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by tokipin 13y ago
i don't understand. for years my mom worked at her job (12hrs night shift, hard labor, without most of her fingers on one hand which she lost in an accident), cooked and cleaned, and took care of her young children
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by tokipin 13y ago
i don't see the problem. crime -> prison. it seems classist to me to not throw them all into the same place
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by tokipin 13y ago
As I said, it depends on what you consider part of the system. And over large time scales the randomness 'blurs' such that other factors become more significant (e.g., your DNA is not a random sequence of nucleotides). Here is a q
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by tokipin 13y ago
Right, but which balls make it through and which don't isn't random -- that's decided by the holes. It is tricky though. I guess it depends on what you consider to be within the system and outside of it. In this example you h
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by tokipin 13y ago
when it comes to evolution, people get stuck on the word "chance". evolution uses chance as a search mechanism. it is death which "chooses" in the design-sounding way you mention. it is because evolution is 'blind
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by tokipin 13y ago
it's my understanding that the gravitational "torsion" from Jupiter alone is enough to do all sorts of things (like keep a planet thermally active)
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by tokipin 13y ago
they probably recognized sound as just vibrations in materials. it's a pretty straightforward observation, in my opinion. actually thinking of using a string in that way is the "outside the box" part i think generally ancient
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by tokipin 13y ago
best historical overview on Mandela for those of us who have only heard the word 'apartheid' but didn't know what it refered to (video): http://on.msnbc.com/1cpfpAr
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by tokipin 13y ago
i heard about a book that discusses the various ways in which our brains fool ourselves. i've never actually seen it though. anyone have a clue what book it might be?
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think @daveid's point is common, and i haven't actually read anything by Brin on the matter so i don't know what counterpoint he might make. maybe tracking itself would be tracked? maybe person X is watching you watch perso
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think if this kind of thing is inevitable, then it should be the case that this kind of information should be completely public to all, not just to governments. similar to what David Brin argues ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by tokipin 13y ago
personally, this kind of thing seems obvious. i would be surprised if the person who wrote the paper didn't take cute things like this into account
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think i answered that question already, which is yes , but technically no . here is a rough Javascript version of the original example: makeObj[] := Module[{obj, i = 0}, obj["inc"] := ++i; obj["dec"]
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by tokipin 13y ago
if you're asking whether functions in Mathematica are first-class values, then yes. everything in Mathematica is first-class. functions are just symbols that have associated pattern-matching rules in the form f[___], otherwise they are
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by tokipin 13y ago
yes, using Module primarily. here's one way you might make a basic object-like thing (though i would generally advise against OO stuff in Mathematica. part of the power of the language is due to how it keeps everything straightforwardl
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by tokipin 13y ago
right, but in those cases you can just go to the documentation, which is pretty clear in the various ways you can use functions. for example: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Map.html
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think you're right that the "essense" is not lisp. Mathematica is more abstract than lisp, and it has lisp-like features built on top of it . that said, the analogy can be useful because things like "macros" are
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by tokipin 13y ago
you can do SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], DockedCells :> {}] and there are options to remove the window frame, etc. but i think if you are using certain licenses the toolbar may not disappear. and the main toolbar never disa
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by tokipin 13y ago
part of the problem Mathematica has is that people assume it's just for math, which isn't the case. it's a very general system. this renaming, while utterly dorky and aesthetically hamhanded, will at least help clear that mis
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think that's a reference to the fact that Mathematica uses M-expressions and operator precedence. it doesn't look like lisp, but if you FullForm an expression you will see that it's all just M-expressions. that said, i thin
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by tokipin 13y ago
the spec of the underlying language would be very simple. it's basically just repeated pattern matching. beyond that, knowing where to draw the line would be a bit weird. for example, does the function TextRecognize [1] need to be spec
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by tokipin 13y ago
what's wrong with just using obj["a"] = 1; obj["b"] = 2; Print[obj["a"]] or obj = { "a" -> 1, "b" -> 2 }; Print["a" /. obj] ?
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by tokipin 13y ago
Mathematica can deal with arbitrary-precision numbers (or better said, Mathematica doesn't blindly use whatever underlying number format is present, it has precise controls for this sort of thing http://reference.wolfram.com
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by tokipin 13y ago
the MATLAB language is pretty poorly designed, in my opinion. take for example the use of abbreviated function names. everything in Mathematica (including graphics and UI) is described using the structure of the Mathematica language itself.
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by tokipin 13y ago
i don't see how you can avoid that long-term without a split/curved keyboard. maybe if you deliberately angle your hands, but then the keys are weird to hit
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by tokipin 13y ago
probably they hire only one hemisphere of the brain
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by tokipin 13y ago
i thought healthcare.gov is for those states which opted out of the medicaid expansion (i'm not sure about this). it may have been the case that the number which have opted out was unexpected by an order of magnitude. i don't know
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by tokipin 13y ago
VsVim: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...
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by tokipin 13y ago
not quite sure i understand the problem, but here's one Mathematica approach: m = {{39, 90, 75, 88, 15, 57}, {9, 2, 58, 68, 48, 64}, {29, 55, 16, 67, 8, 91}, {40, 54, 66, 22, 32, 25}, {49, 1, 17, 41, 14, 30},
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by tokipin 13y ago
interesting. i have an idea for a game that appears to be roughly in the same spirit, though in my case the game is intended to be 'a puzzle game' that in a sense just happens to involve basic programming. there are non-trivial an

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