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Broken Kingdom: Fifty Years of the Phantom Tollbooth (2011)(newyorker.com)
2 points by sevensor 7y ago|1 comments
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by sevensor 7y ago
I did this too, although the makefile presented in the article is much cleaner than mine was. Definitely recommend XeLaTeX. You're not going to get very far without unicode. I had to drop down to LaTeX often to control formatting,
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by sevensor 7y ago
There's also the "not all memory is RAM" trick: plan ahead with enough swap to fit all the data you intend to process, and just pretend that you have enough RAM. Let the virtual memory subsystem worry about whether or not
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by sevensor 7y ago
Just today, I went back to one of my old textbooks (Lathi's Signal Processing and Linear Systems ) and came out with some really important points about Fourier analysis that I'd missed the first time around. A good, carefully wr
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by sevensor 7y ago
I remember being surprised at how quickly the Panama papers blew over. Earlier this year I went and did some cursory reading on their contents, and it's doubly surprising. The lengths to which people will go are stunning, people who
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by sevensor 7y ago
Howard's End . From observations on the alienating experience of automobile travel, to the nature of the corporation, to the precarious lot of the low-end knowledge worker, Howard's End feels shockingly, jarringly modern. I&#
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by sevensor 7y ago
Consider switching to engineering, especially MechE or EE, or maybe industrial engineering if you can't handle calculus. To distinguish yourself in pure CS, you need to come up with something really smart. There are many, many subdom
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by sevensor 7y ago
Chapter 6 is the only place you'll find me talking about rotational invariance, and unfortunately I had to recite the B.S. party line there. If you read any of it, read chapter 5 and chapter 2.
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by sevensor 7y ago
I had this experience with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. I worked with a researcher who was hung up on the idea of "rotationally invariant search operators." This idea made little sense in the first place. To the ext
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by sevensor 7y ago
I was curious about lichens in desert environments, and my web searches led me to this delightful site's page on desert varnish. The author really enjoys lichens!
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Wayne's World: An On-Line Textbook of Natural History(www2.palomar.edu)
1 points by sevensor 7y ago|1 comments
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by sevensor 7y ago
In grad school, I revived some FORTRAN66 code for aircraft sizing. (You can probably download an equivalent model from Dan Raymer's website as an Excel workbook.) This was not its first revival, according to the comments in the code.
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by sevensor 7y ago
Happily paying for the alpha, and using to host a personal project. Sourcehut already has more features than I'm taking advantage of. It does very well the thing it needs to do most, which is to be a git remote I can access from anyw
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by sevensor 7y ago
This comes at a good time! I was just talking with my spouse about why you put n-1 in the denominator when you calculate variance. I always liked "because you used up a degree of freedom calculating the mean," but I feel like th
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by sevensor 7y ago
And the ][e itself didn't come with one. My family upgraded our Apple ][e by adding an 80 column card.
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by sevensor 7y ago
While I greatly enjoyed the article and its effort at historical synthesis, the author cites a fact that's not exactly true: > Then in 1983 the Apple IIe was introduced, the first Apple computer to natively support an 80×24 text d
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by sevensor 7y ago
Beware that only recent versions of Python have a sqlite3 recent enough to support window functions. This bit me recently; I had to scrap a prototype, pull all the data out, and use numpy instead. Still, in general, SQLite3 is amazing and
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by sevensor 7y ago
I recently got the assignment to "do ML" on some data. I hadn't done anything in the area before, and a couple of things surprised me: 1. Most of your time is spent transforming data. Very little is spent building models. 2
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by sevensor 7y ago
The nice thing about these settings (I use the same ones) is that if you're on a machine that's not configured to use them, they take only moments to type.
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by sevensor 7y ago
GLPK really came through for me once. I was working with some academic code that had been written in Python. The Python was writing AMPL scripts and then invoking a commercial solver on them. I bound to GLPK using CFFI and replaced all o
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by sevensor 7y ago
Perhaps what we need to do is make roadways more dangerous for motorists, so they'll slow down and not kill as many pedestrians.
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by sevensor 7y ago
Who exactly are you arguing against here, who says that Linux always works? Your Samsung example is instructive here. One-off hardware that was never intended to run under Linux, never did and still doesn't. While you have had some
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by sevensor 7y ago
> There is a role for a non-profit here to test products, publicise the results Does Consumers' Union still do stuff like this?
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by sevensor 7y ago
You got me. I exaggerated. A large number of streetside trees in the downtown area have accident scars on them.
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by sevensor 7y ago
Not to mention people constantly ramming vehicles into them. There's not a tree in my town that doesn't have a big scar on the trunk at bumper level.
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by sevensor 7y ago
> meat and spices in a slow cooker I cannot overstate how much of a difference it makes to season your food with delicious spices. I think packaged food has so much sugar and salt in it partly because spices are comparatively expensive
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by sevensor 7y ago
At my doctor's urging, I've cut out added sugar and switched to a high fiber diet. I eased into it. First I cut out the category of things that are mostly made of sugar: dessert foods, ketchup and many salad dressings, most brea
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by sevensor 7y ago
Apparently there was a fad for building schools with no windows. There's a 70s era middle school in the (U.S.) town where I live; it won a design award for its total lack of fenestration. It was supposed to reduce distraction or some
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by sevensor 7y ago
It was pretty bad at university computer labs. I was forever picking lint out of those mice and scraping gunk off the rollers.
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by sevensor 7y ago
It's funny how one gets stuck on things like that. In between my family's 286 and our first Pentium, we didn't upgrade. Consequently, there's a part of me that still believes the 386, with its awesome Turbo button, to

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