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by rcollyer 4y ago
It's a set of rewrite rules with infinite outlook, i.e. a term will continue to be evaluated (rewritten) until it no longer changes. There are some limits to prevent recursion (4096 iterations is the typical limit), alongside ways to i
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by rcollyer 4y ago
The kernel (WolframEngine) was built with c, and some parts like the image processing functions are built using c++. The front end (notebook interface) is c++ and some objective-c. A lot of core functionality is built using wolfram language
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by rcollyer 5y ago
Since there's only two states, it is definitely "Ising".
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by rcollyer 5y ago
The constitution is remarkably vague about all manner of things. So, the argument that the "expansion of the government beyond what the Constitution allows" is really difficult to support on a textualist basis. What exactly did yo
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by rcollyer 5y ago
You're ignoring the 9th amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Essentially, the bill of rights was not intended to be ex
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by rcollyer 6y ago
They do breed with each other: a-males mate with b-females, and vice versa, where a/b is the new sex gene.
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by rcollyer 6y ago
Another method for checking your understanding is to work through the worked out problems in the book and any proofs it may have, too. (Most of the value in a proof is in the techniques used to prove the result.) Work through them yourself,
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by rcollyer 6y ago
My eldest in some ways skipped the "why" stage. "How" was a much more important question to him. Although, he did ask his mother once why the sun was on fire, but she passed him off to me on. Because his questions were o
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by rcollyer 7y ago
Only the helium nucleus is formed as part of the fusion reaction, so it starts off being positively charged, and not later stripped of its electrons. That, in principle, creates a current which can be used almost directly.
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by rcollyer 7y ago
I interviewed a guy who's masters work was in the field I did my doctoral work in. I think I'm the only one in the company who knows anything about the particular topic, and considering that the role was far removed from that topi
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by rcollyer 8y ago
As a QA dev, myself, I run across this occasionally. For a recent bug, the dev couldn't reproduce it, yet I could consistently. The difference: the width the window we were using; he was using the default, I was not. Most of the bugs I
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by rcollyer 9y ago
The personal exemption is incorrect. It doesn't add the children into the total ( https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf ), but you can enter it by hand. Also, Student Loan Interest is an above the line dedu