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//by Jo
//https://twitter.com/jn3008/status/1169671889121435656

// opensimplexnoise code in another tab is necessary
// --> code here : https://gist.github.com/Bleuje/fce86ef35b66c4a2b6a469b27163591e

void setup() {
  size(800, 600, P2D);
  smooth(8);
  noFill();

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// note : if you're on github gist and want to copy paste this code, you can click on the "Raw" button
// and then do Ctrl A, Ctrl C, Ctrl V

/*
 * OpenSimplex Noise in Java.
 * by Kurt Spencer
 * 
 * v1.1 (October 5, 2014)
 * - Added 2D and 4D implementations.
 * - Proper gradient sets for all dimensions, from a

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Freeman Dyson R.I.P.

Nu bijna een maand geleden al weer, zo aan het begin van de COVID-19 epidemie,terwijl wij ons allemaal aan het oriënteren waren op lock down alternatieven en hoe het normale leven er uit zou zien onder deze ietwat veranderende omstandigheden, op 28 februari 2020 is op 96 jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van het Corona virus, één van de laatste theoretisch natuurkundige wetenschappers die zichzelf opeen gelijke voet kon meten met wellicht bekendere zoals Dirac, Pauli, Heisenberg, Bohr, Einstein, Penrose, Bohm en Schrödinger;de onnavolgbare Freeman Dyson. In deze lijst van namen, gezamenlijk verantwoordelijk voor het leeuwendeel van alleinzichten die we gedurende de 20ste eeuw hebben opgedaan, bevindtzich slechtsPenrose nog onder de levenden op de zeer respectabele leeftijd van 88. Ik kende Freeman goed.

Ja, niet persoonlijk natuurlijk! Dat zou echt te veel eer zijn, nee ik kende hem van zijn presentaties. Zijn interviews, lezingen en discussies op internet. Van YouTube.Super

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A bunch of smart and intelligent individuals, having great productive dialogue.

Publicly.

Which requires, to make a list, of everything that makes great dialogue impossible...

The necessary assumptions to have a productive public denotational dialogue on any subject are:

0. The assumption that it's best to not write, only read.

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It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

As pointed threats, they bluff with scorn

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I liked the Bangles. What do I say, I adored them. How could you not, they were so cool. Eternal Flames Walking Like Egyptians and that rock song from the movie Less Than Zero. Time ... time ... time ... se what's become of me, etc. Wow! It were the 90s, the spring time of my live, old folks liked Simon & Garfunkel. I hated them.

Two decades later. I'm at a sun stroked, provincial hippie beach, Sicily, drinking espresso, rereading The Rules of Attraction, by Brett Easton Ellis; the radio starts to play A Hazy Shade of Winter, both Simon and Garfunkel in harmonics: "Time. Time. Time ... See what's become of me ... While I looked around ... For my posibilities ... I was so hard to please ... Now look around ... ", etc.

All of a sudden, I notice to my shock that my eyes have started to leak water. On that beach, being perfectly happy during a holiday, out of the blue and without me ever have connected the two versions. I start to cry. Cry. Me. I never cry.

I still don't understand why, what caused that em

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The Programming Languages Emojional Lexicon for Non-Programmers

• ⊤ : 'top, aka 'any, unconstrained; denotes "anything may apply".
• ⊥ : 'bottom, aka 'nothing, nonexistent; denotes "nothing can apply".
• ＝ : 'equal, aka 'is, asserts; denotes "this thing is that thing".
• ~= : 'iso, aka 'become, relates; denotes "this thing can become that thing".

Scala

• ⊤ : 👍🖤

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Aafke Romeijn - Kalashnikov

Ik ben het zwaard boven je hoofd
Ik ben alles wat je jezelf ooit hebt beloofd
Ik ben het stemmetje dat fluistert "Dit is niet wie je bent"
Ik ben de enige waarheid die je ooit hebt gekend

Ik ben de eerste de laatste adem in en uit tegelijk
Ik sta altijd precies daar waar je eventjes niet kijkt

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On Denotational And Implied Semantics

Okay, let's start.

Can everybody hear me well?

Jon: "Good, but we can't see the screen".

That's correct, because there will not be slides.

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Big O Complexity

Here are the running times of some operations we might perform on the phone book, from best to worst:

• O(1) (best case) Given the page that a business's name is on and the business name, find the phone number.

• O(1) (average case) Given the page that a person's name is on and their name, find the phone number.

• O(log n) Given a person's name, find the phone number by picking a random point about halfway through the part of the book you haven't searched yet, then checking to see whether the person's name is at that point. Then repeat the process about halfway through the part of the book where the person's name lies. (This is a binary search for a person's name).