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I’ve often heard that Washington’s ‘Farewell Address’ — the speech he sent out (in written form) to a bunch of papers at the end of his second term — is important. Apparently he lays down a lot of good ideas for America. But the common style of writing and vocabulary has changed since then. Maybe …
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I just stumbled upon this webpage in which some kid (years ago, presumably in high school) who uses odd slang defined a huge number by putting various operators together and making recursive call after recursive call. He supposes that this is the biggest number anyone’s ever bothered to concisely define. My intuition is that A(g64, …
Every now and then when new products are announced, I like to take a moment and go back to read the Mac Rumors forum thread from when the iPod was first announced. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500 It only gets better the further you go. Arguments one after the next explaining why the iPod will be a collosal failure …
I once shot a man in Reno as he calculated pi. I once shot a man in Reno ’cause he was a samurai. I once shot a man in Reno ’cause he smiled and I’m shy. I once kissed a girl in Reno but I think I might be bi. I once shot a man …
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