itigtohft

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by itigtohft 3y ago
Well, tough. This is how art works: a consensus emerges among practitioners that some things are better than other things, even though nobody can articulate in words just what makes the good things so good, or the bad things bad. The discip
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by itigtohft 3y ago
I trained as an architectural historian, and let me tell you, architectural quality can't be put into words. Architects and arch. historians have intuitive opinions. There is no science of architectural criticism. Alexander was the kin
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by itigtohft 3y ago
Christopher Alexander thinks he is the messiah of building. The buildings he has built are not good, though, and not all of the other architects in the world are as stupid as you might want to believe. "A Pattern Language" just is
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by itigtohft 3y ago
It is produced by mdBook https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/
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by itigtohft 3y ago
I have posted a related resource on the entire history of printed images. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37562880
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by itigtohft 3y ago
They are famous. I am in my mid-40s and the term was discussed when I was growing up—despite the technology having been obsolete for 100 years. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/18/google-do
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by itigtohft 3y ago
Site, with hours of video, that accompanies the exhibition on the history of printing techniques mounted by Richard Benson at the end of his career.
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The Printed Picture (Richard Benson)(printedpicture.artgallery.yale.edu)
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by itigtohft 3y ago
This actually happened a long time ago. Back in 2007, in fact.
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by itigtohft 3y ago
I don't know where you got the idea that there is a first guess that comes from a table. The table lookup just brings x into a suitable range, given A. Shades of "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
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by itigtohft 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_iteration
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by itigtohft 3y ago
There are a couple of nice minimal spreadsheets in js: http://web.archive.org/web/20130606222859/http://thomasstree... Inspired by that, an even smaller one: https://jsfiddle.net/ondras&#
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by itigtohft 3y ago
If you search for "perpetual motion machine" you can find a ton of cheap knockoffs of this device. You can get a badly made wooden knockoff for $50 or quite a bit less?
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by itigtohft 3y ago
One interesting thing is that category theory provides a way to precisely describe a Most General Unifier. It is a example of a coequalizer. This isn't a really basic and accessible result, but IMO it gives a good flavour of what categ
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by itigtohft 3y ago
The term intaglio does not just cover engraving. It also includes etching, which is quite different.