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Comment · 7 months ago
Brilliant. So now you have no clutter but your office looks like it has chicken pox.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very excited to give this a try!
Comment · 3 years ago
A house is just a big box really. Why do humans love boxes so much?
Comment · 3 years ago
The technique is called volume rendering. I'm not sure what library they specifically use but a popular one is VTK.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wish this was around when I was a student!
Comment · 8 years ago
I also mentally started thinking about integral solutions. I wonder if it's also because of the variable names... a,b,c tend to be used to represent integers (e.g. Fermat's Last Theorem, Euclid's algorithm etc).

x and y are more commmonly used to represent real numbers.

Comment · 9 years ago
Google Flights also tells you when a particular flight is often subject to delays. Very handy.
Comment · 9 years ago
F# version that fits in a tweet:

  let r,n=Random(),1e7
  let d()=(r.NextDouble()-0.5)**2.0
  [0.0..n]
  |>Seq.sumBy(function _ when d()+d()<0.25->4.0/n|_->0.0)
  |>printfn "%f"
Comment · 10 years ago
If.
Comment · 10 years ago
No, I was just giving some examples. If you follow your logic the UK needn't worry about not having a trade deal with the EU.
Comment · 10 years ago
I happen to agree we should have an election, but I would point out:

1) Unlike EU commissioners, people can vote Theresa May out at the next general election. 2) The UK has a parliamentary democracy. It is not a presidential system. Theresa May was elected by her constituents. 3) Of the 14 prime ministers since the end of the Second World War, half of them (including Theresa May) assumed office between elections.

Comment · 10 years ago
Ok but the numbers you quoted assumed a linear relationship.

In no way is it "almost certain" that investment in the UK will decrease. The evidence currently suggests the complete opposite. Look at the performance of the FTSE100 since the referendum to see the flood of foreign investment coming into the UK listed companies thanks to the weaker currency.

I'd also point out that decreasing tax rates is the exact opposite of what the chancellor said he would do before the referendum.

Comment · 10 years ago
Chile, Switzerland and Iceland all have free trade agreements with China. The EU doesn't.
Comment · 10 years ago

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