> This bug was found with the help of American Fuzzy Lop

MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, largely regarded as one of the top universities in the world.

For context:

This is the third post in a series. The author (Jason Scott) is trying to save ~25,000 manuals, instruction booklets, and engineering notes (largely electronics related, created over the last 80 years). This is a large project, the company which owns the manuals currently is going out of business, and all the manuals will be thrown away very soon (re: tomorrow).

First post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711 Second post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683

It is infeasible (IMHO) to deal with all physical manuals ever in this way, unless you are literally a Manuals Library that is supported by the county or whatever.

I think the only way to go forward is to digitize the shit out of everything.

PEP 8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#function-names

>Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage

Mars One intends to land its first crew on Mars in 2025. http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap

In the realm of the feasible, SpaceX plans to land people on Mars in about 25 years.

For a function to be a linear transform it needs two properties[1]:

  1. F(c1 + c2) = F(c1) + F(c2)
  2. F(k*c1) = k*F(c1)

Converting from Celsius->Fahrenheit (or vice versa) is does not have these properties.

  F(c) = 9/5 * c + 32

  F(c1 + c2) = 9/5 * (c1 + c2) + 32
  F(c1) + F(c2) = (9/5 * c1 + 32) + (9/5 * c2 + 32) = 9/5 * (c1 + c2) + 64

  F(k*c1) = 9/5 * (k*c1) + 32
  k*F(c1) = k * (9/5 * c1 + 32) = 9/5 * (k*c1) + k*32

Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure why being a non-linear transform gets the OP so riled up.

[1]http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LinearTransformation.html

" Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure why being a non-linear transform gets the OP so riled up."

Because it's harder to calculate mentally

One can approximate 2lb to 1kg roughly, 1mi ~ 1.6km, but for Fahrenheit this is harder

One solution is to establish a set point ( 70F = 21.1C, approximate to 20C ) then work in differences, since 1.8deltaF = 1deltaC so, 2dF ~ 1dC (or 10dF ~ 5dC)

Hence, 90F is approximately 30C (exact value, 32.2C)

The FSI[1] has ranked languages according to how easy it is for English speakers to learn. There are 10 languages in Category I (the easiest to learn)[2]:

Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

[1] http://www.state.gov/m/fsi/

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.go...

I would suggest checking out index funds from Vanguard (or Fidelity or Schwab).

Also, you may want to post this to: http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/

They're a very reasonable and helpful community.

Utahn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._state...