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Re:Dry Water on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:52PM (#17963260)
A similar thing occured with LSD. It was only manufactured by Sandoz until the patents expired and the quantities manufactured exploded.
vorite quote "You can often view glimpses of ingeniousness... not as inexplicable miracles, but as the residue of experience." Did he pen that one or borrow it from someone else?

Although I can't say it hasn't been said before, that's a common theme in his videos.

Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:16PM (#17425388)
The same thing is a huge problem in OpenStreetMaps for me .
I disagree with this. Often what is gained from a proof is not the fact that a proof is known, but more insights about the original problem. So, a small technical error may "invalidate" a proof but it does not make it meaningless. Just like a bug in software does not make it worthless.
Re:I realized that derivatives are linear on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @10:53AM (#17401023)
>Most of the other non-polynomial functions have an equivalent Taylor polynomial

_analytic_ functions have a Taylor _series_, but it would be incorrect to say that "most" functions have a taylor series, and a taylor series is not a polynomial.

Matrix attempts to be a solution to this
would recommend William Basinski - The Distintegration loops in this regard
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For further reading, LSD: My problem child by Albert Hofmann is also interesting
Re:The Dozenal Society of America on Sunday April 01, 2018 @10:12PM (#16731796)
Isn't that their entire argument?
Re:How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:13AM (#16250226)
>Yet there's still one small simplification that can be made: the condition in the inner loop doesn't need "!= '\0'".

I believe this would cause the newline not to be printed in the unknown command error, so it is necessary.