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by xixi77 11y ago
This has been done before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL "The INTERCAL manual gives unusual names to all non-alphanumeric ASCII characters: single and double quotes are "sparks" and "rabbit
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by xixi77 11y ago
There is nothing wrong or pathological about people who want nuclear family having nuclear family; the question is, should people who aren't necessarily as interested in it be socially pressured to having one as well?
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by xixi77 11y ago
But, is the constant probability assumption even reasonable? Seems like an experimental study is necessary. I wonder if it has in fact been already done.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Nice! The only thing I'm kinda missing is the type of the pointing device. But, since it looks like Lenovo is currently the only one with the trackpoint and there is nothing else out there (is that right?), it's not too hard to ju
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by xixi77 11y ago
This is a very good point actually, I have done the same a few times. Of course this works well until you get to code heavily dependent on toolbox functions. Which leads to another advantage of Matlab (at least as long as you don't hav
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by xixi77 11y ago
Are you sure about that one? I am thinking about the situation where presence of alternative code paths that never actually get executed can lead to fairly large differences in timings, particularly for tight loops. (At least in computation
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by xixi77 11y ago
admittedly, the new ribbon interface (well I guess it's no longer new, it's just that I went from using excel for about 6hrs/day to maybe 12hrs/year circa 2005) does look prettier -- but how do people actually go about f
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by xixi77 11y ago
But doesn't this equally apply to fully-electric vehicles as well?
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by xixi77 11y ago
the point of the article is that this is what the author thought was the case, but not what actually appears to be the case -- e.g. it seems that Krugman's interpretation of the same Card & Krueger evidence has changed, as opposed
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by xixi77 11y ago
"It's actually possible for people to take actions which they don't prefer to take." -- ??!! Perhaps you might mean that a person's preferences might change over time and depending on the situation (e.g. I might pre
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by xixi77 11y ago
Definitely true about science on it's own not being robust enough -- but I think you might be going a bit too far saying that "without a robust model of human metabolism/nutrition we just can't make claims like this&quot
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by xixi77 13y ago
and what exactly was the marketing trick that allowed Linux to beat OpenBSD, in your opinion?
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by xixi77 13y ago
Interesting! A few things: - Some locations repeat after a short while - Not sure how the randomization is done, but some countries like Botswana and Bulgaria seem over-represented - Address language seems random (often English, sometimes o
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by xixi77 13y ago
The argument wasn't that drugs were the only area in which organized crime operates; it was that it is by far the biggest one (although I have even harder time considering prostitution to be a crime). But, other things are criminal alr
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by xixi77 13y ago
That link seems to describe the various ways money laundering is done; I don't see it answering the question why it is "a very real problem" though.
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by xixi77 13y ago
I'm not sure -- I think it just a patience vs. money trade off. Which levels are you talking about? Definitely there are levels where it all comes down to luck, but even with 0.5% of winning, you'll probably get there after a coup
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by xixi77 13y ago
I am pretty sure there are people out there who have completed all levels without powerups/extensions/etc, so I think yes. And with the wheel of fortune thing, you don't even have to pay for powerups. The only one I've h
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by xixi77 13y ago
Quite honestly, shameless self-promotion of this is getting really tiresome.
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by xixi77 13y ago
R design is somewhat like perl in the sense that usually there are a lot of ways of doing anything. This includes time series of course. That being said, last time I did time series, I've used xts and was quite happy with it.
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by xixi77 13y ago
That would be actually quite awesome.
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by xixi77 13y ago
Honestly, all these languages, even Matlab, are quite decent at maintainability at the scale they are typically used. Almost anything would be decent at that scale. And speed matters, but you can always rewrite particularly crucial piece in
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by xixi77 13y ago
It is of course, but there is a lot of convenience in using an interpreted language with a REPL and a decent standard library.
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by xixi77 13y ago
Yeah, networkx is pretty good -- I actually meant that network analysis and text processing are the two areas where I'd be quite comfortable recommending Python over Matlab. For time series data, I'd personally pick R though, or
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by xixi77 13y ago
I'd actually say both Julia and Matlab are often quite decent on both learnability, usability (at least for their purpose -- especially as the library for Julia develops), and performance. Certainly, on par with other newly-designed la
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by xixi77 13y ago
What still amazes me: While working in an ipython notebook ( http://ipython.org/notebook.html ) on some numerical calculations, I can just pull up Sympy ( http://sympy.org ) and perform some symbolic computations (
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by xixi77 13y ago
I believe it has been one of the intentions for a while. How far it has advanced, I'm not sure, I haven't looked at it for almost a year, now time for a refresher. But R may be a bit tricky to compete with directly at this point:
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by xixi77 13y ago
His point is: while these things can be nice, no one cares about them other than language designer. They are only means to an end, which is user experience. Sure, some car buyers may know or care what alloy their cylinder block is made of,
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by xixi77 13y ago
This is about the ability to complete a project fast, which is typically about both convenience of fast prototyping, and performance (ie. you don't want to wait days for the results to be computed before changing something in the cod
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by xixi77 13y ago
Well, I think the "unlimited" and "no heavy bandwidth usage" clauses are not compatible with each other. He did violate ToS by running the servers though, and overall, Verizon looks really good in this story, if I were t
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by xixi77 13y ago
What's wrong with managing questions? Sure, there are maybe 5-10 questions I would actually care about, and 10-20 questions that might be somewhat helpful to define my personality, but the rest are quite optional. And when you don&#x27

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