wickedoasis.org
Derrick Higgins
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I've come to the realization that I am no longer capable of updating a web page more than once a year, so I'm restricting the personal information here to those things which are relatively static:. Brilliant, beautiful wife. And 2 brilliant, beautiful kids. I'm a computational linguist, and the director of a research group at ETS. Has a bit more information. I play chess, sometimes pretty well, sometimes frustratingly poorly, and often both during the course of a single game.
composingprograms.com
1.1 Getting Started
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Chapter 1 Hide contents. 111 Programming in Python. 112 Installing Python 3. 12 Elements of Programming. 123 Importing Library Functions. 124 Names and the Environment. 125 Evaluating Nested Expressions. 126 The Non-Pure Print Function. 13 Defining New Functions. 132 Calling User-Defined Functions. 133 Example: Calling a User-Defined Function. 136 Functions as Abstractions. 142 Default Argument Values. 153 Defining Functions II: Local Assignment. 161 Functions as Arguments. 165 Example: Newton's Method.
la-riposte.blogspot.com
La Riposte: October 2010
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Literature - Politics - Psychology - Travel - Technology - Cuisine - History - Arts. Thursday, October 28, 2010. War Crimes: Do US Drone Strikes Violate Article 25 of the Hague Convention? Villagers comb through the rubble left after a. Strike in Pakistan killed 18 people,. And children - but no. Al Qaeda or Taliban fighters. Article 25 of the Hague Convention on the Law of Land Warfare. Can be considered discriminate and proportional, but one has to begin somewhere. Ahmed Rashid describes exactly what U...
cantheseboneslive.blogspot.com
Can These Bones Live: June 2013
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Can These Bones Live. Ruminations on society, literature, and life. Sunday, June 30, 2013. In the Land of Invented Languages, by Arika Okrent. In college I knew a young woman who had studied. The languages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional world. And taught herself to write elvish runes. At about the same time, I used to listen to the jazz-rock fusion band,. Led by eccentric French musician Christian Vander. The only feature-length film shot entirely in Esperanto, starring a youthful William Shatner. Driven ...
