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by theoh 8y ago
The basic premise of the article is that systems programming=irrelevant bloat and abstraction while data reduction=definite purpose and utility People writing python notebooks to do data analysis are probably fairly comparable to the scient
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by theoh 8y ago
It's a standard expression. Googling the phrase "papers of" brings up mostly hits for archives of documents with the description "Papers of <name>" where <name> is someone noteworthy.
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by theoh 8y ago
It's handy that the "empty sum " (zero) happens to be a palindrome, so it can just work to fill any number of empty slots.
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by theoh 8y ago
First line of the Wikipedia page is fine: "In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input." Scientific American's typical reader sur
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by theoh 8y ago
"Hard to analyze" is a property nonlinear systems have. It's not the meaning of the term.
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by theoh 8y ago
There's also the class of extreme STOL aircraft that includes the Wilga (Polish) and Storch (German). They would be perfect for this, but obviously they weren't present in that situation.
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by theoh 8y ago
What do you think they stripped before dumping the aircraft? Is there modular, compact stuff like radios? Or what? No time to remove an engine, presumably, even if that was something that could happen fairly routinely during maintenance.
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by theoh 8y ago
The wealth of a country is a question of what resources it has, public and private, not how they are distributed. Saying that "everyone" is broke misses the point that it's inequality that is getting worse.
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by theoh 8y ago
Inequality is one thing, but the US is still a wealthy country.
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Yes, but the point is surely that "complications" are not what "design", as an activity, is about. Watch complications are about showing off technical expertise (for the maker) and wealth (for the wearer). That has very
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by theoh 8y ago
See also Adolf Portmann's strange speculations on symmetry and asymmetry: https://books.google.ie/books?id=wzhqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 extract from that page: https://imgur.com/a/IAB12T5 "Accord
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by theoh 8y ago
It seems pretty clear that Knuth was not talking about instruction-level optimization, but about those activities/features that came to be known as metaprogramming, reflection, refactoring etc. I imagine he was thinking about human-dir
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by theoh 8y ago
London did not vote "purely" in favour of remain. In fact, 40% of voters in London voted for Brexit. A lot of people have been romanticizing London as being liberal, multicultural, too worldly and dynamic to fall for Brexit. But 4
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by theoh 8y ago
Yes, there are no possible return values. But there is a unique vacuous total function because no return values are ever needed. A function can be considered as a set of ordered pairs, one for each value in the domain. Since there are no va
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by theoh 8y ago
Northern Ireland is & was comparatively technically "cultured" (see e.g. Kelvin) and I think Jocelyn Bell Burnell is talking more about being a woman than being from an alien culture. I went to Cambridge (disastrously) from Du
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by theoh 8y ago
Not making fun of you at all, it's just that Velasquez >> Archimboldo, right?
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by theoh 8y ago
You haven't told us how the Archimboldo paintings made you feel. Like you were made out of vegetables?
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by theoh 8y ago
It's not named for the security variety of hacker.
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by theoh 8y ago
Isn't it very important for machine learning?
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by theoh 8y ago
You're not the only one in the comments on this article who has asserted that some pieces in 6/8 have a different pattern of stresses. So I'm totally prepared to hear about it, even if basic music theory doesn't cover th
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by theoh 8y ago
The denominator is not as important as the numerator. (The Wikipedia page on time signatures makes that clear) One thing about 6/8 that is not literally communicated by the notation is the rhythm: the first and fourth beats of the bar
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by theoh 8y ago
With Erdős I wonder if there was a bit of this involved http://induecourse.ca/absent-mindedness-as-dominance-behavio... I've never heard his eccentricity attributed to wartime trauma (obviously I'll always be open
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by theoh 8y ago
No. There are potential regulatory principles here that have nothing to do with the customer's demands. You sound like you are assuming a free-market, free-enterprise situation. That is not reality. There are hundreds of years of regu
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by theoh 8y ago
The article says it's karst. (Sinkholes occur when an already-significant underground cavity, typically formed by water dissolving the rock, gets close to the surface and the roof falls in.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by theoh 8y ago
Having experienced this: I think the word "conservative" doesn't quite capture the severity of detaining someone for mental health reasons. It has been argued that when someone is detained on mental health grounds, this is eq
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by theoh 8y ago
Apparently you just avoid naming the other term (if my rudimentary scanning of this German webpage is correct): https://www.sapereaudepls.de/2018/01/20/goodman-paradoxon/ Blün is even in the Wiktionary:
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by theoh 8y ago
Blün?
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by theoh 8y ago
I didn't downvote the comment in question, but to me it seemed blatantly curmudgeonly. I checked out fermienrico's posting history, and one thing that jumped out was a submission of a "design thinking" video with the vid
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by theoh 8y ago
Come on, mechanical drawing and 'artistic' drawing are totally different skills. The best technicians, with the highest level of mechanical drawing training and experience, wouldn't be able to draw a portrait. RISD asks appli
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by theoh 8y ago
The form of the T-38 was apparently determined by Lee Begin at Northrop. Who, you ask? Well, good luck finding information about him on the Internet.

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