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by sesqu 16y ago
I've had it crash repeatedly, but it remains the best editor I've ever called WYSIWYG, whether or not that's accurate.
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by sesqu 16y ago
By finger-append I meant that skip lists are normally singly linked, and so you can append to a sublist but not prepend nor insert into the implied subtree. The O(1) wasn't amortized, it was expected. The citation is P. L. Karlton, S. H. Fu
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by sesqu 16y ago
I find AVL trees simpler as well, and probably a good deal more performant. The nice thing about skip lists, beyond being mostly simple, is that min() is O(1), which is far more useful than the middling value at the root of AVL trees. That
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by sesqu 16y ago
What does Bayes Theorem look like? [--] I mean, how can we visualize the cognitive content of the theorem? Umm, how about a Venn diagram? Seriously, it's not that complicated. In my mind's eye, p(µ|θ) := |{ x | µ(x)∧θ(x) }| ÷ |{ x | θ(x)
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by sesqu 16y ago
My Danish isn't too hot, but I make it N=1146, Danish only.
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by sesqu 16y ago
I'm using Chrome 8 on linux, and Ctrl-S in the pdf viewer most definitely does not re-download the file. I know this because when I do that, Evince cannot open the saved file (the Chrome version has stuff at the end that the original does n
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by sesqu 16y ago
This sequence, by the way, is called the look-and-say sequence. If you like it, you might be interested in this blog post on the length of the terms: http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/2010/10/a-derivation-of-con...
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by sesqu 16y ago
I recently had a problem with their account management as well: SE forgot who I am, and created a new account for my e-mail address. I then recovered my original account, and ended up being logged in as different users (with identical crede
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by sesqu 16y ago
People may have a crappy built-in magnetometer, but it seems you don't need one - just a lot of practice. There are cultures that put such weight on the cardinal directions that they always maintain a sense of where they are facing. en.wiki
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by sesqu 16y ago
You don't have to be famous to be nefarious. flagrantly wicked or impious : evil Origin: Latin nefarius, from nefas crime http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nefarious
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by sesqu 16y ago
For some approximation of "originally". The rubber company had bought a cable company and an electricity company, and they merged in 1967. The electronics work came from the cable branch and the name from the electricity branch. The phone c
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people valuate injustices that happen to them much higher than things that happen to other people That doesn't matter. Sure, people do disagree on things that involve them personally, but they aren't the only ones acting . Very often, pe
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by sesqu 16y ago
You missed the switch to differing valuations between two different people, it seems. No, I refuted the importance of it. My point was that while there might not be a universal, metric, objective measure of injustice agreed to by all invo
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by sesqu 16y ago
Downvoting for disagreeing is bad because your brain already does that for you, and very well at that. Votes regulate eyeballs, and should be awarded to comments that give you new insights, not ones that reaffirm your existing prejudices. I
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by sesqu 16y ago
If you are concerned about injustice in the world, you can't make a more just world by committing your own injustices. No two people agree on how bad an injustice is Your second statement is at war with your first. Clearly, people can com
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by sesqu 16y ago
Biomass is old hat. Wood, peat, ethanol, methane - plenty of energy comes from that stuff. However, I had never heard of non-plant biomass use before, so this is interesting indeed. The trouble with biomass is that we're not great at extrac
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by sesqu 16y ago
That's not a tax.
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by sesqu 16y ago
The dataset sounds so small that I'd expect the winning answer will be extensively seeded by medical doctors. Diagnostic data is usually very difficult to approach with AI, and practising doctors have good heuristics. That suggests, to me,
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by sesqu 16y ago
I considered not using that word (usually), but decided I don't know enough to remove all weaseling. I didn't intend it to be taken as representative of my understanding. However, from your exposition, it seems fitting. I'm firmly against a
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by sesqu 16y ago
Well, around here the cops know who has guns, as well as whether they're known to be a bit crazy. The police are also usually not treated like an invading army, so it's apples for oranges. I'd at least suggest holstering the weapons until t
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by sesqu 16y ago
True. But if it isn't, it should be considered emotional harm or sabotage, not straight-up damage.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Tazers might be called fake guns.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Yeah, I don't agree with that. If it's a paper in the mail that says "we know it's you", I'd be pretty scared. If it's a policeman at the door saying "come in for questioning", I'd be shitting my pants. If it's three policemen saying "we've
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by sesqu 16y ago
I'm not a fan. These are guns we are talking about, not paperwork. Paperwork is the shit that's real, guns are just there to make you feel helpless. And also to kill you.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Apparently, it's subjective. Someone on Reddit said the Arabic version is akin to Fox News, while others felt it's doing a good job. So I guess it depends on what you're expecting to hear. http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/eryzu/a
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by sesqu 16y ago
Yes but no. For non-integers, the factorial isn't defined. Just because the gamma function is an analytic continuation (read: generalization) of the factorial doesn't mean you can go ahead and return anything other than an error code in tho
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by sesqu 16y ago
They're not confined to a single tab for me. It seems like child tabs go in the parent process, for example, so I usually get 2-5 tabs crashing at once. I also get more crashes with Chrome than I used to get with Firefox, but maybe I'm just
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by sesqu 16y ago
Well, there was/is that trusted computing thing, i.e. putting DRM on the PC in hardware. The benefit would be denying encryption from terrorists/pirates/dissenters, like he just said. Interesting data can be stored just about anywhere, from
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by sesqu 16y ago
This reminds me of two things. The first is the intro to statistics exercise on how you can't have uniform probability on a continuous domain, since you will almost surely miss any particular point on the board. It is often illustrated with
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by sesqu 16y ago
I haven't used windows since 98SE, but I learned my lesson and have recommended all family members put programs in the default locations. I used to have Windows on C:, Program Files on D: and My Documents on E:. Everything broke, to an appr

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