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Comment · 1 year ago
Casual sentences and mathematics/logic don't go very well together, and lead to ambiguities and interpretation if there are no clear rules defined beforehand. This reminds me of those silly problems that circulate on TikTok with a series of additions and multiplications. The "correct" result depends on how you assume the operations precedence. Here, does "being a liar" mean that we have to take as a true statement the negation of "all my hats are green"? If so, is that "NOT all my hats are green"? How does that translate back to the mathematics realm? Is it {total_hats>0, green_hats>=1}, or is it {total_hats>=0, green_hats>=0}?
Comment · 2 years ago
> Why would I ever use this instead of just using perl5

Because the syntax in Amber is way easier to grasp. For me that's a very strong selling point

Comment · 3 years ago
Some things that do work:

> write a haiku about a toaster

> write a haiku, then criticize it

> pad thai recipe

> can you korrect the spleeing errors in this sntence?

Comment · 7 years ago
AC is annty-christ
Comment · 7 years ago
Lisp is like the Latin of programming languages. Powerful, archaic, well-thought, elegant, venerable.
Comment · 7 years ago
I believe it was Dali
Comment · 8 years ago
I find it strange that people here are fixated with the solving software part. What's really cool to me in the project is the mechanical solution; fitting all the motors, axles, MCU, sensors and battery inside a customized cube.
Comment · 11 years ago
Why don't we see the Moon's shadow projected over the Earth in the pic? I guess it has to do with the relative distances of the 2 bodies to the Sun and the Moon's penumbra or something. Can someone make a digital image simulation of this to verify?
Comment · 11 years ago
So what are the real success/failure figures of the technique?
Comment · 11 years ago
Might be enough to just pretend they did
Comment · 12 years ago
The BSC has several interfaces. One of them is the APG, used for Operation & Maintenance. It's a Windows module, accessible by IP. The APG serves as a gateway to the node's core via MML (Man-Machine Language), the instructions to operate the node.
Comment · 12 years ago
As a spaniard myself, I can confirm this is an accurate description of what siesta looks like on most cases. Short nap on the couch after a coffee, for those who take lunch at home, or just on the weekends otherwise.
Comment · 12 years ago
Join a meetup.com group of movie lovers (or whatever you enjoy, but avoid too-geeky groups). Slowly get to know people attending the meetups. Just be nice. Don't be afraid to politely express your opinions. When you see someone that seems alone or new to the group, be the first to approach them. You can meet tons of interesting people this way.

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