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Mathematics as a Creative Art (1968) [pdf](math.slu.edu)
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by wollw 8y ago
> One McRefugee renting a subdivided flat in To Kwa Wan, Hung said, told volunteers that her landlord charged her HK$16 for a unit of electricity, compared to about HK$1.10 charged by the city’s two main power suppliers. Sounds like they
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by wollw 8y ago
It's forced me to think a lot more about the material worth of our economy, specifically legal tender. I took a $20 Bank Note to the Coin Shop yesterday to trade ~1g of Cotton and Flax for a $1 Unit (~1oz of Silver) which I'll be
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by wollw 8y ago
One of the problems with this is our debt based economy. I would have ordained at one point if it weren't for the fact that having taken loans out for school means I'm ironically too poor to take a vow of poverty.
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by wollw 8y ago
Sir Issac Newton was a virgin too, just to add some balance to things.
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by wollw 8y ago
The main reason I brought it up is that like the Apple "Store" the OpenBSD Ports (in my case) are a curated selection of software. I do mostly use pkg_add to install, as it is recommended and takes less time, but Ports is more re
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by wollw 8y ago
I prefer the BSD port system.
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by wollw 8y ago
We could also honestly say he's talented and be pretty sure he weighs at least 75 pounds[1]. It occurs to me that part of the problem is the analogous thinking in the first place, but even I (someone who was planning to take a vow of
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by wollw 8y ago
I mentioned it in the comments of a post the other day, but the English Speaking World can at least trace this kind of thinking back to Thomas Cranmer and the Articles of Religion of the Church of England--in particular, Article XIV. Of Wor
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by wollw 8y ago
I find something ironic about this, but of course it's unfortunately true. Until last year my "Church" experience was mostly on and off spending time at a Buddhist monastery which was more about taking part in an isolated co
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by wollw 8y ago
We need to start planning cities and towns in terms of foot traffic and stop assuming the need for other forms of transportation.
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by wollw 8y ago
As someone with an formal education in Art despite a background in Tech, I'm growing more and more disillusioned with currencies beyond actual Legal Tender... I almost agree with the 1792 Mint Act's attachment of a death sentence
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by wollw 8y ago
I would think that's part of the reason he shouldn't be fired. What difference should it make to anyone mature enough to do business with?
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by wollw 9y ago
A Response: "After Alan Luo" [ http://imgur.com/fmt1Kib ] Being an Artist with a background in technology I can't help but appreciate this differently than I believe intended. I've been thinking a lot rec
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by wollw 11y ago
So, time vs money is a rich persons dilemma. It's also a monk or nun's dilemma and a motivating factor in ordination for some.
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by wollw 12y ago
You can also create automata with video by treating it as a three dimensional world. I did a bit of messing around with this a few months ago[1] and created some examples. The only one I can still find that is interesting is probably this
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by wollw 12y ago
I'm an artist (well, a student really) with an interest in mathematics and computer science abstractions. I like to create work related to and inspired by technology. Given how important these fields of knowledge have become I believ
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Auto as Category, Applicative and Arrow (Intro to Machines/Arrows Part 2)(blog.jle.im)
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The Aura of the Digital(ctheory.net)
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by wollw 13y ago
Thanks. I guess I should expand on my previous comment... Despite what that github page says about not having any reason for making these sculptures, I'm currently thinking of them as a way to highlight the kinds of concepts and techno
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by wollw 13y ago
I'm more interested in the visual aesthetic, but I've built a few sculptures[1] visualizing algorithms. It's something I'm hoping to expand on when I have more time and resources. I'd write a bit more about them,
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by wollw 13y ago
Those interested in a positive take on 3-D might be interested in reading Thomas Elsaesser's paper, "The “Return” of 3-D: On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century"[1]. One of his examp
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Personal Dynamic Media(newmediareader.com)
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by wollw 14y ago
I experimented a bit more and found if I put it before my "syntax on" and color scheme setup lines it doesn't work, but if I put it after them the fix works. Raticide's comment clued me in.
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by wollw 14y ago
I had the same problem at first. Try putting it after wherever you're loading the plugin itself. edit: Also, thanks airblade. I think I'm going to keep using this.
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by wollw 14y ago
You don't, but I've run into more problems with bash being in unexpected places than env.
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by wollw 14y ago
It's probably safer to use: #!/usr/bin/env bash Assuming env is installed (I believe I had to install a package on OpenBSD to use it) this will find the first instance of bash in the PATH.
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by wollw 14y ago
If the review process was blind and the proposals were evaluated on their merits alone then in the selection process would have removed the author's demographic as a discriminating factor. The sample itself would likely be skewed (as in th
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by wollw 14y ago
The most interesting part of the article for me was this: To keep the selection process fair, Courtney chose applicants based on their pitches only, without looking at the speaker’s identity or gender. Based on this it doesn't
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by wollw 14y ago
While relying on something like this for you meditation may not be ideal , what harm does this do? If this helps some number of people begin to regularly meditate isn't that a net gain?

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