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by theoh 8y ago
Here's a page which contains some authoritative discussion of the Plan 9 attitude to shared libraries: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ Your "most people I know" comment is bizarre
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That is a nice Grasshopper project. This application of Plateau's laws is limited to an idealised and very regular geometric situation, though. More general problems can be solved with the Surface Evolver, which, like Frei Otto's
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Recursive Internetwork Architecture (RINA)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Cons/lists don't have to be involved at all: a Set type could be made to work for many applications. I've observed several smart people struggling at the outset with the connection between recursively defined lists and nondet
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See also http://socks-studio.com/2014/10/22/gordon-matta-clarks-reali...
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by theoh 8y ago
The author of the blog is Remy Sharp. He was first involved with these projects at CERN in 2013, it looks like: http://line-mode.cern.ch/interviews/ He is a web developer. "My role was the coding part. I have a lo
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Hmmm, I think there is some subtlety here in terms of the way an empty list is used in Haskell. This paper by Wadler from the 80s (predating monads) discusses the functional lore of the combinator approach to parsing, and it significantly l
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by theoh 8y ago
> Blogging seems to be an unhealthy activity for physicists. This kind of observation is valuable, I think, even if it's only statistically true. Certain disciplines encourage practitioners to work within conventions and with capabi
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Even Paul Graham thinks voting rings are a problem, to the extent that he said (somewhere, I can't remember where) that a substantial part of the HN codebase is dedicated to measures against spam, voting rings, and other abuses. Steps
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The lambda calculus has got to be one of the worst notations in CS. It's taught as if it was a timeless given, when the reality is that the men who defined it didn't care about how easy it would be to read or learn. They were only
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by theoh 8y ago
There are serious debates about these issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing... Your stated confidence that there was no difference in the way Germany and Japan were viewed in terms of rac
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Let's be clear on this: the store is not located in Cambridge because there is a particularly large untapped market there. It is located in Cambridge because of the Pi's ties to the city. Maybe the huge success of the device means
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by theoh 8y ago
There are serious critiques of economic theory out there, which tend to say that kind of thing. But if you compared these notes to the notes for a college level physics course, you would find a similar level of abstraction, idealized models
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"Tasks which require thought are exhausting and qualitatively different from routine tasks. Is there a better way to coordinate the work environment of "knowledge workers" to make their lives easier?"
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Compare Switzerland: while it's not in the EEA, there are extensive agreements between Switzerland and the EU which ensure regulatory alignment on the issues that matter. There's no way to have Schengen-like free movement without
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Norway's membership of the EEA is a prerequisite for its Schengen membership.
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by theoh 8y ago
> While an important model, the core results of control theory are without a doubt stability criterions. I'm guessing you mean "while they (kalman filters) are an important model...". What you've written involves a da
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by theoh 8y ago
Hmmm, is the Pale Blue Dot single-pixel sample of Earth really "full disc" in the sense that the face of the Earth is fully illuminated, not a crescent? Anyway, this text is clear: "Alternately known as Triana, Goresat, or by
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by theoh 8y ago
Do you have a link to the earlier Apollo 8 images? The second article is about the ability of the DSCOVR satellite to capture full-disc images of the Earth (no mosaicing). "Other images of Earth were created using digital stitching tec
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm an artist myself, so I said "almost certainly" to qualify what I believe is an almost universal opinion. I don't think category theory diagrams on the wall of a gallery would fly as visual art, though I can imagine
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by theoh 8y ago
> this idea that text is not visual is weird. It's worth noting, though, that text is a serial or linear way of encoding information through symbols. In that respect it inherits its structure from spoken language. The significant vi
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The article is not about taking photos, it's about how relationships are mediated and affected by (e.g.) someone's Instagram feed. It comes down to an essentially Sherry Turkle-esque observation: when a relationship is mediated th
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by theoh 8y ago
You seem to be saying that if the scheme somehow becomes more successful than expected, they stand to go into the red. Maybe so. But this is surely the case whatever source the "excess" or unexpected returns come from. If you&#x27
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by theoh 8y ago
How does the Oregon program "know" if a returned bottle is bona fide or fraudulent (from out of state)? I don't see how substituting units of a fungible quantity, which identical bottles seem to be, can have the consequences
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by theoh 8y ago
I was drawing attention to a possible "branch prediction error" subsequent to the word "store". I don't have any problem with the sentence in its context, I'm just trying to respond to the viewpoints expressed
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Here's a re-punctuation that fixes the "etail, a cultural treasure" problem, which is arguably worse than the exclamation marks. > In the arms race for the most UNIQUE, most AUTHENTIC store currently underway — when only-i
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See these multiple independent MIT research results (which happen to be mentioned in an Atlantic article linked to by another commenter): http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/cornercameras.html http://web.me
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Some goodies via Jon Bentley: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/cs261/background/p176-ben... And a different presentation of some of the same material, on consequences of Little's Law, from his book Pro
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by theoh 8y ago
The planning of Soviet prefabricated concrete housing was definitely ideological as well as economic. Bauhaus was a bit more idealistic, you're right. There was a notion that building large numbers of minimum houses was the only just w
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Yeah, they've got that covered too. The second paragraph of the paper says that they're working with the notion of "deniable encryption" introduced in a paper by Canetti et al: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il

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