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by svat 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! That matches what I've read from other sources. Sounds like an educational experience indeed… a lot of things we take for granted today.
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> Porting TeX / LaTeX to a Pyramid was super educational, plus a fascinating insight into the mind of Donald Knuth. This is very interesting; have you written more about the experience somewhere, or do you remember any more about
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See "The Gita of Robert Oppenheimer" by James Hijiya, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 144 (2) (June 2000): https://web.archive.org/web/20131126020921/http://www.amphil...
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Thank you! And hope there was nothing in my comments that came off the wrong way. A few more comments, since you seem so receptive. :-) • I do understand why you wouldn't want to have bothered to write a tutorial (it's too much wo
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Thank you, that was educational! At the time I'd have been happy with just getting the data out, so to encourage others, here's a simpler version of the query: https://w.wiki/3x8t Short version: SELECT ?awar
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> [Scraping] is pretty generic, but SPARQL is hardly a proprietary query language - other things use it. If what you're into is obtaining data, sparql might more generically apply than [scraping] would. It really depends on what you
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This is a great post, which also happens to serve as a good illustration of the "curse of knowledge" and the typical blind-spots of enthusiasts. Consider the timeline of events: • The blog post on scraping Wikipedia ( https:/
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The existing ways of putting math on the web are all already here too, and have been for a long time. Apart from the old way of generating images by running TeX (still used by Wikipedia, for instance), both of the most common libraries used
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> the serifs in Computer Modern are thicker than the thin stems of letterforms. 1. Is this really true? I went to the bookshelf and pulled out three Knuth books, and at least to my eye, the serifs don't look noticeably thicker than
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Not many people realize that the literature you mention is the field of "analysis of algorithms", which is a sub-field of (or, in practice, somewhat different from) computational complexity theory / theory of algorithms. Robe
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With or without YouTube Premium you can opt out: if you go to https://adssettings.google.com/ (and signed in, as you would be if you're a YouTube Premium user) and click on "Advanced", there's a checkbox
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Why would memory get corrupted in this example? To put it differently: if the code didn't have the `if index < array.len()` check, clearly things would be different. How would you describe this distinction, other than "memory s
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No amount of empirical data is ever "good enough" for the mathematical standard of proof. (It may be enough for mathematicians to "believe" something in some informal sense, but not enough to consider it "proved&quo
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It's not clear there's any "blaming someone else with a clearly different storyline" here. The storylines seem to agree almost down to the lowest detail, even to the ascription of "blame": both accounts agree t
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Well, counting now, the "summary" part of the comment is 329 words long (and there are another 312 words in the comment), while the posted article here is 900 words long (the original one was nearly 18000 words). But consider that
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The "I don't want to break the machine" part from the book was mainly about alcohol, and only secondarily about LSD: > I started to walk into the bar, and I suddenly thought to myself, "Wait a minute! It's the mi
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Summary: - In 1997, Michael Pollan wrote an essay, a section of which was originally "about making opium tea from his home-grown poppies and drinking the tea". He had some "fear that the Drug Enforcement Administration would
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Yes that's mostly it for such old elevators (see "Elevator algorithm" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elevator&oldid=10... ), except: - The elevator has a "home floor" (the lobby&
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Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming has, in its first volume, a lengthy section on simulating an elevator. It is a single regular elevator (nothing "special" going on as in the post here), but even so, as he trie
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This is really cool; thank you! It was a bit hard at first to understand what was going on (and that the page was still loading), but after find the docs at https://pingtype.github.io/docs/docs.html I understand better
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Translations are not made every day; one has to pick from what is available (and in the public domain at that, for a website like this), and the translation used here is evidently the one published in 1922 in 21 volumes as being by "Fa
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What are some other websites/resources like this? That is, ones that make a text easier to read, either with parallel translation or word lookup etc? Listing the ones I know (in no particular order, just a list I had collected a while
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Oh yes of course, not every sentence would need to be rewritten multiple times (some may even have come out great the first time!); I think the meaning was just that he went through so many rounds of revising the entire book, end to end, th
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An interesting approach to refactoring; unfortunately I can't say I've ever tried it (but the author of the post has!). (There was a mention of P. G. Wodehouse from Paul Graham's latest post and ensuing discussion https:&#x2
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The P.G. Wodehouse Method Of Refactoring (2008)(basildoncoder.com)
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Anyone can state an etymology with more certainty than warranted; that doesn't mean the etymology is actually known. The page you quoted says: > The word Puzzle comes from pusle “bewilder, confound” which is a frequentive of the
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Play with the fonts here: http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ — for each one, there's a webpage which lets you enter your own text, and also has some information about that typeface and related mathematics. These fonts
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That's the initial page that clicking on the submitted link redirects to. The back button seems to work in a standard way for navigation with the webpage itself (as it's just a single html file; it's Tiddlywiki after all); it
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“Hirschman didn’t wait for intellectual exile: he proudly gathered up his followers and led them into the wilderness himself. Unfortunately, they perished there.” — Paul Krugman quoted in the article. Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loy
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I'm not sure whether you replied on the wrong discussion or were replying just to the title, but the post is an interesting discussion/profile about Albert O. Hirschman (forgotten economist and author of "Exit, Voice, and Lo

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