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bfrankline

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About bfrankline

Current AARP member (former computer science professor)

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    Are you in the United States? Many libraries loan digital goods, e.g., books, music, movies, and even software.

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    Comment #47752074

    In numerical analysis, elementary function membership, like special function membership, is ambiguous. In many circumstances, it’s entirely reasonable to describe the natural logar…

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    Comment #44943254

    > Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. How do you thin…

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    Comment #43040950

    Yet people love Medicare and Medicaid.

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    Comment #42637096

    My wife is writing a novel.

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    Comment #39339391

    Sure, but I think, for example, representation learning, doesn’t involve manipulating an array of strings.

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    Comment #39211880

    I’d bet this was funded by the Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) initiative.

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    Comment #33471521

    If you care exclusively about numerical stability and performance, why _this_ set of operators (e.g., there’re plenty of good reasons to include expm1 or log1p and certainly trigon…

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    Comment #31297535

    It was very primitive. It was essentially a mechanism for composing operations on vectors. I don’t know for certain but I would guess that it was inspired by IBM and their work on …

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    The most popular today outside of the shell environment is the statistical environment “S.” John Chambers would recreate it as “R” and I understand that it’s very popular and does …

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    The other environment that is still popular today is the “statistical environment” that Rick Becker, Allan Wilks, and John Chambers created. It eventually became “S” and John would…

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    I was at Bell during the options “debate.” I think something that this otherwise wonderful article misses is that some believed that commands were never intended to be the only way…