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littleGreenDude wrote: Why is there no survey today?
5) All of the above
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[^] A remarkable person. Fine writing like this is too good not to share !Quote: A clue to the origins of Shannon’s genius can be found in the sheer scope of his intellectual interests. He was a peculiar sort of engineer – one known for juggling and riding a unicycle through Bell Labs’ corridors, and whose creations included a flame-throwing trumpet, a calculator called ‘THROBAC’ that operated in Roman numerals (short for ‘Thrifty Roman-Numeral Backward-Looking Computer’), and a mechanical mouse named Theseus that could locate a piece of metallic cheese in a maze. Genetics, artificial intelligence, computer chess, jazz clarinet and amateur poetry numbered among his other pursuits. Some of these predated his work on information theory, while he turned to others later in life. But what remained constant was Shannon’s ability to be as captivated by the capering spectacle of life and language as he was by physics and numbers. Information had begun, after all, as a philosophical term of art, and getting at its foundations entailed just the sort of questions we might expect a linguist or a philosopher to take up.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
modified 27-Nov-17 12:51pm.
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'Auricle' did I ear that correctly
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I plead vision problems, and being up to the gills in anti-inflammatories
thanks, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Then I confess being on antibiotics for a week (toothache)
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Well, all right, then, we've both done the righteous: we can hug like brothers again
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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If you're interested in Shannon, then I highly recommend this [^] book.
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Thanks ! I'm looking forward to reading.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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No friggin way. For starters it's cat .
veni bibi saltavi
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Or, you could backport your app to Win95 and have your users run the OS in JavaScript (you heard that correct)...
Win95 in JavaScript[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Or, you could backport your app to Win95 and have your users run the OS in JavaScript
That's, um, a possibility. Sadly:
Emulation aborted due to nested emulation timeout.
BTW, I've been watching this project for a year or so. OS.js - JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform Rather impressive.
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Marc Clifton wrote: That's, um, a possibility. Sadly:
Marc Clifton wrote: Emulation aborted due to nested emulation timeout. This for Win95? You try it in Chrome? That's the browser I used and it worked.
Marc Clifton wrote: BTW, I've been watching this project for a year or so That's cool. I like seeing this stuff too. Hopefully it'll be ported to WASM in the future.
Jeremy Falcon
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Are juveniles small rivers in Egypt?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's inSeine GRhone...
It is Amazon that you keep coming up with these.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
modified 27-Nov-17 11:43am.
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I presume you are out of your Living-stoned mind?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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How many Themes do I have to tell you: this stream of puns must stop.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Isis exactly the type of carrying ankh that will get you in trouble. I'm being quite Osiris about this.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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There ya go again, trying to turn the replies into a pyramid scheme.
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It's just a way to get stoned.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Trying to scarab me trying to obelisk-erate & take the ankh outta me?
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I was kinda surprised to see that someone downloaded code for a MFC article I wrote in 2005 (blinking cells in Chris Maunder's grid control). Are people really still coding in C++/MVC?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 27-Nov-17 9:49am.
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MVC or MFC? The latter is still being shipped with Visual Studio, so I assume there are still some MFC coders around
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Yeah, I meant MFC. I fixed it. :/
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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