One thing whose absence I sorely feel: An improved way to have apropos. I often need to accomplish a task, remember that there is some command which can be...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Oct 2, 2006 5:53 pm
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... [...] ... On debian, I frequently use "apt-cache search". When I don't know how to formulate the search I launch "synaptic" and try all the searches I can...
Hi, I am looking to learn data-mining. Can someone recommend some books/articles/etc... It should also include examples with tools that are commonly used. 10x....
Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Oct 11, 2006 3:21 pm
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If you answer Tzahi, please answer on Hackers-IL. I, too, am interested in the subject. Thanks, ... -- You haven't made an impact on the world before you...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Oct 11, 2006 6:10 pm
4731
this is the answer i got in whatsup: http://whatsup.org.il/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=34821&highlight=datamining I will be happy to hear on any...
Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Oct 12, 2006 3:10 pm
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This is a repost of my message from 21/9 (I was told it was rejected and I have to repost) comments relate to the "unixdoc" idea. rants--well, guess I was in a...
... Yes, I'm aware of GNU texinfo. I don't remember why I didn't include it. Perhaps it was out of due frustration from its limitations or the fact that I ...
... Driven away because of the frontend... exactly as I said in (3). info is only intuitive to Emacsers, and most of them read the info with the emacs frontend...
... ``info foo | less`` gives you the whole manual in one document. But this loses hyperlinks and gains nothing. As amit says, `Ctrl-S` and `/` work accross...
Hi all! This is a small mathematical diversion I've thought of introducing here for a long time. I once read a book of mathematics that made the following ...
... 1. The "situation puzzle" link on this page has funky CSS (when you go over the link, it gets a green background for a second, which immediately disappear,...
... Well, it's a :hover effect. On my Konqi 3.5.x and FF 1.5, it remains there as long as the mouse cursor is hovering over there. It uses the same CSS as most...
[Sending again because the original message did not arrive to the list after 20 hours]. See: http://shlomif.livejournal.com/20689.html for some link to a very...
I spotted this on Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/codesh/ Reading from the description: <<<<<<<< The CODESH (COllaborative DEvelopment SHell) project...
It all started when I noticed the following: 4*6 = 24 5*5 = 25 6*4 = 24 And that 24 was very close to 25. I wondered whether if I have a square a*a I can...
After I implemented the Math::GrahamFunction code to calculate the Graham Function using Perl ( http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/Math-GrahamFunction-0.01/ ), I...
I did not completly understand what is the situation you are describing but when you seem to describe the "Template Method Design Pattern". In this pattern you...
Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Jan 27, 2007 8:24 am
4746
I recommend the book "Head First Design Patterns" from O'REILLY to learn design patterns. The only problem i find with the book is actually a feature. The book...
Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Jan 28, 2007 2:34 am
4747
Hi all! After asking something on #lisp, someone recommended rlwrap to me: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/ It wraps the prompts of a command line apps...
I wrote about the algorithms' class NP and NP-Completeness here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/2654 A few weeks ago I learned about...
Check out some more weird stuff about Incremental-Polynomial complexity and Polynomial, but in the input AND output. This one we use in databases. i.e. even if...
Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Feb 11, 2007 4:05 am
4750
I am not mathematician, but I would like to offer two thoughts about the subject. 1. Mathematical description: You can describe flipping a 2-D object in a 3-D...
Omer Zak
w1@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:01 pm
4751
Hi all! Check: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/education/opinion-on-the-technion/ It's a web-page version of this old Hackers-IL post: ...
... For the sake of fairness, I would mention the department you studied in. Because my experience in the Math department couldn't be more different than the...
Hi Nadav! I'm BCCing this message to my friend, co-student and former partner from the Technion. Thanks for your email! I'll reply to your comments here and...
shlomi - i think you're a good example for a student that went to the wrong faculty. everything you seem to find interest in, falls under programming. you ...
... Perhaps. However, I don't regret taking EE instead of CS, because I learned a lot of new things I didn't know, and deepened my understanding of how ...