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The worse belief is that science has anything to do with belief. Or, I believe so...

Just use an unsupported browser (Opera)!

Honoured Sir,

Understanding you to be a distinguished algebraist (that is, distinguished from other algebraists by different face, different height, etc.), I beg to submit to you a difficulty which distresses me much.

If x and y are each equal to 1, it is plain that

2 * (x^2 - y^2) = 0, and also that 5 * (x - y) = 0.

Hence 2 * (x^2 - y^2) = 5 * (x - y).

Now divide each side of this equation by (x - y).

Then 2 * (x + y) = 5.

But (x + y) = (1 + 1), i.e. = 2. So that 2 * 2 = 5.

Ever since this painful fact has been forced upon me, I have not slept more than 8 hours a night, and have not been able to eat more than 3 meals a day.

I trust you will pity me and will kindly explain the difficulty to Your obliged,

Lewis Carroll.

It doesn't matter anyways.

The Wikipedia has a good article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule

It's not prior knowledge but a prior conjecture. If you know something, you know it for sure.

The original Wired article was posted five days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1770444

A good example of a priori knowledge: "All bachelors are unmarried". This is true, because it's so by definition, it's probability == 1. The effect of boxing is not so obvious as you claim (prior probability that repeat head trauma causes damage: <1), and should be verified. See also roel_v's responses in this sub-thread.

It's like homeopathy. No analysis necessary, it's just works, you know.

Good idea. They already do it.

They say, it depends on personality. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test

Platforms differ, and the limits.h reflects this, that's the point. We should use the abstractions (the #defines) of the standard library, i.e. refer to these values by their names, that's the way to write portable software.

The "limits.h" (ISO C99 Standard) defines UINT_MAX as the maximum value for a variable of type unsigned int which is 4294967295 (0xffffffff).

I found two similar posters, maybe you'll find interesting:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/Computer...

http://log-rotation.jp/pyblosxom/images/unix/programming_lan...

Here is a good (and long) overview from the NASA with wind tunnel simulator Java applets: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/right2.html

For Win and Mac... Thanks.

We need an analogue of 'robots.txt' for the real world.

Principal principles.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/principal.html

Voila:

"The ultimate reason for the lower Japanese body esteem may perhaps concern broader cultural and historical perspectives. Being part of the West, but non-Caucasians, Japanese people seem collectively to experience high incongruence between their Western-oriented bodily ideals and the perceptions of their own body. "

Japanese body image: Structure and esteem scores in a cross-cultural perspective by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel, in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 2002, 37 (3), 149–159

http://www.sjsu.edu/people/jennifer.anderson/courses/c5/s1/K...

You are right. edanm asked for some evidence that there are idiots who think Japanese worship white people. It seems there are many, so the article really targets an existing problem. That's the point.

Look at this: http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:answers.yahoo.com+J...

Racket has something similar. You can insert images to the source code, draw new images to the REPL, etc.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html

rubypay's link above works, and pretty fast...

http://www.rubypay.com/google/Google.htm

The bird watching doesn't count?

It's efficiency is ~85%, according to the Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization