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by slackenerny 17y ago
We started from me claimimg that the subject is not fascinating , by which I understood "interesting scientifically" and not aesthetically or philosophically pleasant. This is a point independent from gauging NKS content itself. You stil
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by slackenerny 17y ago
NKS (or evolutionary methods or whatever) That'd be it. Can you define the paradigm? State the idea and the method?
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by slackenerny 17y ago
It is interesting to parallel Wolfram with Thinking Machines founders. It is a rather little known fact that, trained through TM catastrophe, its founders went on to form a stealth company, called Ab Initio, which is wildly successful despi
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by slackenerny 17y ago
And you're in a good company. Feynman for example found it fascinating too, that's why he worked at Thinking Machines and made first cellular automata based QCD simulations. Outcome of this popular fascination is now known as AI-winter.
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Because it was no review but an analysis. Review is when renowed reviewer gives his opinion which is backed by his authority. When your'e a poor grad student, like Aaronson in 2002, then you better withold emotional opinons and give facts.
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Especially since its [ANKS] subject is indeed fascinating. It is not. Or at best in a sense that Pythagorean Harmony is. Subject has been explored to death long before ANKS. In sixties by every garden variety computer scientist, and in
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by slackenerny 17y ago
I loved how Steele ridiculed visual programming in his "50 on 50" talk* by showing Piet † as exemplary for the paradigm. * http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3101 † http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language)
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by slackenerny 17y ago
I've never heard of anyone who became an expert in Quantum Field Theory in a couple of years without having a background in Physics An anecdote, FWIW ;) Once Pierre Deligne, and few fellow mathematicians, annoyed at their utter lack of un
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Ghrist has one nice overview article, another one comes from Gunnar Carlsson and his group at Stanford, http://comptop.stanford.edu/preprints/topologyAndData.pdf (and a toy: http://www.stanford.edu/~gurjeet/mapper.html ), but you surely
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by slackenerny 17y ago
pg asked about it a while ago that'd be here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294321
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Oh, I forgot to mention--Britain also broke Enigma. Polish 1930's Cipher Bureau would beg to disagree, having working deciphering procedures as early as in middle 30's. Turing's "Bombe" design closely followed Polish prototype cryptologic
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Hmm, go and read chapter five of lcamtuf's book "Silence on the Wire," part of which is incidentally available as a book sample: http://www.nostarch.com/download/silence_ch05.pdf wherein he gives this scenario a fair analysis (discussing
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by slackenerny 17y ago
You may find the book "Computational Homology" by Mrozek and Kaczynski interesting (though not obviously useful). Available in the usual places. Years back I had a chance to finish a course by the author, but being a confused physicist, I s
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Yes exactly, but I don't have anything to say about specifics yet. This was on my radar from few years now, but slacking off as usual I got wakened only by recent buzzing around. In fact I'm still slacking off, being nowhere exceptional pro
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by slackenerny 17y ago
Right on time Rod, just as I started learning these discrete Morse stuff! Thanks for this one!
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by slackenerny 18y ago
> text steganography http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/snowdrop.tgz http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/simple-text-watermar...
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by slackenerny 18y ago
MetaPost would be the usual suspect, but he probably used his own Python-to-PostScript wrapper: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/piscript/docs/piscript.html . Recently many mathematicians I know are plotting with NodeBox which is a VJ softwar
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by slackenerny 18y ago
This is so much good of an idea. I remember seeing the exact same animations original poster linked to, no less than ten years ago. I recognize their visual form distincly, because of how they've set back my understanding when I was learnin
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by slackenerny 18y ago
Very nice showcase of a VJing and music composition framework in Scheme. Also depressing to watch traditional fragmentation that Scheme and Lisp brings to this area.
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by slackenerny 18y ago
You may register an account then, and upload what you see missing. Just like with YouTube. But with an Java app that would upload folders in batches. I did so back in september. At the time there was even some scheme in which uploader would
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by slackenerny 18y ago
Inspiring. Reminds me of old ways in doing cloud computing: EC2 : http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/ S3 : http://isec.pl/papers/juggling_with_packets.txt ; )
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by slackenerny 18y ago
Sun was borderline struggling for as long as I can remember, and to date survived anyways. Once there were even tougher times for them and it was then when they developed Solaris 10 and the Niagara processor. Shareholders were pissed nevert
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by slackenerny 18y ago
- normalized vectors are a succinct way to represent a direction in space, whether it be 1D, 2D, 3D, or any other D. I'll only add that they are called versors and one can read more about their magic in any material about quaternions.
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I think group is expanding lately also to include people who have nothing much to do with their time. While I agree with what PG said in this particular case, I think it should nevertheless be silently patched just in anticipation of furthe
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by slackenerny 18y ago
I don't want to get overly philosophical here on breakthrouh happening or not but I too think language structure may not be tied to or convey any particular meaning. Quine explored this much on philosophical grounds and then there is poetry
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by slackenerny 18y ago
Prime p (e.g. 5) occurs exactly k times in factors of n! . k being a sum from 1 to m of a sequence whose term is [n / p^m] ([] meaning taking inteer part) where m is such that p^m =< n that is m being the integer part of logarithm base
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by slackenerny 18y ago
Mathematics of music is a frequent guest topic of John Baez's This Weeks Finds in Mathematical Physics. Week #234 was one of the most interesting, referencing lots of work, including Tymoczko's : http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week234.html