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by omaranto 14y ago
The math that goes into making a useful CAS can be beautiful, but "simpler than red-black trees" is not a description that springs to mind. A toy CAS might be pretty easy, though.
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by omaranto 14y ago
I don't see anyone scanning them here in Boston, but I have heard that in other parts of the world people do use them. They're supposed to be popular in Japan and South Korea. (Can anyone confirm that?)
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by omaranto 14y ago
> Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but having Pandoc means support for math (e.g. TeX) is standard. I like the optimism in that "maybe" at the beginning of the sentence.
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by omaranto 14y ago
Why did you decide to prefix the last sentence with "Disclaimer: "?
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by omaranto 14y ago
Well, dmpk2k did say "with zero type annotations". How does SBCL fare without them?
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by omaranto 14y ago
Does the term "array-backed" include the possibility of using an array of arrays? That would get you up to about 2^62...
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by omaranto 14y ago
I was about to correct your spelling, but decided to look it up just in case and learned something: while in the US the past tense of spell is "spelled" other English speaking countries use both "spelled" and "spelt"...
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by omaranto 14y ago
It would be weird to have Peter Gabriel write about software. My favorite book of his is http://books.google.com/books/about/Introduction_to_Algebrai...
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by omaranto 14y ago
The reason the quote in 3) makes no sense is that it's wrong. :) The article gives a correct explanation in a footnote: The formula for this location quotient is (# of Hate Tweets in State / # of Hate Tweets in USA) --------
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by omaranto 14y ago
I haven't seen that. Can you point me to an example online?
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by omaranto 14y ago
This is not hard to understand: under usual semantics for function calls it is clearly impossible to do return type overloading in a dynamically typed language. But, as I pointed out above, it is perfectly practical to cheat and provide an
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by omaranto 14y ago
Perl is dynamic and does allow return value overloading via the wantarray function.
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by omaranto 14y ago
And make you miss the ability to overload functions just on return type. Same thing happens if you use Haskell's regex library or try t port monads to another language.
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by omaranto 14y ago
I recently tried GNOME 3.4 for about a month. I liked it right away: it's pretty and it's practical. I stopped using it because it slowed down my (old, granted) computer horribly after a few days (memory leak?). Restarting the computer made
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by omaranto 14y ago
For writing GTK apps the language Vala seems like a good choice. It's a C# like language whose object system uses glib objects underneath the hood, this makes object-oriented C code (as required by GTK) look like a modern object-oriented la
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by omaranto 14y ago
Pat probably meant 'idiosyncratic' instead of 'idiomatic' (unless it's a non-idiomatic use of 'idiomatic').
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by omaranto 14y ago
Oh, you just meant you wanted lambda x: map(f,x) to be an endomorphism for any f (you said map itself should be an endomorphism which confused me). Well, it already does what you want: lambda x: map(f,x) takes an iterable and returns an ite
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by omaranto 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. map is not supposed to be an endomorphism, rather it takes a function f and returns a list homomorphism.
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by omaranto 14y ago
The English speakers must not have taken many math courses: there type declarations much more commonly come after the variable name than the other way around, although both styles are used. I mean "Let G be a group and f an automorphism of
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by omaranto 14y ago
1. Could you recommend some of these good WYSIWYG editors you claim exist? The ones I've seen are all slow or awkward (basically not having enough keyboard shortcuts) or get confused when I delete part of the text (and usually have all of t
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by omaranto 14y ago
$500, see http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102
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by omaranto 14y ago
This sounds to me like asking "Why would a scammer do something that makes the scam more plausible?". The answer is, of course, to make more people fall for it. Their target is tiny (people that want to write math papers!), so they need to
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by omaranto 14y ago
I fail to see how that would get your down voters to respond to you.
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by omaranto 14y ago
No, that's not what happened: this journal is a scam, they publish anything vaguely math paper-like in exchange for $500.
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by omaranto 14y ago
I think IEEE doubles can represent up to 53 bit integers exactly. (Someone here will know if that's true.)
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by omaranto 14y ago
Wait, what? Python doesn't have single dispatch? How does it pick which block of code to run when you say a.f(x)? That dispatches on the class of a doesn't it?
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by omaranto 14y ago
About logic programming: I think the current feeling is that its great for certain kinds of subproblems cropping up in a program but not so hot for structuring the whole thing, and that therefore Prolog or something like it is better as a l
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by omaranto 14y ago
"... Apps to fill it" I guess some video games could be large, but wouldn't most people with tablets fill most of their storage with audio and video files rather than apps?
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by omaranto 14y ago
About: "In discussions with a theorist, they would never tell me that something is O(n^n) if it is not also Θ(n^n)". So you've never heard someone say, for example, that Strassen's algorithm shows that matrix multiplication for n x n matric

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