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by theophrastus 13y ago
It ought to be pointed out that this method (and many others even more cunning) are detailed in the delightful tome "Hacker's Delight" (ISBN 978-0-201-91465-8) by Henry S. Warren on about page 481 or so: "The Newton step
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by theophrastus 13y ago
i also tried to use pop/pushd ...tried hard. and never got it integrated into the work flow. however this guy's method has saved me a lot of keystrokes (very handy if one has a few, frequently visited, yet deeply nested, director
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by theophrastus 13y ago
yes indeed social problems. or as one of my favorite quotes goes: "Trust no one! The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them!" --Col. Hunter Gathers, OSI (Venture Bros parody of Hun
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by theophrastus 13y ago
I have no idea what you mean by "functional difference" here. But there are significant differences in both metabolic requirements and sugar structure between fructose and sucrose (that being one whole glucose moiety). The glycos
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by theophrastus 13y ago
yes indeed. and it's certainly worthy at the postdoc level. but (quote from the LyX site): "Can I read and write Word files? Yes, but not trivially, and you should not expect to be able to collaborate with someone using Word to
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by theophrastus 13y ago
yep... we're all ears to alternatives. i often have to publish technical works academically and i really think the current crop of non-LaTeX solutions produce painful results. but i'm up against "we all use MSWord™ because
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by theophrastus 13y ago
absolutely! that one is quite high up on my python_idioms_to_import file
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by theophrastus 13y ago
thank you. i would've never thought of that. * *
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by theophrastus 13y ago
(on 'jessie'): apt-cache search 'movie.<asterisk>python|python.<asterisk>movie' ... <squatmo-germane> ... well, nutz. (and how the hell do you type a real asterisk in this comment forum? tried escapes..
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by theophrastus 13y ago
There is an observed situation in evolutionary ecology which the response to Lennart rather reminds me of: the case of the overwhelming singular adaptive advantage. An ecological situation arises which gives one subspecies a huge, but temp
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by theophrastus 13y ago
In the set of options to choose when one hasn't a truly innovative notion to review then the one that tends to top the list is: "If there's a separable technology which hasn't shown significant public change in ten year
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by theophrastus 13y ago
there's a language named "js" or "py"? i'm only aware of languages named "javascript" or "python" ;)
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by theophrastus 13y ago
hear-hear! some of my least favorite things to search and research about are matters related to "R", "C", "dock", "boost", "Go"... i never had any such problems with "erlang", &