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Oh no... I used his work on nearest positive semidefinite matrices and liked to read his blog. In my opinion, he was very good in explaining his research.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/white-flame/eurisko/blob/main/src/EUR

Great project! It could be the bigger brother of the egg bot: https://egg-bot.com/

I can't speak for this use case, but in many other places, one isn't even using a PRNG, but rather Quasi-Monte Carlo techniques with no randomness at all. Monte Carlo doesn't need randomness, but a good coverage of the search space.

What has always fascinated me about playing music in my head is that it can be background music to my inner voice, i.e. they seem to be on different channels.

Haven't downvoted, but the "continuously" in "continuously differentiable" refers to the derivative and not to the function itself. (Also, from differentiable follows continuous, but not the other way around (sufficient, but not necessary).)

> Knowing how it is done makes it _more_ impressive to me.

I agree to an extent: The choice of the number in his ACAANs makes me always wonder how he would recover from a "bad" spectator.

What always impressed me even more was Tamariz' handling of the Mnemonica stack. For example, he could ask to name a card and could immediately bring it to the top of the stack with one cut in a second.

When I hear that site's name, I am always immediately reminded of Nemester: https://zapatopi.net/nemester/

And the acquisition of Doubleclick was very helpful for that product...

However, we are not talking about Bach, but about Einstein's knowledge of epistemology and that he certainly was well versed in that subject and didn't make such a basic mistake as you alluded to.

Einstein knew the works of Schopenhauer quite well and for sure didn't make this mistake. Furthermore, most of the Physicists back then were most likely influenced by Kant or Mach (Einstein called himself his student in letters to him).

This doesn't look unusual. I count 13 commands and Indy 3 had e.g. 14. If my memory serves well, that was quite normal.

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This reminds me of -- I think -- Arthur Whitney, who prefers to program in C in four windows of notepad.exe. If it works for them, why not?

Someone brought either the cabinet or the content of it to the collector. Most likely, they are the source of the number of cabinets.

Thanks, I noticed the same in my second edit. Also, Christmas vacation and - to a certain extent - the summer months are quite visible.

Yes, this looks quite likely given the peaks consistently on Saturdays (at least at the end of the series where I checked it).

If you zoom in on the graph, you can see oscillatory behaviour / noise. Would anyone know where this is coming from? It is almost like they are measuring an analogue signal and have a 50/60Hz hum on it...

Edit: I just remembered seeing something similar related to rounding a floating point signal once. Maybe that is the reason behind it.

Edit 2: Peaks seem to fall on Saturdays, so maybe this corresponds to people turning on their computers/routers at home more often on the weekend.

Not exactly US-specific, but Streetview isn't available everywhere. How would he have found the exact location without it? Would be quite interesting!

Program synthesis through optimal control or directly through algorithms like A* sounds fun and interesting. If I may, I would suggest to either comment your code or add more details to your README.md, because it is currently quite difficult to understand what exactly is being done here and how.

What is actually the task here? Parsing is clear and it looks like one has to sum all parsed timestamps, but what does the additional comment about the shortest time mean?

I guess that you couldn't be fingerprinted by Google.

It is a pity that Aristotle's second book of "Poetics" doesn't seem to be among the books found there.

Thanks for the reply, good to know that!

I would like to extract text from approximately 2000 PDF files (machine generated, not scanned) in which the layout can be different on a file basis. Some have normal paragraphs, others two columns and even three columns. All contain tables, but I am not interested in them. Do you know a good (semi-)automatic solution for this?

The capital delta acts like a "normal" derivative if you want to say so. In eq. 4, you can see the product rule which is one of the most defining features for any sort of calculus. However, I must admit that this summary will take me a lot of time to digest...

Écalle's own summary can be found here: https://www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr/~jean.ecalle/fich...

I only know Peter Mitterhofer...

I have recently read "The Little Learner" and was quite amazed how much I knew already just because I know APL/J. With the right libraries, these vector languages would be perfect for neural network / deep learning tasks.

This might be of interest to you (in case you haven't seen it already): https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3200851/