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by tokipin 13y ago
The most powerful stuff revolves around the Dynamic symbol[1]. If you use this, for example: Dynamic[Graphics[Disk[p]]] And then somewhere else, either manually or programmatically, you change the value of p, you will see the disk
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by tokipin 13y ago
He's probably quite aware of what the intended meaning is. The point is that since we're in effect always talking about 'verisimilitudes', calling this or that an "illusion" is silly, because it implies that we
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by tokipin 13y ago
that may be the case to an extent, but i think the most influential aspect of teaching is something that comes naturally to some and not at all to others. so you end up with vast differences between teaching skill, completely independent of
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by tokipin 13y ago
you should see the kinds of things Mathematica notebooks can do
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by tokipin 13y ago
This should be pretty obvious. In basic terms, it would be extremely inefficient for the brain to store everything "directly." Meaning all memories are "reconstructions" to some extent and therefore inherently flighty gi
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by tokipin 13y ago
Yea, it is weird. The dream was probably inspired by an X-Men trailer I must have seen, but I don't know why Storm was singled out. Though I've had enough practice with dreams to know the recursive detail-filling manner in which m
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by tokipin 13y ago
squirrels are badass. they use the power lines as highways and they even have off-ramps (tree branches). and then there's this squirrel i see sometimes that has dark fur and it isn't afraid of humans and goes right out in the open
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by tokipin 13y ago
Yes. I don't think I broke it down that precisely but that's probably what it boils down to.
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by tokipin 13y ago
As I said, I've never seen the movies (or read the comic books, for that matter), so I don't know what in the bonkers you're saying. It's just the fact that it was a female character being portrayed in a particular way.
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by tokipin 13y ago
It was a vision of a movie scene where the posturing and ambient styling made it clear that the movie-makers were emphasizing the "strength" of this female character, because "a strong woman is always cool." Something al
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by tokipin 13y ago
I used to think all the fuss about women being treated differently was in large part an exaggeration in this day and age. But then a few months ago I woke up from a dream vision of Storm (from the X-Men movies) being 'strong'. Wei
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by tokipin 13y ago
The meaning is pretty clear in the interview: "I'm not sure why. It could be that there are a bunch of subtle things entrepreneurs have to communicate and can't if you have a strong accent. Or, it could be that anyone with ha
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by tokipin 13y ago
what if it's not on the left or right. something to think about
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by tokipin 13y ago
as an anecdote, i've been using Vim for almost 10 years and i've never used plugins. the extent of my customization is setting the font/color scheme in the vimrc
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by tokipin 13y ago
you won't have trouble. that said, the first Scala course is excellent independent of its use of Scala because of its fun/challenging homework assignments
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by tokipin 13y ago
there are outcries when 3rd world countries do homophobic things, too. i think russia's case is because 1) russia recently accelerated its homophobia by passing laws or intending to pass laws, 2) the olympic games are going to be held
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by tokipin 13y ago
Sedgewick's tone/approach is very natural. He says things in terms of "this is what we know," sometimes implying that the subject is not as settled as it appears. This in contrast to professors that just go through the m
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by tokipin 13y ago
i just got a flash of genius. what if instead of just up and down vote arrows, there were also left and right vote arrows, where each vote would move the post one pixel to the left/right (you would no longer be able to vote up/dow
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by tokipin 13y ago
that there is risk is a given. everyone knows that, including the government. that some companies in which this particular program invested failed and some succeeded is an utterly mundane detail
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by tokipin 13y ago
part of the issue is how quick people are to judge, combined with the particular historical perception of electric cars. Tesla has to be very aggressive about the image of its vehicles, otherwise the prevailing prejudices about electric car
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by tokipin 13y ago
I want to point out that Wolfram doesn't think the universe is a giant cellular automaton. He gives CA as examples of how easy it is to produce impermeable complexity. His more serious proposal is a graph-based system, though I haven
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by tokipin 13y ago
I'm not sure it's that simple. I had an interview where I got tripped up by a simple condition in a if statement. I don't remember exactly what it was, maybe it involved a quirky negation. But either way I would've never
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by tokipin 13y ago
they could be opening the very gates of hell in that lab
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by tokipin 13y ago
this is probably more deliberate than you might think. one of the problems electric cars have had is that they have a reputation for being dorky. there is a limit to how "interesting" Tesla can make one of its cars look at the mom
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by tokipin 13y ago
this reminds me of one of Keith Olbermann's "Special Comments" where he discussed this specific issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXInEft17k
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on the other end, i think it's also weird to say that we will never understand consciousness. frankly i think our science just isn't very advanced at the moment. particularly lacking is our understanding of anything that isn'
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by tokipin 13y ago
Yes there are still ways for the law to be hurt, beyond Republicans pointlessly voting to repeal it 40 times. Long story short however, the law will survive mostly in tact, which is definitely for the better in my opinion. By the way, the f
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by tokipin 13y ago
Health reform alone will land him in a nice place in the history books. Even against the immutable recalcitrance of congressional republicans he has managed to accomplish a lot. I think most people don't recognize how accomplished Ob
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but dude, the possibilities[1] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWV4Hemfio
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there is too much risk to just jumping into the mass-market price range, so Tesla is using these high-end vehicles as an infrastructure/know-how/money launchpad for broader mass-market cars. in other words, from a strategic point

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