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by teeja 17y ago
I like Lucida Grande for code with lotsa text. I didn't know about Consolas, which looks great for code.
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by teeja 17y ago
One vampire site I googled says "It is not a good idea to take more than one pint from a donor in a 56 day period." (Verifies with Wikipedia)
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by teeja 17y ago
The very name Frank Woolworth anagrams to 'fowl hornwort ka', suggesting a demonic tryst in search of immortality. Data suggests a Proctor & Gamble connection. We expect to verify this with 3-D analysis of data from New York's formerly
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by teeja 17y ago
Bank it and don't sweat it until you've got $250K lying around. Starting an IRA with part of it would be good ... but rewarding yourself is also good.
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by teeja 17y ago
That's way way better than leaving someone feeling like they've been thrown in the dumpster!
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by teeja 17y ago
Yet another article on superior machines that then rattle on and on about chess programs. Not news for chess, and no change for the rest of us.
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by teeja 17y ago
I found that indented languages were a giant PITA. Oh yeah, and I'd rather GOTO label than BREAK.
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by teeja 17y ago
When I click the "More" link and the page is expired, I'd rather have it go to the latest next page than have to backup and refresh the page. Could be a pref.
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by teeja 17y ago
Agreed. I'd have appreciated physics more if it had been taught with a more historical approach. When I asked the profs why, the general answer was 'takes too much time'. (I 'spect part of it is that history is a 'humanity' ... but also tha
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by teeja 17y ago
I'm guessing it was the word 'youtube' combined with 'educate'. (Youtube doesn't have much, uh, 'patina' for some of us.)
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by teeja 17y ago
1. I'm thinking CYC is an existing database that knows cups are dishes; 2. If the article points to what useful information it has learned, I didn't find it.
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by teeja 17y ago
I added a current course and instructor from a college website; when the system didn't know about either (it knew the school), I typed in the 'verify text' captcha number and it went to a new page asking for all the info again. The design i
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by teeja 17y ago
I was just reading yesterday that DARPA is having a hard time finding computer geeks. This sort of wretching, chicken-little stupidity might be one reason why. If any of these 'adults' had been paying attention in 9th-grade science class, t
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by teeja 17y ago
Kilometers to miles: multiply by 2*pi, move decimal left one place. About 1% error.
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by teeja 17y ago
It works. Search for "Santorum" on Bing.
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by teeja 17y ago
He responded to my son with a letter and signed drawing the same way. Way cool.
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by teeja 17y ago
I could argue that art consists of representing the world of human experience. That 'art' is right-brained, non-reasoning, 'intuitive'. There are many ways of representing the world, some of them 'better' at communicating one's intentions t
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by teeja 17y ago
Interesting ... hadn't seen much of that before. Once again I have to wonder why such articles ignore Lilienfield's work (from 20 years before) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Edgar_Lilienfeld and how he profited (if at all) from his
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by teeja 17y ago
Worth reading and learning from ... although, since our ears are analog, since human hearing is not science-complete, and since 'good reproduction' is very often a question of taste (whatever "warm" means ???), the statement "Only four para
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by teeja 17y ago
Obviously, since there are are files that no algorithm can compress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/ns.html
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by teeja 17y ago
I know where I'm retiring! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079219/
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by teeja 17y ago
The list was a lot shorter when I started: * Don't eat the dirt * Don't piss on the chief's tent (when he's home) * Don't sleep under the horse. * The brown pills are not specifically good.
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by teeja 17y ago
For one thing, it's made it hard for me to sit still for 10,000 word think pieces.
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by teeja 17y ago
Heck, they're probably not a democracy. And probably have no constitution or bill of rights. And probably haven't caught up with the 19th century. And probably disappear people left and right. Great role model.
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by teeja 17y ago
"California spends about $50,000 a year per inmate" On the surface, that number looks somewhat insane.
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by teeja 17y ago
More on Golden Ratio in math: Wolfram: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html Geometry: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/do_you_know/GoldenRatio.shtml which includes the beautiful identity φ : 1 = 1 : (φ - 1)
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by teeja 17y ago
As anyone who's been there knows, the great majority of teachers volunteer half the time they spend working anyway. Bashing unions is a popular right-wing ad hominem, but there are two equally recalcitrant partners in education equally to b
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by teeja 17y ago
It must be really aggravating spending 100 days breaking a long key, only to find a short one-time-pad message dropped into the middle of a long string full of 'neenerneenerneener!'.
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by teeja 17y ago
In the first two years I made (short pieces of) music, the things people liked best were those I threw together in an hour or two. It was almost uncannily reverse-proportional to time spent. Probably because it was songwriting, not composin
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by teeja 17y ago
Upvoted for the linked article (PDF) about horses/manure in the 1800s->1905 http://www.uctc.net/access/30/Access%2030%20-%2002%20-%20Hor... well worth reading for it's analysis of all the problems with horses that the CAR solved (and,

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