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Man-Eating-Cats

by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Philip Gabriel

Source

I bought a newspaper at the harbor and came across an article about an old woman who had been eaten by cats. She was seventy years old and lived alone in a small suburb of Athens -- a quiet sort of life, just her and her three cats in a small one-room apartment. One day, she suddenly keeled over face down on the sofa -- a heart attack, most likely. Nobody knew how long it had taken for her to die after she collapsed. The old woman didn't have any relatives or friends who visited her regularly, and it was a week before her body was discovered. The windows and door were closed, and the cats were trapped. There wasn't any food in the apartment. Granted, there was probably something in the fridge, but cats haven't evolved to the point where they can open refrigerators. On the verge of starvation, they were forced to devour their owner's flesh.

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Curves drawn by randomly placing actors on the canvas, and walking them in a direction determined by the perlin noise function at their location. The continuity of the underlying noise function causes paths to converge together.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent people and of unhappiness. He lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, four wives and an unknown number of failed romantic relationships, none of which would help him to develop happiness if he knew how.

As Hemingway's quote was based on his life experience, I will base the following speculation on both my personal and my professional experience as a sociologist. Not enough study exists to quote on this subject.

Western society is not set up to nurture intelligent children and adults, the way it dotes over athletes and sports figures, especially the outstanding ones. While we have the odd notable personality such as Albert Einstein, we also have many extremely intelligent people working in occupations that are considered among the lowliest, as may be attested by a review of the membership list

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import euler.Functions._
import scala.math._

val q = "What is the smallest positive " +
        "number that is evenly divisible by " +
        "all of the numbers from 1 to 20?"    

def hasDivisors(n:Long, divisors:Seq[Long]) = {
  divisors.filter(n%_ > 0).isEmpty
}

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% produce a list, the elements of which are each lists of
% length 'Depth' of less forming sorted, equally sized bins
% of the numeric input list L
% the last bin will be of size (Depth rem length(L))
equal_size_bins (L,Depth) ->
  [tuple_to_list(X) || X <- equal_size_bins_sorted(lists:sort(L),Depth)].

equal_size_bins_sorted (L,Depth)
  when Depth >= length(L)
    -> [list_to_tuple(L)];

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def equibin(a:Seq[Double], depth:Int) = {    
  val d = a.size/depth
  (0 until a.size) // ordered set of indexes of all values
  .groupBy(i=>i/d).values.toList.sortBy(s=>s(0)) // split set into 'd' separate lists
  .map { group => group.map( i => a(i) ) } // map onto value set
  .map { values => ( (min(a),max(a)), values ) }// each bin gets min-max metadata
}

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Usage: topk [key-column-name] [score-column-name]

Reads tsv rows, including a header row, from stdin.
Writes to stdout the top 10 rows per distinct value of the given key column.

Author Dietrich Featherston
"""

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Each curve follows 2d perlin space at a different, but nearby, z axis. The result is the appearance of topology as curves expose gradients in noise function.