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811.
by theoh 9y ago
Very interesting list of links. This is such a good topic for popularization because of its visual and concrete aspects. (e.g. Papert and Turkle's idea of the "revaluation of the concrete" http://www.papert.org&#x2
812.
by theoh 9y ago
But since Haskell of course compiles to C or C--, it obviously doesn't follow that you can't implement purity in an impure language -- just not at the level of the typical metacircular interpreter beloved of FP people. I'm
813.
by theoh 9y ago
I think Dudley's attitude is regrettable. He uses the word "evil" in reference to the incorrect ideas they have, and the time and money wasted by mathematicians in replying to the cranks. He is more concerned with laughing at
814.
by theoh 9y ago
This article would seem more generous if it sketched a proof of the impossibility (using field extensions). Since it was worth proving for the first time in the mid 19th C I don't think it's appropriate to make fun of mid 20th C f
815.
by theoh 9y ago
A little goes a long way, though... Having done a CS degree and an art degree myself, I appreciate the rigor of the CS mentality but it definitely cannot be successfully transplanted into the art scene, at least not into the public discours
816.
by theoh 9y ago
Not normally distributed? Why would they be? For a "random" shuffle you would want a uniform distribution -- each permutation of the cards being equally likely. Can't think what bias could possibly consistently distort a rand
817.
by theoh 9y ago
Apparently he knew Tartaglia, who was a figure of the type you have in mind...
818.
by theoh 9y ago
Provenance is important to some people.
819.
by theoh 9y ago
That distinction is very familiar to me. Forgeries are pastiches. Leaving behind the business of painting, a lot of art these days -- performance, conceptual --would be equally difficult (or easy) to forge because it communicates a particul
820.
by theoh 9y ago
One vendor of those optimization tools is Jeppesen, which about ten years ago bought up two previously independent companies in the sector, SBS (New York) and Carmen Systems (in Gothenburg, Sweden).
821.
by theoh 9y ago
The "worthless" thing that's being protected is human life. The idea of sending exotic signals with dramatic structures was just a brainstorming exercise that gets a lot of publicity because it seems exciting. But there'
822.
by theoh 9y ago
The worldwide nuclear industry does not exist at the behest of some "let's go to Mars" lobby...
823.
by theoh 9y ago
Nitrogen makes up the largest part (80%) of breathable air, and the body just ignores it. It's the lack of oxygen that knocks you out.
824.
by theoh 9y ago
I don't know where you got the idea that quantifying something fixes it for all time. Numbers can change. Measures of inter-rater reliability can be applied to multiple ratings over time by the same person (why not?)
825.
by theoh 9y ago
"Introspection" is not usually associated with standing up for yourself or your needs. It just means looking inward, which does require that you not be run off your feet taking care of others, but I've never heard it used t
826.
by theoh 9y ago
Can you give us an Imgur link? A lot of people recognize more fonts than you might expect.
827.
by theoh 9y ago
I don't know about SV interviews, but there are ways of quantifying this kind of unreliability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_reliability
828.
by theoh 9y ago
In fact, I think the data format ("sequence of bits") is actually something totally unrelated to the type system, which deals in an abstract idea of types. Type-checking doesn't get involved with encodings of values.
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by theoh 9y ago
Royalty in the UK would presumably mean just the members of the royal family, which has a fuzzy boundary. The aristocracy is a much larger group, obviously.
830.
by theoh 9y ago
There's good information available on the early 20th C concrete tugs built in Britain which that article glosses over. Three are visible near the mouths of various Irish and English rivers. http://www.worldnavalships.com&#x2
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by theoh 9y ago
You must mean "false" not "farce". I can't see how such claims could be considered farcical.
832.
by theoh 9y ago
Looked into this a bit more. It seems like the debate comes down to "shoebox" vs. "vineyard": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineyard_style https://live.stanford.edu/blog/january
833.
by theoh 9y ago
That's equivalent to calculating the "straight skeleton", which is mentioned in the article as being among the published solutions, but too slow and error-prone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_ske
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by theoh 9y ago
"Beside being absolutely hideous on the outside, there is no way that hall has good acoustics." The architects are the Swiss practice Herzog and de Meuron. While your criticisms of the acoustics may be totally valid, it's a f
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by theoh 9y ago
For surface objects, there is at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_exposure_dating
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by theoh 9y ago
Aldine typefaces are sometimes called Garalde (a portmanteau of Garamond and Aldus). So it's a classification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox-ATypI_classification#Garal... As far as cursive typewriter fonts go,
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by theoh 9y ago
Thinking of something like Halide, which splits the program into a algorithm part and an execution schedule: there may be productive ways to factorize "one-text-file" programming conventions into multiple aspects written in differ
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by theoh 9y ago
In the GP's defense, the idea that great art will inevitably now be reduced to templates for style transfer algorithms is not too far away from Google's idea that scanned Google Books will serve as fodder for a future AI, i.e. the
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by theoh 9y ago
The Guardian ran an entertaining no-holds-barred review of his book "Worst. Person. Ever." when it came out 4 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/25/worst-person-e...
840.
by theoh 9y ago
Optimization implies "teleonomy", the idea that there's a goal toward which evolution is working, however obscure to us. The interesting question IMHO is whether such a goal exists, somehow expressed or implied by the laws of

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