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by sago 8y ago
It nicely deferred the giveaway phrase 'intelligent design' until very late. But they call evolutionary biologists 'evolutionists', and find that this new model refutes the whale fossil series (creationists really hate t
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by sago 8y ago
This is part of the post-intelligent-design attack on evolution. The idea that we couldn't have evolved, because evolution can't create information. It merely turns on and off information that is already there. The website linked
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by sago 8y ago
This is an article from an antievolution, pro-intelligent design, 'science news' website, run by the Discovery Institute. It is promoting a paper from their own journal. It was not peer-reviewed. And was created and funded based o
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by sago 8y ago
> You can't demonstrate where my reasoning is wrong I specifically said why your argument was wrong. Without independence it is simply untrue. > Congratulations, you're an ideologue. I am. Mathematical flummery triggers me.
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by sago 8y ago
> Who said that fitness in my description cannot include group fitness? I did. Because doing so contradicts your conclusion. Though I also said it is not necessary. Lack of independence alone makes you wrong. > The same argument goes
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by sago 8y ago
What very confident nonsense! Individual fitness is not independent, let alone group fitness. And without independence you are just plain wrong. Sociology dressed up as a priori mathematics is rarely credible. Even worse if the math simply
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by sago 8y ago
It's a really handsome piece of work. I love the papercraft aesthetic. Well done. One of the randomizations I generated was uncannily like a winking eye. But sadly I only discovered the shareable link after I had lost it. Oh, the ephem
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by sago 8y ago
Nice job. Here is my suggestion. If the aim is to educate, it would be good to get a bit of feedback on the wrong answers. So if it said "This is breakbeat, breakbeat is characterised by..." I'm not big into EDM, so I thought
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by sago 8y ago
Simple to try this yourself. Print 1000 copies of your book, record the price. Then hire a professional copyeditor to do line edits, an illustrator/designer for the cover, and a professional typesetter for the content, a professional i
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by sago 8y ago
Tuple spaces are simply a way of coordinating between distributed processes. > possibly replace robust supervised process management. No more than message passing replaces supervised process management. A supervisor might use message pas
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by sago 8y ago
The value perceived by shareholders is only partially related to the current revenues. It is about perceived future value. And shareholders are right to be spooked I think. Revenues have grown 47% for only 11% in MAU. I don't hold shar
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by sago 8y ago
I have a feeling that the whole Erom genre is where porn videos were 10 years ago. Low quality, keyword-stuffed, fad-following, repetitive content is so ubiquitous (and all that's needed to get someone off) that someone will come along
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by sago 8y ago
After RTFM, I can answer my own question: > In Arc, data structures can be used wherever functions are, and they behave as functions from indices to whatever's stored there. (quoted from the Arc tutorial) So arc> (l 0) 1
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by sago 8y ago
I don't know Arc, so this confuses me: arc> (map l '(0 1 2)) (1 2 3) What is the logic here? Is l made into a function that holds state and returns each element in turn (like an iterator function)? Because I would&#x27
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by sago 8y ago
Well that will act as a deterrent then!
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Facebook faces record UK fine for data misuse: £500,000(bbc.co.uk)
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by sago 8y ago
On the off chance that you have a genuine interest in knowing the answers to your questions, and are not grandstanding, I will answer. First differentiate between the syntax and the tool. This isn't a tool that supports every possible
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by sago 8y ago
It is great to see this pop-up again. Such a great toolset, deliberately limited, in such a way that anyone can create a game in an hour or so, but powerful enough that the games aren't all the same. You can put some genuinely interest
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by sago 8y ago
> others must be coerced into handing over the fruits of their labor This is exactly taxation of all kinds. And your framing presupposes that these fruits that would be obtainable without the social structure that those payments support.
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by sago 8y ago
The GP explicitly reverses the conditional probability > the most financially successful people I know had mediocre college grades is saying something about p(mediocre grades|successful) i.e. among the people I know who are successful, a
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by sago 8y ago
> Python doesn't give you the macros needed to write your own for other kinds of resource. Python doesn't use macros, true. But it absolutely gives you the ability to do 'with' for other kinds of resource (and anythin
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by sago 8y ago
Thank you. For clarity, here would be the GP example: Foo foo = acquireFoo() defer releaseFoo(foo) if !isValid(foo) { return FAIL } moreWork(foo) return SUCCESS That is impressively clear. I don't use go,
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by sago 8y ago
Thank you. Since the example was nothing to do with exceptions, and we don't want to abuse exceptions by using them when they are not needed, I will rewrite your example to cover the GP case: Foo foo = acquireFoo(); try {
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by sago 8y ago
> If your language doesn't have a high-level equivalent of `goto fail` Such as? I am aware of writing this in different ways, of architecting the logic quite differently. But the only control-flow construct I've seen as alterna
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by sago 8y ago
So, about single page apps... I agree. But we are still quite a young industry, certainly as far as relatively mature tooling goes. Perhaps one day soon the technology cycle will be taught to programmers in the same way that MBAs learn abou
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by sago 8y ago
What did 3.4 give you that 2.7 already had? I have found bundled pip and asyncio useful, but I was using Py3 from 3.2, successfully. It didn't suddenly become usable at 3.4 for me.
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by sago 8y ago
I like to remind people that Python 3 was already more than a year old when Apple announced the first iPad. I'm not sure anyone should be getting a cookie for 'working on' Py3 support more than nine years later. Though I do u
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by sago 8y ago
Perhaps because a small part of the cost of the product comes from the sticky stuff itself. Selling a quarter of the quantity may have 90% of the cost of sale. So it might have to be $12 for a pack or, $11 for a small sachet, to be worthwhi
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by sago 8y ago
> All they learned is irrelevant details I disagree. Perhaps you mean that they didn't learn anything positive. I learned that it doesn't work with glasses, that it can't work outside, that the required processing puck wil
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by sago 8y ago
I've mused on this in relation to github's pages sitting on the gh-pages branch: a feature I like in the abstract, though I have problems with their implementation (it seems designed to increase lock-in rather than increase flexib

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