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by nova 17y ago
His advice is not bad, but it can be simplified: low carb diet. Avoid specially excess fructose, so yes, lose the sodas, and sweets and sugar. And cereals derivatives (like bread). Also starchy vegetables (like potatoes). Exercise if you wa
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by nova 17y ago
You could also concatenate the strings, as they are know at compile time, and use puts or something simpler than printf. puts("FAILED: " #expr ) (Or you could keep the printf, as it looks like GCC optimizes it to puts when just used to prin
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by nova 17y ago
And they will probably teach about the evil, evil meat and fats and say nothing about fructose and other carbohydrates...
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by nova 17y ago
Just mentioning another approach. I don't really understand it myself, but I kind of find it intriguing because of its relation to computability aspects.
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by nova 17y ago
There is also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_infinitesimal_analysis It uses intuitionistic logic, so no axiom of choice.
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by nova 17y ago
Very cool, but I think that the heel-toe landing move is a bit exaggerated.
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by nova 17y ago
What free market? Intellectual "property" IS a government-given monopoly.
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by nova 17y ago
Besides SICM, http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/wisdom/AIM-2005-003.pd...
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by nova 17y ago
Oh yes, I agree. Standard probability notation is handy and fast but just depends too much on the context. I wonder if someone has created a more orthogonal notation for probability, like Sussman did with the Schemish/functional notation fo
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by nova 17y ago
I think it's more that although C++ sucks there is no realistic alternative for this "niche".
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by nova 17y ago
So physics = computing?
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by nova 17y ago
Yes, but before advocating any diet please read Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories". Please. The government already amplified a terrible mistake to colossal dimensions and could do it again.
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by nova 17y ago
Why is the first law of thermodynamics so hard for people to internalize? The first law of thermodynamics stablishes a relation between energy input, energy output and energy storage. It does not say which variables are independent, ie, t
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by nova 17y ago
I'm also doing a low-carb diet, for a month and a half. No exercise of any kind. 6 kg lost, and counting.
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by nova 17y ago
A coherent capitalist fanatic wouln't like intellectual property at all!
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by nova 17y ago
Exactly. The real disgrace is all those technologies developed with taxpayer money and yet patented, closed or restricted.
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by nova 17y ago
It sure seems simplistic, but again and again we suffer from policies against that simple rule. It's amazing (and depressing) how many problems can be explained by it, like politicians implementing myopic short-term reforms in order to win
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by nova 17y ago
Spoiler!!!!: "The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups." The rest
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by nova 17y ago
Yes. The book "Good calories, bad calories" is the standard recommendation. It will however destroy your trust in the medical authorities.
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by nova 17y ago
Maybe when the patents expire and we get some competition.
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by nova 17y ago
The old 14 year limit was a good balance, specially if updated to only cover commercial distribution.
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by nova 17y ago
Yes but the professor is not the only provider of the required computer.
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by nova 17y ago
Good Factor is more about combinators than stack juggling.
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by nova 17y ago
Couldn't disagree more. The world already has enough von-Neumann-style languages and people working on them; we need to explore different ways.