Around 0:29:10, probably the best explanation I've ever seen. It really just couldn't be made easier. And perhaps neither funnier. Explaining program logic: ‘Oh yes, the plus looks just fine. Ah, but the next thing here is a complicated thing, let's look at that. Oh yes, that's pretty fine too, they're both asterisks. Now… Whoops! My pattern variable! It matches against the three! <…> Ayes. X equals 3 and Y equals X…’
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–33°C outside. Added `south` to current project. At least my data will migrate to warmer place.
‘ The ability to take data, understand it, process it, extract value from it, visualize it and communicate it will be the hugely important skill next decade ’ — Journalism in the Age of Data, http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
‘ No matter what the spoken language may be, you can read hieroglyphs, a picture of a chair or what have you; makes no difference what you call it, right? You don’t need subvocal speech to register the meaning of hieroglyphs. Learning a hieroglyphic language is excellent practice in the lost art of inner silence. “It would be well, today, if children were taught a good many Chinese...
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‘ What keeps you from seeing what is in front of you? Words for what is in front of you, which are not what is there. As Korzybski pointed out: whatever a chair may be, it is not a “chair.” That is, it is not the label “chair.” ’
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The subvocal speech habit is hard to get rid off. Our thoughts are subvocal speech, and we, unfortunately, think too much (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...). ¶ I saw people ‘talking to themselves’ while reading Chinese—why? Why do you need to vocalize, when you can go directly from picture to meaning?
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Quote with little or no relation to general idea of the article. Badly spelled, pointless attempt to explain why have I shared it—usually two or three words such as ‘cool’ or ‘epic’ or ‘lol’.
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Never knew there’s a way to keep butter both fresh and soft at room temperature. http://cooking.stackexchange.com is full of discoveries.
‘ She is so child-like. You can tell she is so enthusiastic about music, she is an inspiration! Every single person should listen to Bjork's music and her views on things. ’ —lirvana1
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