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by bombastry 2y ago
The recent book Mathematica by David Bessis attempts to describe this exact topic. One core theme of the book is that math is done by building mental models and using our intuitions that come from. Formalism is then used to shape and refi
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by bombastry 2y ago
Adult Swim's 404 page always has a dark, sometimes surreal, shaggy-dog story that ends with a reference to the page being 404.[1] The page seems to return the same story each time you access it (at least on the same day). I'm not
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by bombastry 3y ago
To provide a bit of context, this article is about Timothy Burke. His most famous work is the compilation video of news anchors on Sinclair-owned local news stations reading the same script about how media bias is "extremely dangerous
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by bombastry 3y ago
The amazing thing is even the writers didn’t know that episode was going to end that way until the night before they shot the ending. Here’s Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld talking about it: https://youtu.be/uZPSO4yte8k
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by bombastry 3y ago
The prefix notation may be throwing you off or perhaps you have mistaken the function `bottles` for the string "bottles". The code `(bottles i)` in the loop is calling the function `bottles` (defined at the top) with the argument
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by bombastry 3y ago
This image is even more worthless than it seems. The post on Wikimedia is an original work. Its description states: "As the percentage of graduates increases the minimum IQ to include at least that percentage of graduates inherently de
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by bombastry 4y ago
I agree; this story is apocryphal. I was annoyed enough that I did some research into the story. Via this Atlantic article[1], I found the original Valleywag post[2] containing the letter from the employee. It's worth noting that the l
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by bombastry 4y ago
I really enjoyed the second example of paying Netflix by the second. The blockchain has invented movie rentals.
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by bombastry 4y ago
This discussion should link to the Reuters article[1] it quotes from rather than a site whose Google search meta description reads “Trump News, and Breaking News Updated 24/7.” [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/t
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by bombastry 4y ago
Unfortunately the newsletter is on break until Monday, although he did end up writing a column about Musk on one of his days off a week ago[1]. We may be limited for now to his brief reactions to news on Twitter[2][3]. [1] https:/&#x2
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by bombastry 5y ago
These books are surprisingly satisfying and fun to work through. The instant feedback from the proof checker makes them feel like a game of logic puzzles.
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by bombastry 5y ago
If you get the word right on your 6th guess, the game still counts it as if you lost in the stats.
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by bombastry 5y ago
I wasn't thinking about that when I commented, but you're absolutely right. I definitely missed the point. I don't think there is any way to generalize the algorithm in the article to work on the method I described. However I
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by bombastry 5y ago
If you check every node that the hare enters, you don't need the relative speed to be coprime to the cycle-length. This eliminates the need for the hare and tortoise to finish a round on the same node; the hare passing the tortoise is
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by bombastry 5y ago
In addition to its annoying layout, this site bizarrely decides to mix public domain works from the various different major copyright systems together (life + 50 years, life + 70 years, the old American system of 95 years). For example, Nab
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by bombastry 5y ago
That's a really good method. I think one of the reasons why this works so well is that it makes the student think about the "why". Most people are more likely to follow rules they understand (so long as they agree with why th
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by bombastry 5y ago
I also thought this was odd. This site alleges malfeasance based purely on analysis of data but then alludes to a person's thoughts on specific dates without citation. I also found this article on 2020/12/21 where Pelosi says
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by bombastry 6y ago
It's tough to come to any conclusion from looking at eBay listings. Especially when many of the listings are from possible scammers. Sort by "most bids" and set the minimum value to $100. Only a few have even a single bid, wi
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by bombastry 6y ago
It's worth noting that Matt Levine has a lot of other good writing on SPACs. (And economics in general. To anyone reading this comment, I highly recommend his daily newsletter "Money Stuff", which is where these excerpts come
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by bombastry 6y ago
European newspapers can be even worse. Le Monde, one the biggest French newspapers, requires its customers to unsubscribe via registered mail. This is even the case for digital-only subscriptions.
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by bombastry 6y ago
I found a link to a video with a large portion of the debate[1], though I can't vouch for whether watching it is worthwhile. From quickly comparing bits of it to a transcript[2], it seems like at least some of the debate has been cut o
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by bombastry 6y ago
The two blues are identical: the CSS has them both colored as "dodgerblue." Facebook appears to be the only one in the "Proprietary" category. The rest of the blue ones are all "Chrome."
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by bombastry 6y ago
For anyone who enjoyed this article: there is another excellent CIA report about Czechoslovkian counterintelligence intercepting Hungarian mail in the 1930s[1]. That article was posted on HN about a year ago[2]. [1] https://www.ci
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by bombastry 6y ago
Org-Capture creates a temporary buffer, inserts its template string, processes the special escape sequences (called "%-escapes")[1], and then lets the user edit the buffer before adding it as an entry. Where the entry goes is spec
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by bombastry 6y ago
In Emacs, an org-capture template[1] can be used to quickly and easily append new items to logs. It can prompt the user to enter text in multiple locations, eliminating the need to navigate around boilerplate to write entries. It can also p
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by bombastry 6y ago
I believe that this may be the missing link (or equivalent): https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/root/spelle... This is a spell-checker in the D reference compiler that detect
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by bombastry 6y ago
I use MIPAV[1] which can run on Linux (or any OS with a new enough Java Runtime Environment). I don’t have a lot of experience with other DICOM viewers and have somewhat limited use cases for it, but it seems to have a good number of featur
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by bombastry 6y ago
I took the (Penn) Calculus sequence by Robert Ghrist and really enjoyed it as a review of single variable calculus. He uses Taylor series as the basis of his explanations which I felt was really clean way to provide intuition for some of th
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by bombastry 6y ago
I'm not sure why Sartre is quoted in Italian here, but this seems to be a spurious quote all the same. I could only find two sources with a version of that quote in French and neither had a citation of the original source. In fact, the
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by bombastry 6y ago
He also has the incontrovertible proof of a screenshot anyone could have taken from any account that copied Trump's profile and cover photos.

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