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by theoh 9y ago
Ive has some kind of charisma that makes his designs convincing. It's notable that everyone mentioned in that WSJ article (Bono, Foster, Serota) is a charismatic, persuasive leader. Ive's work is competent, in the tradition of Die
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The UK and Ireland are (currently) in the EU and it's not uncommon for English-speaking organizations/individuals with a particularly internationalist perspective to use the .eu domain.
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It is really unusual to find "parsing algorithm" and "direct isometries" in the same paper, so it's a bit of a genre-spanning publication. As the arxiv tags say, the key fields could be described as "algebraic
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by theoh 9y ago
Person who prefers gourmet restaurant food suggests that another person who always cooks at home has a limited appreciation of what's possible and overestimates their own cooking ability relative to the best chefs?
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by theoh 9y ago
When you want to fit a distribution to a star's image on the plate, normal does indeed seem a weird choice. But the point about multidimensional gaussians is that they are the only distribution that is maximally "ignorant" (m
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by theoh 9y ago
I'm partial to thinking about this with Max Weber's idea of "charismatic authority". The charismatic leader gives things away, is popular -- being in favour is what charisma is all about -- but in an extreme instance of
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by theoh 9y ago
Saw a lecture by Zeki (mentioned in the article) at an art college summer school last year. He showed "e to the i pi" and also a Ramanujan equation. Of course his results are that people see the elegance of e to the i pi but don&#
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by theoh 9y ago
From the article: "The buses that move out of Helsinki stay on the same line but only for a while, maybe a kilometer or two. Then they begin to separate, each number heading off to its own unique destination." So Helsinki is an ex
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by theoh 9y ago
There's no science that says any part of the Earth-human system "constantly moves to optimality". Like, literally any part . It's an out-of-control rollercoaster that we may or may not be able to steward to our liking.
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by theoh 9y ago
What exonerates Bach's music from being assessed by the same modern criteria? What if, what was, back then, known as "composing music" was what we would now, honestly, describe as a laughably narcissistic activity, comparable
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by theoh 9y ago
I'm somewhat convinced by the satirical "Bach Portrait" that makes him out to be pompous and plodding in life and in music. Maybe OT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtW7cu56MRs
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by theoh 9y ago
AFAIK, grid fins are made the way they are to circumvent the problems of supersonic shockwaves rendering conventional fins useless. So it's a different situation.
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The Science museum has a lot of 3D models from this period and later crystallographic research. Insulin, haemoglobin, myoglobin, DNA. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_your_visit/... (scroll down fo
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by theoh 9y ago
Trust me, reducing a typeface family to a parametric formula with continuous and valid/beautiful transitions between the various fonts, let alone weights, requires superhuman intelligence and effort. I'm claiming that the scope of
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by theoh 9y ago
The involvement of Metafont with parametric design doesn't necessarily mean that it's a sound typographic principle. As others have mentioned, professional font design is a business of total perfectionism and particularity: you ca
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by theoh 9y ago
Even the automated ones are dangerous to be close to, apparently. There's a characteristic type of snarl-up known as a "cobble" where white-hot steel rod flies everywhere: https://youtu.be/uxbsgWOjX5o
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by theoh 9y ago
Like with strategies for composing atonal music, almost any conceivable creative trick in writing was memorably tried in the 20th century. Texts that are one long sentence (Krasznahorkai), no punctuation, only punctuation (Koslowski), crazy
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by theoh 9y ago
It needs to be said that the psychiatric establishment is flawed or worse. As Foucault et al have documented, it started as little more than a freakshow of the mentally ill, and it is still a deeply unjust system globally. Nothing science h
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by theoh 9y ago
You're talking dismissively about art as if it's something about which anyone's casual opinion is equally valid. Conceptual art is an intellectual tradition, like most human activities, and you 're only revealing your ow
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by theoh 9y ago
All planets orbit the centre of mass of themselves and the local star, modulo interactions with other planets. The position of the centre of mass relative to the surface of the star is completely immaterial. NB for smaller bodies, Jupiter
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by theoh 9y ago
What about "Pocket PC"? I remember the Compaq IPaq having a high profile back then (2001). Edit: maybe a more valid example is the O2 XDA "Windows Mobile" phone/PDA (2003)
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Norbert Wiener (of cybernetics fame) made a distinction between Manichaean devils and Augustinian devils-- essentially between evil as a force opposed to good vs evil as merely a lack of goodness. Essentially the distinction is between misc
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by theoh 9y ago
Yes, the idea that raw ascii or unicode text is somehow an adequate replacement for the capabilities of the printed page is completely ridiculous, but here we are discussing it. (And CSV, as recommended in the linked article, is a poorly-de
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Any arrangement of an afterlife for a rig became a liability...
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It sounds like a way to take larger simulation steps by linearising the movement of projected points on shadow outlines. I'm guessing a bit, but the idea of figuring out how to take larger steps is an established trick for speeding up
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I'm talking about the level of e.g. programming language implementation. A lambda needs to be assigned an id, for example, but it's not a reference that the user can manipulate. It's an implementation detail, as are surrogate
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But, to state the obvious, anonymous items in computing (e.g. anonymous functions, or untitled/unaddressed draft emails etc.) generally need to be assigned an id for the software to keep track. The practice of avoiding natural keys and
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by theoh 9y ago
Best article I know about the rectangularity issue is this, by Philip Steadman: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/13217/1/13217.pdf
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“The Compositional Possibilities Are Endless” by Else Marie Pade(thewire.co.uk)
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Since I've got a stray downvote, let me clarify: I'm pro-FP. Purity amounts to referential transparency which is uncomplicated. Haskell and similar languages have the character of arithmetic expressions (no side effects) evaluated

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