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I live in a ruralish area--20 minute drive from the local university, but I'm surrounded by farms. I like the solitude and the space. I can't see any of my neighbors--the closest I…

What C++ unit testing framework are you using, and how do you like it? Is it easy to get started using it? Are there many footguns? I've used Boost in the past, but am debating whe…

I wonder if closed-access publishing is part of why academia seems so insluated from the "real world". People write for their audience, and if the general public can't read academi…

It doesn't matter how you get a copy of the paper; the citation is the same either way. Plenty of academics have been passing around PDF copies of papers their libraries don't buy …

You might find Idris's totality checking very interesting, if you haven't already seen it! http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/typesfuns.html...

It's more readable, but using std::function here introduces a second layer of indirection vs using a plain function pointer. More specifically, std::function's operator() is virtua…

Zotero will work the way it does with Chrome now: there will be a plugin that integrates with Zotero Standalone, which will continue to be developed using XULRunner. I think this w…

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html (Note that 'gnu' in the story is GNU Emacs!)

I suspect that the float frequency is generally equal to the AC frequency, but I suppose it may be possible for it to be some subharmonic of the switching frequency, assuming you'v…

Laptops are indeed powered off of DC, which means that there will be a constant voltage measured across the positive and negative pins of the MagSafe plug. However, the voltage mea…

> To avoid extracting irrelevant features, the TSFRESH package has a built-in filtering procedure. This filtering procedure evaluates the explaining power and importance of each ch…

Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here. Here's a long article on why this is a bad idea: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/

Last I checked, most places reimburse you about 50 cents/mile for vehicle depreciation and gas. Let's assume drivers pay 15% in taxes, just to make the math easy. $1 - 20 cents for…

Man, my newest car is 25 years old and I do all the maintenance on all of them (25 years, 30 years, and 32 years old) myself, aside from safety inspections and alignments. I recent…

I once fixed the alternator pulley on my 1984 VW Rabbit in the parking lot of a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming using nothing but JB Weld, zip ties, and a piece of …

For the Map-Reduce transformation, you require f(r(a,b)) = r(f(a),f(b)). This is equivalent to requiring r to be a homomorphism, I think. You could probably generalize that conditi…