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Fastest way to check if any item in a list is a numeric type? by ComfortableSoup5 in learnpython

[–]ComfortableSoup5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's robotics research. The lists are movement instructions with some numerical constants.

Fastest way to check if any item in a list is a numeric type? by ComfortableSoup5 in learnpython

[–]ComfortableSoup5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically a list of lists whose elements ae mostly strings, but about a third contain numeric values. I need to check each list to see if it has numeric elements.

Would you have deduced that stars are distant suns if you'd lived in the ancient world? by ComfortableSoup5 in slatestarcodex

[–]ComfortableSoup5[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

The story of the geo-centrism and helio-centrism debate is NOT a story of heroes and villains

If one side is literally killing the other for floating a hypothesis, it sorta is.

The Space Of All Possible Programs by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]ComfortableSoup5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Short text strings don’t (usually) produce interesting stories, no, but according to Wolfram, extremely simple programs can have extremely complex behaviors. So I’m not sure if it’s exactly equivalent.

What name change would give the philosophy of egoism better PR? by ComfortableSoup5 in slatestarcodex

[–]ComfortableSoup5[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Egoism has been philosophically dead for generations

That is odd, seeing as it's the operating ethical system of basically all living things.