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Sokal took too much for granted in his account of his prank. Indeed, his claim---that our publication of his article proves that something is rotten in the state of cultural studies---is as wobbly as the article itself.

… [I]t has been many years since [we] published … [general] debate about postmodern theory…. [W]e read it more as an act of good faith of the sort that might be worth encouraging than as a set of arguments with which we agreed.

Having talked to the (real) Sokal subsequently, we believe that … the [critiques] he intended to air are, at this point, rather well known to [our side]. Indeed, they have been going the rounds … since the first postmodern … critiques of positivism appeared over thirty-five years ago.… Nor are these critiques unfamiliar to folks who have long [debated] the direction of the Left, where positivism has had a long and healthy life. At this point in time, we have a vestigial stake in these critiques and debates, but much less of an interest than Sokal supposes. …[H]e appea

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https://twitter.com/Amber_Coffman/status/419635162230423552

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#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  char c;
  while ( (c = getchar()) != EOF) {
  putchar(c);
  }
  return 0;
}

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require(magrittr)
substitute(ver)
substitute(ver) %>% as.character
substitute(ver) %>% as.character %>% strsplit(NULL)
substitute(ver) %>% as.character %>% strsplit(NULL) %>% unlist
substitute(ver) %>% as.character %>% strsplit(NULL) %>% unlist %>% rev
substitute(ver) %>% as.character %>% strsplit(NULL) %>% unlist %>% rev %>% paste(collapse='')
substitute(ver) %>% as.character %>% strsplit(NULL) %>% unlist %>% rev %>% paste(collapse='') %>% do.call(args=list(1:5))

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#####TO DO: write a more reasonable S3 `cov.xts` and `cor.xts`

require(quantmod)
getSymbols(c('WOOD','CUT'))       #timber ETF's

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#  File src/library/stats/R/lm.R
#  Part of the R package, http://www.R-project.org
#
#  Copyright (C) 1995-2014 The R Core Team
#
#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#

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High-dimensional Euclidean space is ℝ×ℝ×ℝ×ℝ×ℝ×…. Cartesian product of many continuous quantities.

[](http://www.jqueryscript.net/slider/Create-A-Simple-iOS-Style-Slider-with-jQuery-CSS-UI-Slider.html "You are probably most familiar with “arbitrary-dimensional spaces” as “sliders”. Interesting that in the CSS / jQuery world the way it looks takes precedence over what it does. If only I could rework the logic of every slider on the planet……mayb

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function(data, n=10, ...) {
	NROW(data) -> nr
	sample.int(nr-n,1) -> start
	start + n -> end
	pull <- start:end
	data[pull, ,drop=FALSE]
}

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#start with six random coefficients for the quintic + a constant
start <- complex( modulus=1+rnorm(6,sd=.1), argument=1:6 )
twiddler <- function(x) complex(modulus=1, argument=x)

#there’s some bogus R nonsense about c() and list() coming…
swirl <- list(start)

#twiddle the 6 inputs around
for (j in 1:326/8) { swirl <- c( swirl, list( start + c(0,-8*twiddler(j)*j,0,8*twiddler(j)*j,0,0) ) ) }

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alias del='gvfs-trash'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias ack='ack-grep'
alias g='surfraw google'
alias wk='surfraw wikipedia'
alias def='surfraw google define:'
alias u='surfraw google unicode'
alias n='w3m http://ncatlab.org/nlab/search?query='
alias pdfcat='pdftotext'