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by yiyus 8y ago
> special characters on the home row In my opinion, the best setup would be an ortholinear keyboard with not many keys and multiple layers (let's say something like a Planck), but instead of using key combinations to change layers,
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by yiyus 8y ago
In Andalusia, Spain, the weather can get really hot and you rarely see AC in houses (it's still common in buildings such as malls and hospitals, for example). I am sure there are many features of Andalusian architecture that would be a
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by yiyus 8y ago
Many users do not even know that keyboard layouts can be changed. I think you are hugely overestimating the effort spent in this. I understand this could be tricky for QEMU, but emulators are always tricky. They are exceptional, not the nor
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by yiyus 8y ago
You say you imagine different layouts cause problems and sending Unicode characters would be better, but you did not give a single reason. I regularly use different keyboard layouts and it has never been a problem. It does not suppose any l
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by yiyus 8y ago
> I still can't provide good ETA-s for non-trivial problems. Well, that's why they are non-trivial problems. Don't be too hard on yourself ;)
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by yiyus 8y ago
What's the difference between science and creative work? I'd say that science is creative work. Programming too.
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by yiyus 8y ago
Yes, they are. i would be the unitary vector in the horizontal direction, x, and j in the vertical one, y. In fact, geometric algebras are very general, and the one I briefly sketched is not the only possible interpretation. If you are inte
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by yiyus 8y ago
You want geometric algebra. In 2D GA, you would have two unitary vectors, i and j, such that i * i = 1 and j * j = 1. The (non-commutative) product of between them (or their division) would be a bivector: i * j = ij = - j * i. You rotate 90
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by yiyus 8y ago
Agreed. I got a Vortex Core Mini because I liked the small form factor, but lack of customization makes it unusable for me. I got a Gherkin and am much happier with it.
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by yiyus 8y ago
This problem is equivalent to generating random orientations, which can be easily done generating random unit quaternions (see, for example, [1]). Each quaternion found will correspond to a point in the surface of a 4D sphere, which can be
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by yiyus 8y ago
You may like Acme: https://research.swtch.com/acme
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by yiyus 8y ago
This reminds me of something an artist friend of mine worked on. She tried to make really ugly works, as ugly as she could. Surprisingly, this is extremely difficult. In the article, the curator of the Museum of Bad Art says: "People a
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by yiyus 8y ago
Another book I really liked that talks about infinity is "A Certain Ambiguity", by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal.
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by yiyus 8y ago
So the TGV is the inverse of a snail. That sends the right message, IMO.
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by yiyus 8y ago
> rainbow color maps are bad This is true. But, unfortunately, it is the current standard for many applications. For example: although a luminance-varying colormap is theoretically better, if my doctor has been analyzing MRI scans using
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by yiyus 8y ago
You must make possible for other researchers to reproduce your work, but that does not mean you have to give it to them for free. I work in an university, but in close collaboration with industrial companies. We use models that we explain w
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by yiyus 8y ago
I do not think they are bots. A bot would not ask you to submit an appendix as a separate file in the first submission and merge it after the first review, for example. Most of the work they do is, indeed, forwarding emails (not even readin
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by yiyus 8y ago
Are you seriously comparing the web hosting needs of Elsevier and Twitter?
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by yiyus 8y ago
Actually, many journals require you to give up to five names of possible reviewers, so the authors are somewhat responsible of this task too. And it can be quite difficult if you are in a niche field and you have been there for a while, bec
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by yiyus 8y ago
> Code used to produce published results absolutely should be accessible. Although I agree with this sentiment, I think that if this was a requirement we would not get much more code but much less papers.
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by yiyus 8y ago
They may give some more context, but you usually need to know the domain up to some point anyway. For example: a = &b; may just be a weird bunch of symbols if you don't know C. But my point is that, anyway, for someone who
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by yiyus 8y ago
1 is not really a prime factor. But anyway, if you consider it a prime factor for 12, you should consider it a prime factor of 10 too.
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by yiyus 8y ago
> The semantics of these "hieroglyphs" very much depend on the context We need context to understand words too. What is your point?
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by yiyus 8y ago
This is discussed in The Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah. You better check the book, because it has been a long time since I read it, but he explained that most people counts 3 by 3, sometimes 2 by 2, and exceptionally 4 by 4
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by yiyus 8y ago
I had the same opinion about symbols until I learned some APL. It taught me that symbols can be so useful as they are in math. It is true that non-math people, hardware guys, or graphic designers may not be able to understand a complex equa
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by yiyus 8y ago
There is no license file in kparc.com, neither a single comment about it, or even about its authorship. Nevertheless, it seems to have been developed by Arthur Whitney, so I guess you could ask him. The kx forums may also be a good place to
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by yiyus 8y ago
Thank you. I have already found a few interesting threads, mostly with contributions from geocar, who seems to be working in kos. However, I have the impression everything is kept quite secret around this, and I respect that. My current int
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by yiyus 8y ago
Understanding c.h, a.[ch] and A.S was not too difficult, I can share my notes with you if you are interested. I am still working in b.c itself. I have started from the entry point and try to make sense of it following different simple examp
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by yiyus 8y ago
After having spent some of my free time lately studying the b interpreter by Arthur Whitney ( http://www.kparc.com/b/b.c ), this looks quite straightforward to me. That said, it is indeed tiny. Very nice project, as usua
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by yiyus 8y ago
Is there a shortage of electrons I am not aware of?

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