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We Are the Introverts

We Are the Introverts

This is actually Terrifying Cuil is the cutting edge. The advances in the field are occurring at an unheard of pace. The recovery of the world economy may very well depend on science finding a productive way of harnessing the Cuil. The idea was to lampoon the terrible search engine capabilities of the Cuil search engine, while providing a functionally stimulating idea about the interrelationship between tangential things. The result was the following exchange: HalCion: Reddit's thumbnails have a Cuil level of effectiveness. RedDyeNumber4 Can we make that a unit of measurement? One Cuil = One level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation. Example: You ask me for a Hamburger. 1 Cuil: if you asked me for a hamburger, and I gave you a raccoon. 2 Cuils: If you asked me for a hamburger, but it turns out I don't really exist. 3 Cuils: You awake as a hamburger. 4 Cuils: Why are we speaking German? 5 Cuils: You ask for a hamburger, I give you a hamburger. 6 Cuils: You ask me for a hamburger.

Rosenhan experiment Rosenhan's study was done in two parts. The first part involved the use of healthy associates or "pseudopatients" (three women and five men, including Rosenhan himself) who briefly feigned auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 different psychiatric hospitals in five different states in various locations in the United States. All were admitted and diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had no longer experienced any additional hallucinations. All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and agree to take antipsychotic drugs as a condition of their release. The average time that the patients spent in the hospital was 19 days. The study concluded "it is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals" and also illustrated the dangers of dehumanization and labeling in psychiatric institutions. The pseudopatient experiment[edit] Notes

How to use a semicolon Public Proxy Servers - Free Proxy Server List HowStuffWorks "The Basics of C Programming" The previous discussion becomes a little clearer if you understand how memory addresses work in a computer's hardware. If you have not read it already, now would be a good time to read How Bits and Bytes Work to fully understand bits, bytes and words. All computers have memory, also known as RAM (random access memory). For example, your computer might have 16 or 32 or 64 megabytes of RAM installed right now. RAM holds the programs that your computer is currently running along with the data they are currently manipulating (their variables and data structures). float f; This statement says, "Declare a location named f that can hold one floating point value." While you think of the variable f, the computer thinks of a specific address in memory (for example, 248,440). f = 3.14; The compiler might translate that into, "Load the value 3.14 into memory location 248,440." There are, by the way, several interesting side effects to the way your computer treats memory. s:t 1:5 2:2 3:3 4:4 5:5 u = 5

Einstein for Everyone Einstein for Everyone Nullarbor Press 2007revisions 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Copyright 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 John D. Norton Published by Nullarbor Press, 500 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 with offices in Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222 All Rights Reserved John D. An advanced sequel is planned in this series:Einstein for Almost Everyone 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 ePrinted in the United States of America no trees were harmed web*bookTM This book is a continuing work in progress. January 1, 2015. Preface For over a decade I have taught an introductory, undergraduate class, "Einstein for Everyone," at the University of Pittsburgh to anyone interested enough to walk through door. With each new offering of the course, I had the chance to find out what content worked and which of my ever so clever pedagogical inventions were failures. At the same time, my lecture notes have evolved. This text owes a lot to many. i i i

the simple image sharer "Perl for Newbies" - Part 1 - The Perl Beginners' Site Strings and data structures that are unlimited in size, nested to any depth. Powerful syntax and built-in functions. Extended, built-in support for regular expressions. Support for namespaces, classes, and objects. Functional Programming capabilities such as closures and continuations. CPAN - a comprehensive on-line archive of easily installable and re-usable modules. Perl was introduced in 1987 (4 years before Linux itself), when the author, Larry Wall, released version 1.000 of it. Since then, perl has seen several versions, each adding additional functionality. perl version 5, which was released in 1994, was a complete re-write of the perl interpreter, and introduced such things as hard references, modules, objects and lexical scoping. Perl became especially popular as a language for writing server-side scripts for web-servers. Links: Perl is interpreted, so no compilation is needed. At the command line (and press Enter). The neophyte "Hello World!" and a ** b a . b a % b Example:

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