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by theoh 9y ago
This is similar to the rainbow table attack on password hashes. The defense against that is to use a (public) salt when computing the hash. Maybe something similar will work here, though I'm not clear about the details of your notion o
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by theoh 9y ago
Reminds me of the postscript to this Ben Krasnow video (from about 13:45) which discusses an analogous effect in a circuit using a capacitor. https://youtu.be/xyMH8wKK-Ag
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by theoh 9y ago
I'm not sure "violate" is the right word, given Landin's objectives. If the where-clause offends you, use a let-clause instead?
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by theoh 9y ago
Haskell is a direct descendent of ISWIM via David Turner's SASL. Landin, however, lost interest in software in the 70s. There's a lot of biographical info, including videos of him reminiscing, to be found online.
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by theoh 9y ago
The article is specifically about terms of art as used within the discipline. So it's fine for it to be prescriptive.
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by theoh 9y ago
Maybe try appreciating a grid painting by Agnes Martin. If that makes sense to you as something beautiful (calm, orderly), go back to Rothko and see if it feels a bit sublime (clouded, heavy, dense). This is not about ideas.
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by theoh 9y ago
> If someone cannot handle themselves, maybe they shouldn't be given a subsidized unit in a fancy expensive city You need to solve the problem with your plan where the person who gets labelled "cannot handle themselves" is
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by theoh 9y ago
Leading spaces induce this style of formatting. It is difficult to read on mobile.
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by theoh 9y ago
Hmmm, maybe file with art critic Mike Pepi's "Asynchronous! On the sublime administration of the everyday" http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59798/asynchronous-on-the-s...
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by theoh 9y ago
If we're talking about creative work, the state doesn't really have any authority in deciding what's adequately creative. A aiff file full of random or nearly random data sounds like a plausible form for a creative work to ta
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by theoh 9y ago
Yes, it is literally analogous to choosing points from the set of intersections of lines of integral latitude and longitude, which is not what you want. The specialness of the Gaussian has been mentioned here before: https://news
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by theoh 9y ago
What's wrong with copyrighting a particular concrete example of white noise? A particular string of randomly generated bits? The fact that an algorithm just hears generic white noise is the algorithm's problem.
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by theoh 9y ago
Presumably, for a certain important class of application, CPU is not used "densely", i.e. continually. Instead it's used intermittently, like a gas rather than a solid... Hence compressibility. Such applications are far from
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by theoh 9y ago
What's special about sources of randomness? Would you have the same intuition about a patented process for creating physical objects?
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by theoh 9y ago
Previous, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 Neal Gershenfeld's book on mathematical modelling (from 15 years ago) mentions that points i
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by theoh 9y ago
And, quick, what's the type of (.) (.) (.) (.) (.) How about (.) (.) (.) (.) (.) (.)
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by theoh 9y ago
See also this art project, which relates the fictional astral city of Nosso Lar ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosso_Lar ) to Brasilia: http://www.jonasstaal.nl/projects/nosso-lar-brasilia/
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by theoh 9y ago
You might find this interesting: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/ssafun.pdf
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by theoh 9y ago
Aargh. Life doesn't proceed by proof. Not all that counts can be counted. William James (paraphrased): "James acknowledges that in our scientific age, there is something dubious about the voluntaristic view that, in some circumsta
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by theoh 9y ago
Not certification of digital art, digital certification of art. Some people are excited about this. It is just a DRM thing, transfer of rights, records of provenance etc. Makes sense if you think of art as an asset, which is kind of a phili
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by theoh 9y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
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by theoh 9y ago
The ING paper continues "The fact that they [banks] do not (yet) provide custodian functions for Bitcoin (e.g. for regulatory reasons) does not mean that the general public would not need or want those services for cryptocurrency. I
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by theoh 9y ago
Blockchain-based currencies are not an acceptable replacement for the existing monetary system because of the extreme brittleness of their mechanisms. You really are completely on your own when it comes to things like getting hacked, losing
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by theoh 9y ago
That's interesting. I see the HAYP art organization is mostly made up (at the top, i.e. the curators) of people who were brought up in Western Europe/North America. Whether what they are bringing is really valuable must be difficu
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by theoh 9y ago
Radicals would say that it's politically problematic to expect individuals to take up any slack with their own resilience/fortitude. Telling people that they must learn to bear their suffering, rather than receive substantial supp
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by theoh 9y ago
The example of summation is really what "fold" in functional programming languages does. Pure functional programming is close to the idea of mathematical notation, particularly in the sense that "equational reasoning" is
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by theoh 9y ago
You're right, I should have said "usually inherent". But it's a major reason for using quaternions. While you stress the case of gimbal lock occuring within a single rotation, which is typically due to the use of Euler a
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by theoh 9y ago
Euler angles (or an equivalent) are implicit in the the way rotation matrices work.
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by theoh 9y ago
Quaternions represent 3D rotations in a way which avoids the drawbacks of Euler angles. See "gimbal lock".
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by theoh 9y ago
That's all well and good in the abstract. In practice, literary culture has long been notorious for cliqueyness and big egos (even narcissism). Affirming general propositions of the form "just because X, Y is not necessarily true&

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