I am 90% finished writing an article about Miller-Rabin primality testing. A few weeks ago I was looking around and found out that Rabin was still alive, which I hadn't expected... and was wondering if I should try to contact him to ask a few questions regarding his motivation to explore stochastic algorithms. Too late. :-(
> for example it's possible to check out only the relevant sub-tree from the remote, or to commit changes only to the said sub-tree w/o having to affect and therefore contest the history of unrelated parts of the repo.
I'm misunderstanding your statement... are you saying it is possible to do this, or you would like it to be possible?
I am looking for something similar; I would like to archive a bunch of data, much of which is binary rather than text, in a hierarchical form, and work with subtrees without having to clone the whole damn thing.
Is there no end to the burgeoning websites using fixed-width fonts for text? We're not using ASCII terminals anymore... oh, to be able to read text more easily.
> If the scan room door is closed when a quench occurs and helium escapes into the scan room, the depletion of oxygen causes a critical increase in pressure in the room compared with the control area. This produces high pressure in the scan room, which may prevent opening of the door. If this should happen, the glass partition between the scan and control rooms should be broken to release the pressure. The scan room door can then be opened as usual and the patient evacuated. In such a case the patient should be immediately evacuated and evaluated for asphyxia, hypothermia and ruptured eardrums.
OOH! Neat! I looked on my mobile phone enough to get a sense of what this is.
I'm not in the petroleum industry, but about 45 years ago I was mesmerized at an energy fair at my elementary school by this Exxon magazine that showed the refinery flow with a bunch of little dots: https://archive.org/details/p-2330663/P2330670.JPG
How awesome that you were able to find this! I’m only missing a couple! The SRU is my final hurrah that I’m trying to get the play dynamic right. Balancing air demand with sulfur load without overwhelming the screen with bars and widgets.
> How awesome that you were able to find this! I’m only missing a couple!
Missing a couple of features you want to add?
The "able to find this" (the 1981 Exxon magazine) needs context to appreciate re: the dispersion of certain personal belongings over time. I would have picked the magazine up in 1981 or 1982 (possibly 1983) at the school energy fair, and it remained in my physical possession for the next 40-something years.
In elementary school I did not have a significant amount of possessions outside of toys. Then in middle school I got a small desk, and in high school I got a larger desk, and it ended up in a folder of "neat stuff" that I saved.
Then after college my stuff from the desk ended up in a banker's box, which I still have, along with a couple of other boxes of stuff from that era. This year I looked for maybe 20-30 minutes and found it.
I still have all of my copies of Compute's Gazette from the mid-late 1980s.
I will say that it is amazing to be able to go online and find all sorts of old computer/electronics/whatever magazines from the 1950s-1980s on archive.org or bitsavers or worldradiohistory.org and there they are... unless they're not.
Perhaps, but at least I find it very simple for the optimality properties it gives: there is no inherent need to say, "I know that better parameters likely exist, but the algorithm to find them would be hopelessly expensive," as is the case in many forms of minimax optimization.
Ideally either one is just a library call to generate the coefficients. Remez can get into trouble near the endpoints of the interval for asin and require a little bit of manual intervention, however.
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