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by shasta 11y ago
So you forget things. Everyone does. Now demonstrate that forgetting is caused by learning. It seems you just assumed that part.
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by shasta 11y ago
Actually, the connection between non-terminating computations and Russell's paradox is fairly strong. The piece of explanation missing from the article that is that the naive conception of sets corresponds to total boolean valued fu
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by shasta 11y ago
The issue isn't whether you're editing text or visually interacting. It's that there's a tension between abstraction (parameterized models) and WYSIWYG editing.
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by shasta 11y ago
> There are songs on The Electric Lucifer[1] that would sound ahead of their time if they came out today Uh. When was the last time you listened to this stuff?
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by shasta 11y ago
I assume his formula (1+monthly_churn)^12 – 1 was based on a misremembering or misunderstanding of annual churn = 1 - (1-monthly_churn)^12.
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by shasta 11y ago
If you're simple, clear and first, you're going to get plenty of citations, though.
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by shasta 11y ago
This isn't exactly true. For example, the article names declaration and assignment as among "statements", but such statements are not first class in Haskell. Nor are type, data, type class statements, etc. It is true that
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by shasta 11y ago
His summary ends with: "Rather than seeking the elusive definition of what is a type (which does not exist), I believe that we should look for innovative ways to think about and work with types that do not require an exact formal defin
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by shasta 11y ago
Keep reading. "An actual proof can be accomplished using modular equations. "
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by shasta 11y ago
Awesome project. Ignore the haters. I think this ( https://pchiusano.github.io/2015-04-23/unison-update7.html#r... ) was the link that I found most helpful to get an idea of what you're doing, of the random set o
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by shasta 11y ago
I noticed the ambiguity and clicked on the link just to figure out which was intended.
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by shasta 11y ago
As you say, the problem is that, in an oligopoly, raising prices is often game theoretically optimal. And while explicit collusion may be illegal, implicit collusion (all parties noticing the best strategy independently) currently isn&#x27
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by shasta 11y ago
With Jeopardy questions, you'd buzz in at "This American architect..."
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by shasta 11y ago
Here's all of the foreshadowing sentences. Now you can read them three times. Enjoy: Nobles and rich merchants invited him to their dinner tables, where he spoke gibberish while inhaling mouthfuls of bloody food. There was simply no
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by shasta 11y ago
"Make the world feel big" is rule number 5 or 6. "Your audience is lazy" is rule number 2 or 3.
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by shasta 11y ago
I think the author should post a follow-up after he's tried to do substantial work with this style meta-programming. My guess is that you want to keep templated code to an absolute minimum.
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by shasta 11y ago
That explains why the mega store doesn't want a local shop but not why there is no local shop.
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by shasta 11y ago
The big question of science is "Why...?" The big question of religion is "Who...?"
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by shasta 11y ago
The subject is ambiguous since headlines often use "to" in place of "is to" (as in "Smith to resign").
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by shasta 11y ago
As I've gotten older, I've read what you've written here.
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by shasta 11y ago
> They are negatively curved, any object thrown away on a straight line will eventually return. Isn't that describing positive curvature (e.g. a sphere)?
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by shasta 11y ago
Erm, so the summary is that if medicine doesn't work for you then mindfulness therapy may work just as well as medicine?
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by shasta 11y ago
Very nice. Do you know why it caps out at 5 or 6 sounds for me? Once I've loaded that many sounds, even if I've turned them back off, I can't play any others unless I reload the page. Edit: Actually I think it's just
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by shasta 11y ago
> I have to admit my imagination flashed to an image of somebody wearing a portable biofeedback rig that buzzed (or perhaps zapped) them every time they used the target portion of their brain, in an attempt to starve the tumor. Hopefully
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by shasta 12y ago
Quadratic: f(x) = x^2 Exponential: f(x) = 2^x
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by shasta 12y ago
I think you might have missed my point. I'm an animal lover and have lots of pets. I'm confident that they have rich emotions, feel pain, etc. But as a pet owner, I think it's much more important to provide my animals wit
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by shasta 12y ago
Main point to me: "What this suggests to me is that people who care should be working not for animal rights but animal welfare–to ensure that farm animals don’t suffer and that their deaths are swift and painless." AFAICT animals
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by shasta 12y ago
This clause was the sticking point of the last employment contract I signed. I tried to insist that they separate the compensation they were offering me into the portion for my general employment and the portion for these outside ideas so
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by shasta 12y ago
> At first blush, “no” does not appear to be the kind of word whose meaning you can monkey with. For one thing, there is its length. At just two letters and one syllable, it lacks the pliable properties of longer words. You can’t stuff
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by shasta 12y ago
Shoes reduce cholesterol.

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