Vitaly

is that something on par with the later Project Euler problems, easier (and therefore more robust) or harder?

what exactly are the mathematical algorithms used to navigate using that model?

e.g. how did they build a model of the landing area when the rover was taking pictures of it just before landing?

@MattЭллен the best part of any such enterprise for the onlookers is that it's so fascinating to try and understand how exactly they solved so many engineering problems, particularly the programming ones

Night.

> School isn’t about learning “material,” school is about learning to accept workplace domination and ranking, and tolerating long hours of doing boring stuff exactly when and how you are told.

@Cerberus You only say that because noöne has developed a toolbar for the notification area yet.

@Cerberus: You'll love this: dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/…

workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe

Ah, yes:

@Mitch I'm just aware that some even went so far as to visit this very room. I have been struggling to find that in the transcript for the last few minutes. No luck, sorry. People in the Ubuntu room might have a better idea.

@ΜετάEd Yes.

@KitFox Hmmm, I might have drank too much tea with scones.

OK, thanks.

@KitFox No, I just want the link.

Incidentally, hey @Kit, I forget, what was that Harry Potter book you loved?

But you left at that point without clarifying whether you were getting the search field.

Namely, this text field should appear on the main page:

@ΜετάEd Oh, and I wanted to mention that if you enter an invalid library card number in OED Online, it explicitly tells you that the card number is rejected. When it is accepted, it does redirect you to the main page, which is only slightly different from the page you get when you are not logged in.

@JSBձոգչ The thing is, I am not sure I would find the word prodigy applicable in this case because programming does seem relatively easy (compared to what is usually expected of prodigies), at least for automation tasks and not Project-Euler-type problems.

@SonicTheHedgehog Irrelevant. When I was going to university, there was a student who was only 14 and was capable of writing a compiler for his own language. There are many people on the Web in approximately that age range who are like that.

@SonicTheHedgehog Well, I know some programmers who are also religious; and it isn't that difficult. So that was a legitimate possibility.

Oh. I see.

@SonicTheHedgehog Oh? What language have you written it in?

Works wonders.

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For anyone else who would rather read text:

> 368,379 people killed, 306,096 injured and over $2,815,931,000 in economic damages

@SonicTheHedgehog For your information, I believe most of us are not singling the religious folk out. We also find various other kinds of related behavior erm... silly. Feel free to peruse the website at your own leisure.

Yeah, I would expect something as... erm... silly as throwing people into fires or letting children die from lack of medicinal care. Alack-a-day!

@Cerberus Not all of it. Specifically the parts where he insists that he is Catholic and praises Catholic values.

@Cerberus Have you read Mein Kampf?

Also, non sequitur.

If the fact that you won't fly if you jump off a building is in those 10 discovered per cent, you might as well try and not believe that you will.

@SonicTheHedgehog And the Universe stands indifferent to those differences in opinions. If someone believes that they will fly if they jump off a building, the laws of physics aren't going to start quoting the human line that “everyone is entitled to their opinion.” They aren't human. They aren't social. They don't care about primate hierarchy in human societies. They are the ultimate judge of what's true and what isn't.

And I give up on trying to find that footnote.

Me neither.

Not what I had in mind though. Still trying to find that footnote.

> Indeed, for some speakers (primarily AmE) one can itself be the antecedent for a personal pronoun anaphor: i. %What is one to do when he is treated like this? ii. %One should do their best to ensure that such disputes are resolved amicably. Examples like [i] are now less common than they used to be, in like with the general decline in the use of the purportedly sex-neutral he. Type [ii] is quite rare: singular they is not well-established as anaphor to one.

All right, here's what I got so far (somewhat related):

I might as well try to find it now.

In The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language in a footnote, IIRC.

@tchrist I do remember reading something about dialectal variation in the grammaticality of using both one and they to refer to the same entity.

Oh.

@SonicTheHedgehog You have written a game? In what language?

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not waving the question off. It's just you are more likely to get a reasonably full answer there, unless someone present here is a geneticist.)

@Mitch I don't disagree that most of the irreligious are just as irrational, by the way. But then I wouldn't try to play by the rules with those either.