tgvaughan

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by tgvaughan 6y ago
I have a quest and just used a handle in the Oculus account creation. There was no demand for a real name at all. So yes, it's a big change.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Blame the system. There can be a lot of pressure to make research accessible. Although generally laudable, I think this can backfire when applied to more abstract topics.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Definitely agree with this. Although doing anything else would be way harder (impossible?), straight up comparison of prices after currency conversion is really only of use to tourists.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Author of elpher here. If you were running under MacOS you were probably hitting the restriction that GUI Emacs explicitly forbids the display of coloured Unicode characters on that platform.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
So does elpher. But you don't need a dedicated client to see the raw server response, all you need to really do is use something like 'gnutls-cli hostname -p 1965 --no-ca-verification' and then enter the full gemini URL once
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
The second edition is CC-BY-NC-SA. (This is indicated inside the cover of the print edition.) [Edited to add NC.]
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
I love what I've read of this book, but found reading the HTML version on the MIT website a bit of a chore. Here's my attempt at applying Andres Raba's wonderful SICP layout ( https://sarabander.github.io/sicp
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
I always thought it would be amazing to have something like this for composing music.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
It never occurred to me that this could be the reason for dark mode blurriness, but it makes sense intuitively. (Think you mean "constricts" rather than "dilates" though.)
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
I spend a small amount of time programming in Scheme as a hobby, and honestly I would find the presence of a single stack frame resulting from a "recursive" call like this no more confusing than having a single stack frame contain
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
So is the blog "Programming Praxis". Its author has been posting short and interesting programming exercises at least once a week, but often more, for years.
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Sure, but people who are using free Gmail accounts (not you, of course) have limited recourse if they are locked out. If you're paying for something directly at least you can expect to be treated like a customer. For me there are two d
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Funnily enough for something that's made such a huge impact on my life, I never managed to get Jonesforth to compile either. It's such a good read that it hardly matters whether you actually run it. (Instead I used it as the bas
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
There are already 27 genomes on GISAID. Very little diversity at this stage though, so phylodynamic analyses are more noise than signal. https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-betacov-app/
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
It's not an accident: Hofstadter and the translators put a lot of work into preserving the wordplay across translations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach#Tra...
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
I too am part of a well funded university, arguably one of the richest in Europe, and we were recently informed that it's possible we won't have a Nature subscription this year. Of course the reasons are complex, and there'l
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Ever since moving to eshell+tramp, all of these persistence tools, however beautifully designed, somehow strike me as solving the wrong problem.
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Do any of these incumbents stand to gain financially from IPv4 scarcity?
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Aren't those two things essentially identical, at least as far as the resulting wavefront goes?
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
I think this was the first line of the forth in the library of an older version of jonesforth ( https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-reposit... ), but now I can only find it in my port: : \
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
I agree! I found jonesforth's literate source so exciting that I went off and implemented FORTH 83 in Julia. Sadly though, Jonesforth doesn't implement create/does...
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Not only would it be hard, it would also remain incomplete - there are more than two English-speaking countries out there...
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
I always think of Maximum Likelihood.
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Living populations never stop evolving.
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by tgvaughan 7y ago
Or allow users to specify precisely how to weight the results? (Popular with linkers, best matching results first, etc.)
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by tgvaughan 8y ago
The R core team and thousands of package developers share their work with you under the terms of the GPL2. Isn't it reasonable that they expect the same from you?
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by tgvaughan 8y ago
True, but SunVox is so much more than just a tracker. In my experience with (PC) trackers they rely mostly on modifying pre-recorded samples. SV on the other hand allows you to chain together a crazy array of synth modules to produce sounds
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Google gives Wikimedia millions(wired.com)
207 points by tgvaughan 8y ago|99 comments
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by tgvaughan 8y ago
I still love using MetaPost.
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by tgvaughan 8y ago
Metropolis-Hastings (aka Markov chain Monte Carlo). Without this very simple (in principle) algorithm and its many descendants, much of modern applied Bayesian statistics would be impossible.

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