Talk about fishing for expert help!
Thanks Guido.
It's a pruning algorithm where I strip way pieces that don't meet up at
(x,y,z) bridge points. Lots of symmetry about the origin so just pure
distance won't work (not unique enough).
I think might still get away with a tuple-indexed dict (t
Alas, you can't do that, and the problem isn't a deficiency of dicts,
but the fact that "almost equal" is not a transitive relationship.
Think about it. (Boy that brings back memories of math classes in
college, way, way, back, where a professor pointed this out casually
as an counter-illustration
So here's my situation. I have a set of XYZ tuples that'll come very close
to matching, most of them in pairs, but thanks to floating point, I can only
rely on "fuzzy equality" i.e. within a tolerance of say |e| per each x,y,z.
In other words, for all intents and purposes, I could consider (1.0,
OK, I think I'm getting some insight here, but something still doesn't
quite ring true for me.
I said:
>>I hear researchers say this at conferences, and I read it in the
>>literature about gender balance in computer science, but I still don't
>>understand it. Can you explain why when selecting
Just a couple of data points for the discussion.
My eight-year-old daughter loves math and computers and has asked me
how she can make her own computer games. I've tried showing her what
goes into making games and she lost interest for now. She also
writes stories, draws beautifully, inve
> -Original Message-
> From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Arthur
> Cc: 'Laura Creighton'; 'Radenski, Atanas'; 'Chuck Allison'; edu-
> I think that only people who thrive on playing with their
> mathematical intuition will love computer science and all
> higher math.
Hello Laura,
Saturday, October 8, 2005, 8:53:09 PM, you wrote:
LC> I think that only people who thrive on playing with their
LC> mathematical intuition will love computer science and all
LC> higher math. But most women do not work on developing one.
This is complicated nowadays by the fact that
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:32:01 EDT, Arthur writes:
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>
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>> > -Original Message-
>> > From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 9:52 PM
>> > To: Radenski, Atanas
> -Original Message-
> From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 9:52 PM
> > To: Radenski, Atanas
> > Cc: Arthur; Laura Creighton; Chuck Allison; edu-sig@python.org;
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 9:52 PM
> To: Radenski, Atanas
> Cc: Arthur; Laura Creighton; Chuck Allison; edu-sig@python.org;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kirby Urner; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Microsoft
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> From: Chuck Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 9:01 PM
> To: Laura Creighton
> Cc: Arthur; 'Kirby Urner'; edu-sig@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re[4]: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
>
> I find this very illuminating. To be
> But I have read plenty of research through math society publications
> that suggests that perhaps there is a genetic difference
> mathematically. The jury is still out, of course, but the numbers
> point that way. That's what the Harvard president in trouble, but the
> numbers are in his favor. I
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:25:57 PDT, "Radenski, Atanas" writes:
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>On
>> Behalf Of Arthur
>
>
>> Beauty is beauty, and is never useful.
>
>'Beautiful' is what gives us pleasure. (Things that give us pleasure
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:54:14 EDT, Arthur writes:
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>> Behalf Of John Zelle
>
>> I speak to women all the time, and when I ask them why they're not in
>> CS, they tell me it's because they don't like
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:31:46 CDT, John Zelle writes:
>As usual, I don't have time to comment on all the intriguing things that
>have come out of this thread. But gender balance is something that I've
>spent a lot of time thinking about and working on as regards our own
>program. So
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
> Behalf Of Arthur
> Beauty is beauty, and is never useful.
'Beautiful' is what gives us pleasure. (Things that give us pleasure can
be useful at times, perhaps.)
I am curious why computers do not seem to give e
> -Original Message-
> From: Chuck Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 9:06 PM
> To: Arthur
> Cc: 'Laura Creighton'; 'Kirby Urner'; edu-sig@python.org;
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> Subject: Re[4]: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
Chuck writes -
> That's what the Harvar
Hello Arthur,
Saturday, October 8, 2005, 6:27:41 PM, you wrote:
A> Not getting it. Beauty is beauty, and is never useful. Why is there a
A> rejection in the women's culture of this particular form of useless beauty?
A> But there are 2 important things to reject, I believe:
A> That women are s
Hello Laura,
Saturday, October 8, 2005, 5:01:16 PM, you wrote:
LC> Why females shy away from math and science is no big mystery. It is
LC> deemed 'not useful' by them. See many posts by Anna Ravenscoft on the
LC> subject here in edu.sig archives. These days she is 'Anna Ravenscroft
LC> Martell
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of John Zelle
> I speak to women all the time, and when I ask them why they're not in
> CS, they tell me it's because they don't like computers. I've never ever
> had one tell me they didn't find compute
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:27:41 EDT, Arthur writes:
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>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 7:01 PM
>> To: Chuck Allison
>> Cc: Arthur; 'Kirby Urner'; 'Laura Creighton'; edu-sig@python.org;
>> [EMAIL PROTECTE
> -Original Message-
> From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 7:01 PM
> To: Chuck Allison
> Cc: Arthur; 'Kirby Urner'; 'Laura Creighton'; edu-sig@python.org;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
>
>
> Why females
As usual, I don't have time to comment on all the intriguing things that
have come out of this thread. But gender balance is something that I've
spent a lot of time thinking about and working on as regards our own
program. So I felt compelled to say something.
Laura Creighton wrote:
> Why femal
> -Original Message-
> From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 7:01 PM
> To: Chuck Allison
> Cc: Arthur; 'Kirby Urner'; 'Laura Creighton'; edu-sig@python.org;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
> In Sweden we ha
that I had.
---
Wulfmann
Wulf Credo:
Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack.
Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between.
Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark.
-
I think it misses 'appreciate beauty, defend the weak and opr
Why females shy away from math and science is no big mystery. It is
deemed 'not useful' by them. See many posts by Anna Ravenscoft on the
subject here in edu.sig archives. These days she is 'Anna Ravenscroft
Martelli' having married Alex Martelli. (Hi Anna. cc'd to you so as
to not talk behin
Do you know about PyPy? http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/news.html
It sounds to me as if you have the sort of upper level students that
would appreciate a compiler they can hack. We like students. JIT
goes in this week.
unashamed product announcement,
Laura
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct
> -Original Message-
> From: Chuck Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Arthur
> Cc: 'Kirby Urner'; 'David Handy'; 'Laura Creighton'; edu-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re[4]: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
>
> Hello Arthur,
>
> Saturday, October 8, 2005, 1:25:44 PM, you wrote:
>
> A> I recen
Hello Arthur,
Saturday, October 8, 2005, 1:25:44 PM, you wrote:
A> I recently read Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" - which was not the
A> book I was expecting it to be. It was more a book about business, and
A> organization to do business - and less a book about programming. He talks
A> un
> -Original Message-
> From: Chuck Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 1:12 PM
> To: Kirby Urner
> Cc: 'Arthur'; 'David Handy'; 'Laura Creighton'; edu-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re[2]: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
>
>
> About Arthur's "affiliated" comments,
Hello Arthur,
Friday, October 7, 2005, 5:56:09 PM, you wrote:
A> Back to David's point. There is no denying that there is politics alive in
A> the public schools hurting education. As a damn good "for example" would be
A> the notion that math and science, according to some vocal segment, needin
Hello Kirby et al,
Here in Utah we have the newly formed Neumont University, which is
largely supported by MSFT and IBM. In 2.5 years students get a
"bachelors" in CS. I put it in quotes because, having visited them and
heard their spiel and studied their offerings, I believe they are
skimping on
Thanks Chuck, good info and insights. I think a lot of CS degree paths
featured watered down material. In a way that's good for philo majors like
me -- easier to compete with the grads of those programs when doing job
interviews around getting work with computer giants.
Kirby
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