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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Do you know all your times tables (multiplication tables)? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2011, 9:21 am
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| R is a good stats program, but it's slow on a lot of tasks. For basic arithmetic you can use any program you like equally well (you could even use Python if you really wanted to) but for computationally intense tasks, especially involving matrices, you might be better off with a language that handl... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Do you know all your times tables (multiplication tables)? |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2011, 8:25 pm
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| I remember most of them. I generally just do all my arithmetic in R though. Do you mean the statistical program R? I am really interested in it but have not gotten around to do much with it. Nothing thought about doing arithmetic with it though...I was thinking more bioinformatics and stuff like th... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Do you know all your times tables (multiplication tables)? |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2011, 7:58 pm
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| I remember most of them. I generally just do all my arithmetic in R though. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: How to learn Algorithms online? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 12:04 pm
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| Where can I learn how to do algorithms online? Find an algorithm you would like to implement, work on it until it works, and then make it as efficient as possible? I'd recommend starting with implementing some simple factorial algorithms, and then working your way up to dynamic programming. I'd per... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Windows Longhorn. WHY did they kill it? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 11:55 am
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Replies: 19
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| Windows 8 looks a lot like this (a flashy monstrosity). |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Windows Longhorn. WHY did they kill it? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 11:52 am
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Windows Longhorn. WHY did they kill it? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 11:52 am
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| My thoughts.... 1. Microsoft has a crash and burn practice that repeats regularly. Windows 95 was beta test garbage and 98 reflected a more polished version. Windows NT was garbage that Windows 2000 replaced. Windows ME and CE were laughed at. Windows XP was quite solid and was preferred over Windo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Write your view on these philosophies? |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 7:17 pm
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| Metaphysics? Largely junk. I'm not even convinced the pursuit of metaphysics could be anything but futile. Epistemology? An important, interesting field. Political Philosophy? Crap Philosophy Logic? Rigorous, and useful. Philosophy of Religion? Some of the worst gibberish ever written. The volumes ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: a free program to manually batch edit ID3 tags? |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2011, 7:01 pm
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Thanks, that worked even better than I thought it would  |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: a free program to manually batch edit ID3 tags? |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 9:00 pm
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| I've recently organised my music collection in Winamp. However, when I try organise my lectures Winamp creates a separate album for each lecturer, whereas I would like to just have one album containing all lectures. Does anyone know of a free program that will let me manually batch edit all my mp3's... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Anybody else here apolitical? |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 5:55 pm
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Replies: 29
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Politics actively pisses me off. I don't know anything about it, but I know what I hate  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tolkien fans? |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 5:54 pm
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Replies: 59
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| I love Tolkien, read the full LOTR twice in three weeks when I was nine |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why are there so many Atheists on WP? |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 5:36 pm
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| I'm a bitchy, cantankerousness atheist. I find it incredibly disturbing that a belief in Cloud Fairies is given such high status in Society, that Blasphemy is a crime in my country, that Religion is subverting Science in the US by demanding that it be treated as theory rather than hypothesis. As soo... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Does anyone else here do genetics? |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2011, 11:55 am
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| Genetic algorithms or genetic programming is NOT genetics (which is all about RNA and DNA). Rather it is a cartoon of natural selection. ruveyn I'm working with phylogenetic algorithms, and ones to determine sequences from micro-arrays using Euler paths, not the algorithms that mimic natural select... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Does anyone else here do genetics? |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2011, 7:40 pm
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| not yet, but I am currently implementing the bioinformatic algorithms into the language of my choice, so I'll get more out of my biochemistry and genetic modules :) I do have a question related to PCR though; is RT - PCR commonly used? it seems like it would be a very useful technique (I assume it c... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Programming: What do you like about it? |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2011, 7:32 pm
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| I enjoy the mental kick you get from having a "eureka" moment while programming, or gaining a deeper insight into math and logic through their applications. It's also very rewarding when are struggling for hours with a tricky operation, and suddenly your code starts outputting valid answers. I recen... |
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