2
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by notfashion 7y ago
This is misleading. There's no place in the specification of Haskell that specifically defines monads as part of the language. They aren't a language feature. They are a pattern which happens to be expressible in Haskell, and whic
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by notfashion 7y ago
Each rotor implements a permutation of its input terminals. So maybe more like a p-box, but the difference is significant (only two wires in use at a any time, and one is in "reverse") so probably just thinking of it as a permutat
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by notfashion 7y ago
Ireland's per capita level of funding for research has been lagging badly behind the European average, though. It's really a cultural problem: R&D doesn't happen here, except in rare cases. It's not really down to th
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by notfashion 7y ago
If you read to the end, there's a mention of the premature collapse of the probabilistic inference about some entity. That clarifies what the author is talking about. The scenario is something like a situation in which individuals are
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by notfashion 7y ago
I think this section on Wikipedia is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80#Grego...
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by notfashion 7y ago
It's not a case of an "original headline": this is an entirely separate article, not a regurgitation of the press release. Wolchover is a very serious writer. It's pretty sickening to watch the (sadly predictable) HN sne
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by notfashion 7y ago
A bit of googling led to this document: https://www.academia.edu/5256838/Rekursiv_an_object-_oriente...
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by notfashion 7y ago
That's fair to say. Rational angles happen to make things easy and result in a problem which has connections with lots of well-developed areas of mathematics. This paper https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/Papers/
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by notfashion 7y ago
The architecturally significant part of the TWA terminal is now a hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Hotel . As Wikipedia says, it "straddles" various styles including Googie. I don't think a pure G
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by notfashion 7y ago
If you mean this building: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/jewel-changi-airpo... then I disagree. That structure couldn't have been achieved with the technology of the Googie era. It's a "high-
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by notfashion 7y ago
He wrote a book, published in 2018: "The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter". But maybe this video is similar in content to the talk you saw?
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by notfashion 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling#Cut-and-pro...
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by notfashion 7y ago
The idea is that you can use it anywhere you need to make a decision about proportions. It's not complicated. Designers know that it's no use if you need a proportion close to 1:10 or 1:1, but there is often enough flexibility to
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by notfashion 7y ago
A lot of people in the psychiatric field believe that mental illness is due to chemical imbalances in the brain. No tests exist which can detect those imbalances. Your faith in "biology" as the ultimate underlying reality of menta
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by notfashion 7y ago
It might converge more slowly than any other simple continued fraction, but there are some super-slow to converge generalized continued fractions. A couple of examples that are slower than phi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by notfashion 7y ago
The journalist writing the article may have distorted what he said. Is their a dogma of accident investigation that says there is always a root cause, or is it just a conventional way of working? There are certainly domains in which root ca
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by notfashion 7y ago
Charles Howard Hinton is actually a very prominent figure in the history of eccentric mathematicians. Anyone who read Rudy Rucker's book about the fourth dimension in the 90s knew about the earlier Hinton's bigamy and superstition
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by notfashion 7y ago
This is a problem that architects are aware of. It's bad to build with photography and media exposure in mind. But I'm not sure the architect you met was guilty of that. New buildings tend to be documented and published in an unoc
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by notfashion 7y ago
Yes, I did (later on) see his "stretch" version of the slogan at the end of the article, but I don't buy it. Everyone knows there are operations that can't be encoded in category theoretic terms, for example a lot of thi
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by notfashion 7y ago
Hmmm, I have a strange sense of deja vu in replying to this comment. There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekt%C5%8Dn which broadly supports your first paragraph. On the other hand, in architecture, tectonics is usua
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by notfashion 7y ago
One other thing that has a lot in common with those two is algebraic data types. Products and sums crop up in all these areas. Maybe it's enough to say that with category theory, we feel like we are revealing the "elementary parti
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by notfashion 7y ago
https://zenodo.org/record/584073#.XV8FKmko80M

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