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by theoh 8y ago
Saying the "only advantage" is space efficiency is definitely weird. Null-termination means that a string can't contain \0, which has both good and bad consequences. Maybe what the author means is that the technique of just r
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by theoh 8y ago
The people to talk to about this are architects and town planners. They tend to be acutely aware of cultural differences between different countries, to the point that it starts to be a problem (because cultural stereotyping comes into play
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by theoh 8y ago
There are context-specific problems to be solved in every city, but the idea is that an innovative design process can help, or should at least be considered. It's not reasonable to expect an instant universal solution (that kind of uni
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by theoh 8y ago
You're focusing too much on the particular spatial circumstances of this bridge (extended linear structure along a waterway). The article is clearly calling for appealing, well-designed, grade-separated cycling infrastructure, not a li
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by theoh 8y ago
Well, it depends on how you feel about "appropriating" the original vs. feeding it to a Markov chain. I don't think less code/no code is necessarily boring, nor would a more complex LSTM model of the music necessarily be
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by theoh 8y ago
Another way to make this endless would be to loop the original: it would be necessary to find a place near the end that can be imperceptibly spliced with a place near the beginning.
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by theoh 8y ago
That might work when the job is colorizing Hollywood productions, but for documentary photos, it's not going to be possible in most cases. You just won't have any leads at all about the origin of the garment, apart from whatever y
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by theoh 8y ago
The shape of e.g. a wooded area can be important for orientation when on foot. But really, maps are nothing but shapes (streets, waterways, coastlines) that constrain navigation on the ground, so it's difficult to make sense of your pr
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by theoh 8y ago
Something else interesting from a few years ago: a compression algorithm that's bijective. http://www3.sympatico.ca/mt0000/bicom/bicom.html It's similar in the sense that there's more than one poss
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by theoh 8y ago
The constraint programming part isn't the bit that makes the difference between a good and bad crossword. The difference is in the quality of the clues. Generating plausible 'cryptic' clues is probably well beyond the ability
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by theoh 8y ago
Manual crafts require nuanced involvement with tools and techniques. Typing on a keyboard or a touchscreen interface doesn't. If you don't believe that a skilled craftsperson, musician, etc., has a higher level of judgement and de
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by theoh 8y ago
It's a pretty controversial educational movement, because of its connections with Rudolf Steiner. There's plenty of info to be found online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
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by theoh 8y ago
This paper is referenced by the following more recent paper about actually simulating the effect: http://graphics.cs.yale.edu/site/sites/files/Wet.pdf
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by theoh 8y ago
But consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by theoh 8y ago
The argument could be made that compile-time processing is highly appropriate for the static inputs of a program, and, at the other extreme, obviously can't be applied to the dynamic inputs. (Terminology from https://en.wiki
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by theoh 8y ago
These pictures are almost certainly just inkjet prints, not paintings. The idea of AI-generated art is a bit like the concept of sex robots. Maybe in the distant future, it's something people will be able to take seriously. Right now i
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by theoh 8y ago
Tech expertise depends on a bandwagon effect to create sustainable pools of labour. It's very difficult for isolated individuals to kick-start a tech scene from scratch, even in a very large city, so it happens rarely.
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by theoh 8y ago
Yes. If you spend your whole life on one long multi-transfer bus journey, you'll end up with a gaussian. It's a bit less clear that gaussians should be used when e.g. fitting a coordinate to an astronomical feature, which might no
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by theoh 8y ago
It is impossible to catch more than one inbound bus on any given occasion, whereas any number of outbound buses might pass. BTW, on a slightly unrelated point, if there's no timetable, but the interval between buses is maintained relia
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by theoh 8y ago
OK, I get that you object to the blogger "surfacing" this book at all. More generally, though, a lot of people pay attention to value cues like the simple fact that something has been professionally published. With books, I'm
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by theoh 8y ago
The author of the blog post bought it based on a description in a catalog, so evidently it seemed promising enough at least to them, and by the same token, worth reporting on. So there's no mystery about why the blog author felt it was
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by theoh 8y ago
It's an oddity. How did it get published? How does the author manage to maintain a professional career? NB the person writing the blog had bought a copy, so it's effectively a warning—and a negative review. Nothing inexplicable a
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by theoh 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap
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by theoh 8y ago
Absolutely this. It's not a trait that should be measured on a spectrum; it's more like a consistent mode of interacting with the world, a pathological mechanism/system of functioning. It takes a clinician (or victim) some ti
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by theoh 8y ago
Everybody is looking for something different. I like Awodey's book. See also: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/370/good-books-and-... https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comment
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by theoh 8y ago
Briefly: verboseness, self-indulgence, a scattershot approach. It really shows that the notes not the battle-tested product of several years of teaching a course to undergrads, like Walters or Awodey's books are. (Admittedly, Walters&#
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by theoh 8y ago
Just another opinion on this: I don't think "Category Theory for Programmers" is that great from a pedagogical perspective. I get that its freely accessible, but like the "Haskell from First Principles" book, the qu
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by theoh 8y ago
Maybe this observation will be unwelcome, but that content exists because it has very broad appeal these days, especially among hipsters and the "bohemian bourgeois". Those aren't my terms. "Authenticity" is the wor
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In mechanical design, there is the related problem of how to make a system which has the minimum number of constraints while performing correctly: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-76-mult... A
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by theoh 8y ago
This is slightly tangential to paper airplane folding, but I strongly recommend Duncan Birmingham's YouTube channel ("The Pop-up Channel"): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx2M2bGHtXBszG6tuR_NIbQ Pop-up

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