peterfirefly

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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Maybe. Or lots of people from country B will get into country A as "refugees", bring along their families, and have taxpayers in country A pay for them while they do what they can to be racist and criminal against native people f
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
And Szilárd was not a top-class physicist (and engineer)?
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
> "Top physicists?" Fusion is an engineering problem." So are refrigerators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Or perhaps more likely, multiplying with a negative number which involves changing the ordering relation in the inequality.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
This does not strike me as a particularly German development...
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
My favourite Mondriaan picture is Gray Tree: http://acdn.architizer.com/thumbnails-PRODUCTION/ac/4f/ac4f2... Very different from the stuff that he's famous for.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Company-wide email for Microsoft.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Hopefully you agree that it is an empirical question? If it isn't possible to go out and look at the world to see if the average IQ is 85 then it isn't possible to see that it isn't 85. Now, I wonder if somebody has done th
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
You are right and I apologize. I relied on my memory in this case because I, quite frankly, was lazy, hungry, and about to make dinner. I have definitely seen him described as a General before the war, in texts written by Americans, though,
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
It's definitely also converts :( Your second point is not even wrong. There's plenty of respect for decent people who treat others right. There is a growing dissatisfaction with religious nutcases and criminals and layabouts. T
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
He was also an English general who betrayed his nation and his king.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
"Why are EU youth joining the ISIS? They don't have any other opportunities in life." That's an utter and complete lie. Even if you believe it explains the Arabs who join the ISIS (which it doesn't), it certainly do
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
It matters if it takes seconds to run, especially if the UI around the crash reporting/data gathering isn't too great, which it often isn't.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Yes, the cerebellum is know as 'lillehjernen' in Danish and that word is the only word most people know for it. Nevertheless, doctors learn the word cerebellum so they can read what doctors in other countries write. They also use
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Perhaps there are many Swedish and Norwegian customers in Denmark?
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
No, but it does whole-program optimization.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Blumenthal, "Introduction to Implicit Surfaces". Possibly quite dated, though.
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Got a newer reference than Benezet 1936? Got a reference where they tested it with good math teachers? Has the study been replicated in a country with a different (better) math tradition, such as France?
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
C++ exceptions came from ML. The original purpose in ML was definitely control flow. Or rather, controllable heuristic search in the context of a proof assistant. A heuristic could "give up" by raising an exception and a meta he
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Glynn Winskel, "The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages", 1993 -- a bit dated but still quite good. Covers basic semantics/type theory. Benjamin Pierce, "Types and Programming Languages", 2002 -- y'know,
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
"Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consu
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
Really, in spite of everything?
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by peterfirefly 12y ago
They did.