oxi day
By
gzt (Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 02:25:48 PM EST)
gzt,
esperanto,
french,
chess,
chicago,
eggs,
oxi day,
fascism (
all tags)
all right folks, it's OXI DAY. Just say no to fascists. or, rather, "Alors, c'est la guerre," to them.
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It's finally getting chilly here.
But at least we don't have
DOOOOM. All the best, East Coastians.
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printf/fprintf/whatever
why doesn't R have something like C's printf or MATLAB's fprintf? bastards. their "C-like sprintf" has some odd behaviors.
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Do you believe humans have landed on the moon?
Elsewhere on the internets, the antiscientific bent (against vaccines, against global warming, etc) has led me to wonder whether they believe humans have landed on the moon.
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I was, perhaps, too hard on them
By
gzt (Tue Oct 16, 2012 at 09:09:42 PM EST)
gzt,
esperanto,
science,
agriculture (
all tags)
I mentioned how the lesswrong folks talk big about being "Bayesians", but if that doesn't involve integrals of ugly prior distributions and whatevs, it doesn't mean anything. However, I noticed that, in a couple of their posts, they do, in fact, have ugly Bayes integrals.
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Bluetooth headsets and Vista
By
gzt (Tue Apr 07, 2009 at 11:49:43 AM EST)
gzt,
she was just seventeen,
esperanto,
skype (
all tags)
...don't play well together, it seems. I have an old bluetooth headset and, because of the amount of time I have been spending at home talking on my pay-as-you-go phone, I realized it'd be worthwhile to switch to a service like Skype for these calls rather than pay out the nose. But, apparently, Windows Vista just doesn't let you use bluetooth headsets at all. Ever.
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