lrc

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by lrc 2mo ago
It's like Frutiger Aero come to life
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by lrc 7mo ago
if you click through to the linked Vannevar Bush article and scroll down there are a bunch of vintage ads around the prose that are kind of interesting. And some of the predictions have been well overtaken by events!
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by lrc 2y ago
The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.
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by lrc 3y ago
The 18th place entry (A cryptocrystalline micrometeorite resting on a #80 testing sieve) is like a still from the original Andromeda Strain movie
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by lrc 3y ago
It is better stated that: since there are "so many more" irrational numbers than rational ones, if you were to pick a real number "at random," the probability that it would be rational is zero. The "many more"
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by lrc 3y ago
Have a look at Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org
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by lrc 3y ago
When I was in high school my desk had a graffiti carved in it of the three most important numbers: 69, 2112, and 714. 2112 was the Rush album (which I liked), and I had to ask a friend about 714: he explained that it was the number printed
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by lrc 4y ago
My own thought (I know there is a great deal of room for disagreement) is that the J6 crowd saw no consequences for the attempts to obstruct the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and thought the rules had changed. One of them was shot in the nec
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by lrc 4y ago
> Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and the capacity for de
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by lrc 6y ago
I have done the translation from Scheme to Clojure which raises the possibility that some of the typing could be done gradually with spec; I haven't worked with typed scheme. There's a lot of code in the simplifier which is design
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by lrc 6y ago
I have been interested in doing this for a long time, and have thought about doing it in Haskell. It would be a lot of work, and some of the type decisions that would be needed would probably complicate the UX of the software (the automatic
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by lrc 7y ago
Thank you, I will do this.
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by lrc 7y ago
(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything down on my 32Gb trashcan pro. I thought it might have some
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by lrc 7y ago
I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictionary and a conjugation chart. I started with _Les Trois Mousqu
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by lrc 7y ago
And in just such a way as to prevent your insurance company from paying a claim!
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by lrc 7y ago
So you get one free murder? No, the deterrent had to be there beforehand, so that our hypothetical killer who is certain she only wants to kill one person will be exposed to that deterrence. Even if she is not thereby deterred, the fact tha
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by lrc 7y ago
I'm so glad it was helpful. We have some Jupyter notebooks, e.g. https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/j... One on the Foucault pendulum sounds like it would make a nice additio
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by lrc 7y ago
I maintain a port to Clojure https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils I haven't done much with it recently but have plans in the back of my mind for when I have more free time.
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by lrc 8y ago
/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger
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by lrc 8y ago
There is good news and bad news. The ODE integrators (etc.) in Apache Commons Math are great and work with unboxed types. In SICM, however, you'll be dealing with clojure functions generated by the system to map states to their time de
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by lrc 8y ago
You are correct.
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by lrc 8y ago
zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the system.
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by lrc 8y ago
It's what I learned with. I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't tried any others. It gets you started, and seems best for a reader who knows a few other languages.
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by lrc 8y ago
It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.
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by lrc 9y ago
The Scheme code that inspired this can work symbolically as well as numerically, since it contains a computer algebra system at its core.
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by lrc 9y ago
So much is hiding behind the word "allow" in your last paragraph. On balance I think it's a good thing that elite purveyors of propaganda are losing their ability to brand their product as something other than what it is.
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by lrc 9y ago
It is not as if forces hostile to Trump/Brexit were innocent of buying analytical data. The recent Senate hearings on Russian ad-buys were strangely incurious about, say, purchases from China. Were there any? Would they tell us?
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by lrc 9y ago
I will never forget reading Sandkings in Omni as a kid. I couldn't sleep that night
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by lrc 9y ago
The movie also shows a female hero without putting a thumb on the scale. Compare Ripley's descent into the Alien Queen's lair vs. that time the girl kicked a whole Velociraptor out the window using gymnastics
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by lrc 9y ago
I'm starting to evolve my work with SICM to cover "Functional Differential Geometry" [0], mostly because I hope to learn about relativity (special & general) while doing so. Your book evaluations will certainly help and I

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