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by sbmassey 9y ago
The BBC, though in lamentable shape in many ways, is not usually considered a Fake news source. Do you have any links to English language reports that are less biased from your standpoint?
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Well I guess you could write sum() instead of Σ, and dot() instead of ·, but I’m not sure it would really help people understand it. Do people find Mathematica expressions easier to understand than traditionally formatted equations?
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All this technology is amazing, but does it have any applications beyond mechanical timepieces?
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I found going to acting school a help. I doubt I could have mustered up the courage to do stuff in front of an audience back then, but being given a script to perform in front of a small group of other acting students was much easier.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Some of Sapphire and Steel was amazingly terrifying, given how low budget it was. But I suspect modern film makers would not be able to avoid ruining the ambiguous feeling of the series by trying to depict what is going on in the larger sc
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Most right wing politicians in the west have been called Nazis at one time or another.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Freedom of speech is an ideal, not a government mandate - you are thinking of the first amendment, which requires the US Federal government to conform to the ideal. Monopolistic publishers that refuse to publish certain works are against f
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Mathematica has had that syntax since the 1990's at least. Plus there's good old q's implicit argument naming of x, y, z when you didn't give the args explicit names: each[{2*x}] 1 2 3 1 2 3 {x*y}/: 4 5 6
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by sbmassey 9y ago
"Only exact literal words count for meaning" is the only fair way of interpreting any given nonfictional writing. Without that, you have nothing to stop yourself from falling into mass hysteria, conspiracy theories, witch burning
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Reporting the condemnations without commenting on their truthiness could be considered to be implicity validating them.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
You are the one that brought up the US constitution, the OP was talking about freedom of speech as a principle. It is hardly surprising that the US constitution would only apply FoS to the government, since that is what it is trying to def
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by sbmassey 9y ago
She said "very little" Norman genes, not none at all. Given that the normal story of the Norman invasion is not about mass invasion, but the replacement of one ruling class with another, so relatively few actual people, this woul
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I'd say the movie was more about Roy Batty and his chums falling from Heaven to Earth, Roy meeting their creator and then killing him, and then sparing their tormentor while dying. The "Deckard learns what it is to be hunted&quot
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by sbmassey 9y ago
According to http://archive.archaeology.org/9909/abstracts/pyramids.html carbon dating makes the old kingdom pyramids older than their historical dates, although they suggest they may have been using old wood.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Well, if he was a monarch before writing had been developed, he would have had a hard time putting his name on it.
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To say nothing of vitally important format expressions like (format t "~{~a~^, ~}" list)
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by sbmassey 9y ago
You seem amusingly obsessed over a trivial difference in the way two different varieties of English chose to shorten the word 'mathematics'. As far as I can tell, there are no official rules for shortening words in English, so I
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by sbmassey 9y ago
It is uncountable. Nobody serious justifies 'maths' based on it being plural, it is just a different contraction of the word 'mathematics' than what you are used to.
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Clockwork is not a model that immediately springs to mind when I consider the complex chemical interactions and environmental sensitivity of a eukaryotic cell.
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Translating the tens of keywords in a given typical language won't get you very far though - you need translations for all the terms in all the commonly used libraries, and documentation of how to use them.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
I read, when they were pushing 3D TV, that some 10-15% of the population don't have 3D perception for one reason or another, and therefore don't get the immersive experience. Personally, being in that category, I don't get m
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by sbmassey 9y ago
You can use functions outside of shell scripts - they can serve as a better kind of alias, or as a way of modifying the current shell without having to type the '.' before the script.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
It's not that hard to glide from the /m/ to the /n/ without an intervening vowel or anything before the /m/, it is just unfamiliar to anglophones. The Russian language has all kinds of bizzare consonant c
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You can still mark it deprecated, even if you don't actually get around to removing it - code that gets recompiled will see the warning and hopefully fix it, and that which doesn't will still work.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
What are the advantages over Anki?
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Do you have specific criticisms? I'm pretty fine with OSX these days now that I can have two maximised windows next to each other on a screen, and four-finger switch left and right between screens
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Has she specified anywhere what 'the internet must be regulated' might mean? There's a huge difference between having Facebook-and-Twitter type organisations share stuff with the police, and trying to manage every possible m
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Lisp is no more 'inside to out' than any other programming language, it just uses the same syntax for each subclause where other languages randomly choose different syntaxes for different kinds of expressions, so C if (a == 0)
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by sbmassey 9y ago
The point is that there is more to blockchain technology than just Merkle trees, I think. Just focussing on the underlying datastructure is like saying filesystems are just B trees or something.
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quit is not a piece of repl functionality, it is a python function that will exit the repl when called, with a string representation that gives that message. If I set quit = 1, or if I define my own quit() function, I don't want to ha

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