Recent content by randumb

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    Why do poor people always rationalize why they don't have things outside their means?

    I think food is an exception because taste is too subjective. I can see someone enjoying a $10 fresh lobster tail with butter more than a $50 haute cuisine lobster dinner.
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    A math question about business calc

    f(x)=2x f'(x)=2 f''(x)=0 f(x)=6x^2 f'(x)=12x f''(x)=12
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    Free PC Games

    Sorry, I haven't checked this thread in a while. I'll PM the mods to see about a sticky.
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    Does mac still have an advantage over PCs in art/media work?

    Some people prefer the feel of Photoshop on Mac because there's no need for a container window.
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    How much does "who you know" affect college admissions?

    I wrote all my essays in one day.
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    How much does "who you know" affect college admissions?

    But...but...we have Leslie Valiant! :P
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    756*

    :laugh:
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    Publix (supermarket) to offer 7 popular prescription antibiotics FOR FREE!!!

    Nobody is arguing that overuse of antibiotics doesn't decrease their efficacy. The point is that you disregard all the benefits of Publix providing no cost antibiotics because you think that there will be some massive stockpiling issue. The only proof you offer that such stockpiling occurs...
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    Cop shoots at snake, kills boy, 5

    He should be charged with criminally negligent homicide.
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    [minirant] wtf MATLAB, WTF!

    Yeah, I'm actually trying to convert everyone at MIT to inferior tools. Then we can finally defeat them using MATLAB. Muahaha. :D
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    [minirant] wtf MATLAB, WTF!

    MATLAB actually began as a wrapper for LINPACK and EISPACK. What you're probably thinking of is Maple's engine being added to MATLAB to give it some symbolic capabilities.
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    [minirant] wtf MATLAB, WTF!

    R is often seen as a statistical computing language, but it can be used to do a lot of general numerical analysis work. I've done of a lot of prototyping of machine learning algorithms in R and I find the syntax significantly cleaner. There are also tons of nice UIs for R available. There is...
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    [minirant] wtf MATLAB, WTF!

    There are plenty of other tools available that are better IMO. In bioinformatics research for example, R has become extremely popular.
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    2 Abrams tanks vs. 10,000 Chinese cavalrymen: Who would win?

    It's no more ridiculous than the entirely imaginary and impossible axioms that people are spouting. Can real tanks have unlimited fuel or ammo? No. Can real tanks shoot nonstop without their guns overheating? No. Can real tanks operate perfectly mechanically? No.