Latitude-Longitude Distance
I thought I would post some of the bite-sized coding pieces I've done recently. To lead off, here's Ruby function to find the distance between two points given their latitude and longitude. Latitude is...
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Arnold Kling :: Big Gods Here is a question to think about. If religions help to create social capital by allowing people to signal conscientiousness, conformity, and trustworthiness [as Norenzayan...
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Evan Miller :: Winkel Tripel Warping Trouble or "How I Found a Bug in the Journal of Surveying Engineering" All programming blogs need at least one post unofficially titled “Indisputable Proof That I...
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This is the second machine learning competition hosted at Kaggle that I've gotten serious about entering and sunk time into only to be derailed by a paper deadline. I'm pretty frustrated. Since I...
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Jude Robinson :: The single most useful thing in bash Create ~/.inputrc and fill it with this: "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward set show-all-if-ambiguous on set...
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The Economist :: Babbage Blog :: Humble Pi The Raspberry Pi is the brainchild of a couple of computer scientists at Cambridge University. Back in 2006, they lamented the decline in programming skills...
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Google is shutting down the Google Reader service, as you may have heard. I am not happy about this, but I'm also not throwing fits about it. I spent more time in my Reader tab than any other by a huge...
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