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...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Feb 10, 2007 11:31 am
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...
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Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Feb 11, 2007 4:05 am
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...
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Omer Zak
w1@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:01 pm
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...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 22, 2007 5:27 am
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: ...
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Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Mar 22, 2007 7:36 am
... 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...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 22, 2007 6:34 pm
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...
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guy keren
choogalu
Mar 22, 2007 7:09 pm
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 ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 23, 2007 8:12 am
-- ... Shlomi Fish shlomif@... Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 23, 2007 3:08 pm
... 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 ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 24, 2007 1:14 pm
Hi Ido! ... OK. Sorry to hear that. Do you know what were the reasons for you receiving such bad grades? You seem like a smart guy, regardless of your other...
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Nir Simionovich
nir.simionovich
Mar 25, 2007 1:06 am
Hi All, Wow, this one even has me coming out of the bleachers, so I'll give my 2cents on the issue. I believe it is fairly easy for me to comment, as I had ...
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Adam Fine
fine.adam
Mar 25, 2007 1:06 am
I am pleased to announce that the Israeli Ruby Brigade has been unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. We're having our first meetup in two weeks. Further...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Mar 25, 2007 1:53 am
... Hey Nir, You're being very stereotypical. You're assigning properties to people's character based on their education. I would say that there are good...
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Micha Feigin
kamikaza_mic
Mar 25, 2007 5:05 pm
On 24 Mar 2007 06:14:53 -0700 ... It's not true that a degree gives you no real knowledge. Far from it. One of the big problems with people who are self taught...
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ik_5
Mar 25, 2007 7:55 pm
Hello Araik, I wish to highlight from advance, that I'm not going to attack you, and I really interested in answers (I hope you do not know what I'm talking...
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Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Mar 25, 2007 9:08 pm
... I like to point out parallels between free software and the academic world. In both worlds, people are judged and ranked by what they publish (source code...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Mar 25, 2007 11:25 pm
... It's Arik, Ido. ... I wasn't even close. I was an undergraduate student, I did work in the Technion Computer Center as a student, which is not the same as...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 26, 2007 6:42 am
Hi Arik and Ido and all! ... Just a note. You claim that "objectivism" is highly over-rated. Do you mean the philosophy of Ayn Rand (also referred to as...
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ik_5
Mar 26, 2007 8:11 am
... Sorry Arik, my bad. ... view. ... Actually that's wrong :) We have (in Israel) group of people that does not know how to code, but still contribute. They...
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Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Mar 26, 2007 8:16 am
... So, you claim that objective equals true? So what, in your view, is subjective (i.e., not objective)? Only lies? -- Nadav Har'El |...
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Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Mar 26, 2007 9:12 am
... If your statement is true (and I have strong objections to it), it is doubly true for free software activity. Writing free software requires either being...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Mar 26, 2007 9:32 am
... I never read Rand. I meant the indulgence in objectivity as if it is a real thing or even possible. ... How is that exactly objective? If you were a Mongol...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 26, 2007 9:35 am
... Well, not exactly. For example, I talked with someone on the IRC the other day, who said that ESR should be shot, because he supports the war on Iraq and...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Mar 27, 2007 6:29 am
... Heh. My first job ever (after graduating, I had a lot of odd jobs before), a friend of a friend told them to call me because of a particular interest I...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Mar 27, 2007 6:31 am
... Yes, I thought about the translators and tech writers after I sent the message. So if you want to be very inclusive, then the open source "community" which...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Mar 27, 2007 7:56 am
... OK. :-) ... It is objective because it is an accurate description of the factual data. Genghis Khan did kill many innocent people, not because he had to,...
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ik
ik_5
Mar 27, 2007 6:26 pm
OK, I will not answer most of what you have written (Even the one that you took out of context), I dissagree with you, and I guess we will not agree on the...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Mar 27, 2007 8:33 pm
... I just latched on to it because I wanted to make a point, meant no disrespect. ... Is statistics a university based information? It's scientific, and it's...
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Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi.ML@...
Mar 28, 2007 8:57 pm
I don't understand why you (plural) insist on associating studying in the university and work. While it is the most practical reason, many (and me) studied for...
