theophrastus

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by theophrastus 9y ago
I wish there was a clean nomenclature for the context of program use. My world of programming is academia and industrial research. In that setting the vast majority of software is fashioned for ad-hoc use. There is no expectation that a lar
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by theophrastus 9y ago
A large employer in my past used to apparently conduct just this sort of "interview". I learned to my disgust a few years later that the division conducting those "interviews" were doing what they called a "brain s
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by theophrastus 9y ago
Interesting, but with an unfortunate command line name collision. "gcal"[1] is an established and rather useful elaboration on "cal" by Giuseppe Scrivano and Thomas Esken. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software
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by theophrastus 9y ago
I can personally attest to this point of view. My degree is in protein structure, specifically x-ray crystallography, and there were more than a few professors in our department who would specifically deride any post-doc/senior-fellow
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by theophrastus 9y ago
The creators of i3wm provide a hint as to what they think might serve as good terminal implementations for i3 on their manual page[1]. Here's how the search sequence begins for a "sensible terminal": $TERMINAL urxvt rxvt term
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by theophrastus 9y ago
using the rearranged form: ((x + (((2*y*z) + (y*y) + (z*z) + (((z*z*z) - (z*y*y))/(x + y)))/(x + z)))/(y + z)) I find by brute force (no pride!) the first solution triplet: 35, 132, 627 Edit: of course, this is not
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by theophrastus 9y ago
What an impressive device! Does it retain statistics keyed to a particular die? So that you could possible identify a 'loaded' cube which sneaked in?
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by theophrastus 9y ago
I believe the emacs implementation is due to Reingold and Dershowitz[1] On page 11 of this pdf they give quite a bit of detail about the calculation of French Revolutionary Calendar, (including leap year complications). [1] http:/&#x2
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by theophrastus 9y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of the infamous 'Deltoid Pumpkinseed'[1][2] ? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Deltoid-Pumpkin-Seed-John-McPhee/dp/
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Car is changing position, but engine off: Stolen mode activated(seattletimes.com)
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by theophrastus 9y ago
"Having AMT on isn't that unusual either. It's not the default" AMT is on by default in at least a number of the popular thinkpad series[1] (i'm the only owner of a relatively old thinkpad, and only because of this
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by theophrastus 10y ago
For me, entirely because of python's large, referenced, and well-documented numerical libraries (e.g. scipy and numpy).
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by theophrastus 10y ago
I've always subscribed to Carl Sagan's "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". That is, the burden of proof lies with those who assert a surprising claim. If you wish to assert that dramatically reducing
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by theophrastus 10y ago
Having relatives in city government I have overheard that Utah's proud achievement was accomplished by "adjustments made to their demographic surveys". And that this was seen as a very economical solution to the problem.
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by theophrastus 10y ago
wikipedia: LD50 (median [lethal] dose) 1090 mg/kg (oral, rat)[1] (a gram per kilogram is fairly non-toxic. NaCl (table salt) LD50 is ~3gram/kg) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_permanganate
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by theophrastus 10y ago
This article seems to miss a favorite possible source of the valentine heart shape, (which Don Knuth eludes to in the Metafont manual on his way to a classic heart shape): it's the shape of woman's buttocks, viewed from a certain
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by theophrastus 10y ago
In my current experience with states-side academia: draw a line between the most math/theoretical departments through physics and end up at the engineering departments. The tendency to use TeX/LaTeX follows that line from a relat
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by theophrastus 10y ago
As regards your "2." I have often thought that Randall Munroe's approach with "Thing Explainer"[1] would serve (for the rest of us) a number of computer science theory dominated software areas exceedingly well. (ho
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by theophrastus 10y ago
Francis Crick, (of Watson and Crick DNA fame), got very interested in brain science toward the end of his life and gave several worldwide lectures on that subject. I was fortunate to attend one of them. During which he proposed several int
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by theophrastus 10y ago
Or if one doesn't have cdecl installed there's an online version[1] which has proven as a useful check on several occasions [1] http://cdecl.org/
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by theophrastus 10y ago
Or why use variances when there are standard deviations (the square root of the variance) which have more easily interpreted units? One commonly cited reason is that one can sum variances from different factors, which one cannot do with st
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by theophrastus 10y ago
I've successfully used getmail to back-up my gmail accounts for over ten years now. It's a classic case of a functional, if a bit crufty, solution blinding one to a potentially better solution, so i appreciate this (gmvault) head
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by theophrastus 10y ago
To a first approximation that looks fine[1]. To a second approximation one might consider that heat doesn't exit any endotherm in remotely equal surface fashion[2]. And if anything the wrists appear as local minima. [1] https:/&
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by theophrastus 10y ago
hmm.... Identifier: systemd Not used
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by theophrastus 10y ago
apologies (read the update before blathering): New Org linter library org-lint can check syntax and report common issues in Org documents.
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by theophrastus 10y ago
How about putting together an upgrade tool in the same spirit of python's 2to3 [1]? If not actually a corrective tool it could discover and report likely outmoded constructs. Or even form the basis of a proper org-lint? In anycase, i
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by theophrastus 10y ago
Having spent too much time with Biotech CEOs the old maxim that accountants are "first to be hired and last to be fired" is statistically valid. Their awareness of the raison d'etre of any business should be available to gui
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by theophrastus 10y ago
Unless i'm getting my natural sources mixed up, a banana is slightly radioactive due to Potassium-40 and that decays beta. A standard Geiger counter easily detects x-ray/gamma/photons, where beta decay is via an ejected elec
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by theophrastus 10y ago
This is a very impressive effort! And I can't help but think it recalls an old heroic trope wherein the development of the true hero involves wandering off to forge one's own sword, (a theme which was more recently picked up on i
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by theophrastus 10y ago
"help you use words correctly" how exactly? This is an interesting bit of etymology, to be sure; but is just one example of a whole library of similar relations. For example, there are entire books devoted to the historical tran

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