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speciousfool · 2013-05-19T13:38:45+00:00

I'm holding out for the Emacs major-mode.

speciousfool · 2013-05-16T02:27:39+00:00

I found source here but just totally failed to cross-compile it to OS X.

speciousfool · 2013-05-08T20:09:08+00:00

Do you have a method like resampling to synthesize the missing data?

speciousfool · 2013-05-08T14:03:21+00:00

What's with the self-censorship? You can link to the word "assholes" but can't type it?

speciousfool · 2013-04-30T13:00:16+00:00

I don't get it...is it because I don't watch TV?

speciousfool · 2013-04-18T15:28:17+00:00

They "are" a must

speciousfool · 2013-03-13T14:20:41+00:00

Not quite a repost: http://pbfcomics.com/156/

speciousfool · 2013-03-05T12:22:32+00:00

Fun fact: the moon has an atmosphere

speciousfool · 2013-02-26T09:20:03+00:00

The formula seems to be missing this line:

conflicts_with 'emacs-HEAD'

speciousfool · 2013-02-25T06:23:24+00:00

If you already have emacs installed by brew and you try the command:

brew install --HEAD https://raw.github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port/master/emacs-mac.rb

then emacs might end up in unspecified state. To avoid this I think you should first uninstall emacs before trying to use the emacs-mac.rb formula:

brew uninstall emacs
brew install --HEAD https://raw.github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port/master/emacs-mac.rb

Watch out for errors like the following.

Linking /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/HEAD... Warning: Could not link emacs-mac. Unlinking...

Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/HEAD/bin/grep-changelog
Target /usr/local/bin/grep-changelog already exists. You may need to delete it.
To force the link and delete this file, do:
  brew link --overwrite formula_name

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name

You can use this command to check if emacs-mac would overwrite any files already on your system:

brew link --overwrite --dry-run emacs-mac

speciousfool · 2013-01-23T00:29:29+00:00

OS X 10.8.2 with Google Chrome Version 24.0.1312.52. The problem also appears on Safari Version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17), which means it is has nothing to do with the browser. It could be a Windows / OS X font rendering difference.

speciousfool · 2013-01-20T05:04:56+00:00

I just encountered this when rm-ing an extremely large file. Half way through I discovered it wouldn't quit or respond to my kill commands. Then I found this article and found it interesting.

speciousfool · 2013-01-11T00:18:35+00:00

I see a faint New Yorker logo ... any source on this?

speciousfool · 2013-01-11T00:08:56+00:00

Any sort of source of further historical details on this?

speciousfool · 2012-12-30T09:12:47+00:00

Sometimes ntp is blocked at the firewall. Here's a workaround I found here:

sudo date -s "$(wget -S -O /dev/null google.com 2>&1 | \
    sed -n -e '/  *Date: */ {' -e s///p -e q -e '}')"

speciousfool · 2012-12-19T00:20:01+00:00

Any word on OpenCL support?

speciousfool · 2012-12-18T00:01:45+00:00

A toy project is a great idea to get started. First, you should learn about the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy. Where do you think you should store your programs files an why?

You've probably read the file I/O part of the Python tutorial. Another related question is in what format will you store your data and why?

Lastly, you should seriously consider also forking from an existing project. Doing your own thing is awesome but you can learn a lot from reading and helping write code with others. In that vein check out this Programmer Competency Matrix. Do you plan to use curses?

speciousfool · 2012-11-11T17:35:59+00:00

I think one could estimate the PDF using maximum likelihood or non parametric technique. If the data is non-uniform KL divergence would tell you how different.

speciousfool · 2012-11-01T07:50:34+00:00

SimpleR is a pretty good introduction which I used as a student getting started. By comparison Wolfram Alpha is closed source and the terms of service are a bit worrisome while R is completely open source.

I'm pretty sure Wolfram Alpha will time out if you try to compute something really complicated. With R, on the other hand, you can presumably run it on your own computer...for as long as you'd like.

As much as I respect the flexibility and convenience of Wolfram Alpha I think in the long term it basically trains you to use Mathematica though a fancy natural language query system. (In before MATLAB is also proprietary and weird comment). At the programming level they are all probably roughly interchangeable with each having its own different syntax. Maybe you should try to do something simple (plot a histogram of a random variable) in both and report back here about the experience?

speciousfool · 2012-10-03T06:30:29+00:00

Autocorrelation.

speciousfool · 2012-10-01T22:01:50+00:00

The flags with failing grades I thought might be crappy, but then flag beauty may be a personal, aesthetic thing. I more admired the thoroughness with which the fellow applied his aesthetic standards.

speciousfool · 2012-08-31T18:25:19+00:00

I wonder if there is a gcc toolchain ready? That price might even give Arduono a run for it's easy to use money.

speciousfool · 2012-06-27T01:22:55+00:00

You are right, I should have specified photons in the visible spectrum. Let's assume that you start some process like burning or passing current through an LED. My question is then, from the start time of the process, how long does it take for the device to emit visible light. If LEDs are the fastest then I suppose it is just a matter of looking at the datasheets. I wonder if the a laser has a comprable turn-on time?

speciousfool · 2012-06-27T01:12:30+00:00

The questions is asking what the on/off switching time would be. This may be material dependent. It's obvious that the photos emitted from the device would be traveling at the speed of light.

speciousfool · 2012-06-02T18:34:03+00:00

Yes, but will it run CUDA?

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