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by theoh 10y ago
This may not be authoritative enough, but I found John Levine's "Linkers and Loaders" to be a very informative guide to the general concepts of linking, including the various architectures like ELF and COM. http://
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by theoh 10y ago
Heh, that reminds me of Yaron Minsky's talk about Caml, in which he stresses the need for absolute correctness of software when you are a market maker or arbitrageur, at risk of your high-throughput trading engine going off the rails..
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by theoh 10y ago
The mathematician Michael Harris wrote a very good even-handed review of Fashionable Nonsense. He finds possible value in the philosophy that it mocks, and points out the general crudeness of the authors' attitude and approach. I think
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by theoh 10y ago
I think there's probably some original wisdom in most taboos. Drugs are a clear case of something that can seriously threaten sanity and at the same time are exploited by the unscrupulous (dealers, cult leaders, etc.) Alcohol is a drug
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by theoh 10y ago
Hmm, yes, I can see a product idea here: Klein bottle waste baskets. When your waste basket is nonorientable, life becomes much simpler. Everything is both inside and outside the trash.
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by theoh 10y ago
It's more noteworthy that very small works can be easier to study on screen, and then there's obviously the advantage of a total absence of contention for the physical space directly in front of the print/painting. Rothko&#x2
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by theoh 10y ago
There was a simple X application called "xdu" from the 90s that did this job adequately. At the other end of the practicality scale was the SGI tool fsn, recreated in open source by this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by theoh 10y ago
Actually it seems like dang was making a moralistic point that I'm not sure about. Sometimes a suggestive, catchy but perhaps uninformative title is linkbait (and should be replaced), but sometimes such a title is not "bait"
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by theoh 10y ago
I think there's a crucial legal notion of "uttering" forgeries as currency, but other stricter laws do exist to protect currencies against illegal replication. AFAIK.
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by theoh 10y ago
That is a very interesting book. Two things I remember: the statement that by the end of the engineering effort "everyone was exhausted and nobody was really in control" (paraphrasing slightly from memory) and a curious interview
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by theoh 10y ago
Even working with the specific material of film header is surprisingly common in experimental/artists film. See e.g. Guy Sherwin "At The Academy" (using standard Academy header) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a
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by theoh 10y ago
I'm sure I've read a jokey guide to succeeding as a CS grad student that tells you to do exactly this, but tongue-in-cheek. Maybe someone else will recall the URL.
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by theoh 10y ago
Another possible aspect of this, which complicates in some ways what you said in your comment, is that the earlier special pardon for Turing was, to my mind at least, a patronizing idea that cast him as an unworldly "innocent". Go
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by theoh 10y ago
Is there really an interesting question here, though? The art world has for years had no difficulty trading in immaterial works of art, or, for example the right to exhibit a performance. In the case of something simple that anyone could re
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by theoh 10y ago
It's spurious to attribute it to Irishness. More to do with Eminent Victorians than any fantasy of Ireland as a distributed global village.
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by theoh 10y ago
He also said "Most people would rather die than think; many do." In other words, not all human cognition is "thought", for Russell. So I don't think he's making any claim that implies total absence of computati
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by theoh 10y ago
There's also this, from a similar milieu: "good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness about it which at times makes it seem almost like a live teacher . . . and a perfect notation would be a substitute for thought." Bert
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by theoh 10y ago
You're right. "Polynesian Dead Reckoning" doesn't appear to be a thing at all. Maybe the GP was referring to the "cold reading"-like ingenuity of their navigational techniques. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by theoh 10y ago
Yes. Many artists have the skills necessary to become great advocates for the user because they have developed a healthily individualistic attitude. I'd say artists are a bit less conscientious, in general, than CS graduates, which mak
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by theoh 10y ago
It's nonsense to say that there's no way to make a perfect representation that's not imbued with personal style. Many mediocre contemporary realist painters achieve this all the time, as you might expect from the definition o
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by theoh 10y ago
Yeah, actually that page has a Wikipedia graph on it which looks exactly like a spiky sun. I'd like to see more work like the paper from a few years ago which ran PageRank and HITS on Wikipedia to discover the most central pages. The P
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by theoh 10y ago
Sometimes the matrix, like for example the adjacency matrix for Wikipedia internal links, will be very sparse. Another reason to use relations rather than an inefficient, mostly empty implicit data structure. That Wikipedia adjacency matrix
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by theoh 10y ago
Actually, if you consider each edge as an entity, you can represent multiple edges using the relation incident(Node, Edge). This is analogous to using an incidence matrix. It also works for hypergraphs.
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by theoh 10y ago
This may be a tangent, but I feel like pointing out that I, for one, have recently become more aware of the fact that a graph is really just a binary relation. This is not discussed much in all the talk about social networks. It's alwa
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by theoh 10y ago
It's octagonal in plan. Gems are sometimes cut to have that shape, though I don't think anyone would associate it with diamonds.
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by theoh 10y ago
Well, speaking for myself, definitely not the Futamura projections. Way too high a level of abstraction to remember.
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by theoh 10y ago
I didn't mean to comment on the honesty or otherwise, those were just the paragraphs that contained the key info: PR firms feed valid facts to journalists. If a news outlet so much as carries an article about a given topic, they are ex
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by theoh 10y ago
No, but it may have come to them via a press release. Paul Graham on PR from 2005: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html "PR is not dishonest. Not quite. In fact, the reason the best PR firms are so effective is pre
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by theoh 10y ago
To generalize a bit from your comment: basic education probably shouldn't follow a strict "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory ) Of course it'
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by theoh 10y ago
From the text of the article: "Jamnitzer’s studies possess a captivating artistic merit. With the manipulation, repetition, and layering of basic shapes, they seem like distant precursors to Minimalism and its concerns." '60

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