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Congratulations everyone. It's great to see some new names on the list, as well as the return of old ones.
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Those of us so honored are all following the footprints your exceptional contributions, over so many years, leave behind !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Congratulations ! 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Sean has been spotted during the traditional newyear dive in Belgium: Nieuwjaarsduik[^]
(with his brother if I'm not mistaken) 
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My very special greetings to all the MVPs. 
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Because they wanted to grow mold together.
In absence of the the TOTD, I'm bringing you the Dad Joke Of The Day.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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I am fairly certain that this quality of joke is punishable by a minimum of 5+ years hard labor. Just saying... 
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Or simply, "This account has been closed."
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Ouch - tough crowd
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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or a lifetime of marriage.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yeah, I didn't realize when I said "Until death do us part", that I was setting a goal for myself. 
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Now that was hilarious!
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Yes, it is true that the reason men die younger than their wives is because the want to.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I can use my LALR(1) code perhaps, adapting it to generate viable prefixes for LL(k)
LR(anything) and LL(k for k>1) i think? share a sister theory here?
Or so it seems to me.
I need a viable set of what can come first in a production:
foo bar baz
foo baz bar
foo bar
baz
and what can follow it, which I think? I can also get by generating viable prefixes.
I also might be able to use the trick of generating it as a state machine to render my matching code.
holy socks batman.
if i'm right about this, then why didn't the academics just say so without all that ridiculous math? 
I might be able to use code I've already written to do stuff I though I didn't know how to do. I gotta try this. WOW
I think I just leveled up.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: if i'm right about this, then why didn't the academics just say so without all that ridiculous math?
Because that's what academics do, given that it's all they know. I've solved a few really complex problems that the academicians were totally unable to. In one case, I took a multi-spectral image analysis that took minutes to run on a single video frame, realized all they were doing was an absurdly complicated lookup algorithm, and turned it into a real time mapping, all within the vertical refresh period of the video stream.
Never trust academics!
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I never took CS, because i never went to college, but i do remember reading that academics typically treat math as purely "functional" and stateless, and leave things like lookup tables to practice rather than theory.
I hate to defend them, but this might be such a case. I initially ran into a similar issue implementing finite state machines from something theoretical.
But yeah I don't necessarily trust them either. Real world experience will kill pure theory, but having both is really the key to writing great code, I think, at least when it's complicated. Being able to subject your code to a rigorous mathematical treatment seems to have its advantages in terms of behavior diagramming and testing.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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A mathematician dealing with an algorithmic problem will be as suited as a software developer dealing with a mathematical problem. Horses for courses. It's like the old story where the old guy meets a neurosurgeon and asks him to take a look at his sore back.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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When I was taking CS, the mandated math courses were second year calculus and linear algebra. I haven't used either since. A complete waste of time in my opinion, unless you're a numerical analysis weenie or something.
What I found truly useful, and have used many times since, were combinatorics and graph theory. And abstract algebra to some degree.
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Greg Utas wrote: unless you're a numerical analysis weenie or something
And you have a problem with us numerical analysis weenies...?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No problem at all!
Just that you're weenies. 
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It is just a matter of your problem space. I have used both calculus and linear algebra extensively over the years. I probably know those better now than when I studied them in school. After writing a few template-based vector and matrix classes, I definitely know the LA better now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Absolutely. I guess we gravitate to what we enjoy. Are those p-orbitals in your image?!
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I only know it as the SuperShape. I call that one the "swollen asterisk." It is a truly amazing mathematical construct.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
modified 3-Jan-20 15:55pm.
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That's the trick: applying (and enjoying). Uni was all equations and abstract exercises and videos.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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