Something close to what I think Randall was talking about is LSA
(Latent Semantic Analysis). Indeed, rumour has long held that it is
the basis of Apple's junk filter in Safari. The original source for
the work is here:
http://lsa.colorado.edu/
On 22-Aug-09, at 6:47 PM,
Amateurs. I still keep Apple ][ GS computers running (you want vblint
sync, that is all that is left; you want horizontal line scanning
sync: there is no other machine!). And Hypercard on the ][GS (full
colour!) was in many ways what hypercard should have been on the mac.
It died with
On 17-Dec-08, at 9:12 PM, Richard wrote:
It may be easier to get the exact feature you need than to ask
RunRev to
become a type foundry.
If all you need is a one-pixel font, I'm sure there are plenty around.
But perhaps we might ask why this is useful, and look one step further
to the
I say the same thing, except I call it Metacard.
On 1-Dec-08, at 7:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, just to throw another spanner in the works:-
The very few times people ask me how I make my programs I state that
I use:
Runtime Revolution, a complete programming package.
No
All,
rant
This has bugged me for a long time (back to the days of the Apple //,
at least). All programming languages should *document* their RNGs, so
we have some idea of what they are, and, especially, how bad they are
(and most are very bad). LGN RNGs are not necessarily bad (a
Use GraphicConvertor (it can be used freely) on the snapshots to
create a gif movie, setting the timing for each shot, then covert to
qt format.
On 16-Sep-08, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Snapper is not working like I'd hoped, at least with my primitive
eMac. The problem seems
Thank you all, for this discussion. Really. It was more informative
than the release notes could even hope to be. The exemplars of why
the new array features were so obviously useful helped me a lot in
exactly one way: I have no idea what you who promote these ``new''
features are on
On 11-Sep-08, at 7:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
Now I understand, I didn't consider not to tell rev how many sub
arrays there would be. I have no clue when this would be useful
though, maybe you can explain that?
Sure. One thing
The statement: set the randomseed to x is not consistent. In both the
Rev and MC documentation, x must be an integer. So, for example, set
the randomseed to the seconds works in the sense that a new and
different sequence is subsequently generated by random and any
statements. But set
I run all my stacks *as stacks* in the MetaCard IDE: that is, I do not
create standalones. I sent a series of my stacks to a colleague to
use, pointing him to StackRunner to download to run my stacks. They
ran in a sense, but not completely. In particular, all the subsidiary
materials
Check out some of Cem Kaner's publications on what is, is not, and
should be acceptable practise:
http://www.kaner.com/articles.html
On 15-Apr-08, at 9:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings, venerable collegues,
Would you have a few minutes to give me your brief opinion on a
I agree completely with Richard, except for one thing: the opening
dialogue as one is installing the update still says ``...off of...''.
Sheesh. I may be a curmudgeon, but why continue to rile me for
years? ``...off... will do, is standard English, and will allow me to
relax my hackles
On 7-Aug-07, at 10:56 AM, Heather wrote:
Dear list members,
I came across this today, and thought h I wonder if any of our
esteemed community would get a kick out of entering it:
http://www.macmod.com/index.php?
option=com_contenttask=viewid=308Itemid=234
You are, after all, a creative
Try Mariner Calc: not free, but inexpensive, and it is available as
universal for OS X intel macs http://www.marinersoftware.com/
sitepage.php?page=14
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-Dr. John R. Vokey
Bob,
SuperAnova runs fine under Classic---at least I have never had any
problems, and is not locked in anyway, so it should work following a
simple copy. I suspect the Classic system files on the OS X machine
are not complete. SuperAnova even runs fine under Sheepshaver
(system 8.6),
Dar,
An old thread, and I hope you don't mind me contacting you
directly. I asked a while back about presenting the average of two
images, and you suggested that I a) group them, b) set the ink
property of each, including the group, to blendSrcOver, and c) then
set the opacity 0% and
Well, say what you want, but as a psychologist I am of two minds
about schizophrenia. :-)
On 6-Dec-06, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Schizophrenia has ***nothing*** to do with multiple personality
disorders.
Forget Sybil it was a total joke and a lie. Think more A
beautiful Mind
Jim wrote:
Do four simple steps:
[1] Make a new mainstack
[2] set the card script to
on mouseUp
put the long id of the target the seconds
end mouseUp
[3] Make a new button
[4] Choose Browse mode
---
Why does the card script run when clicking the button that contains
the
script:
on
All,
One of my students got caught by the following in her stack:
At the top of the card script, she declared some variables local
to the scripts of that card, as we always we do. For one of these
variables, she did not initialise it in any way. However, the use of
that variable is
Rev Graphics Gurus,
I have two general questions (which ultimately will evolve into many
more). I need to manipulate the contents of images in Rev in two ways:
1) I need to average, pixel by pixel, two images (of the same size)
before display of that average. So, the question is: how do I
Thanks Ken and Scott: a beautifully clear exposition!
-JRV
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preferences:
A bit late in the debate (but I am at my cottage with at best
primitive dial-up):
On 11-Jul-06, at 8:29 PM, Dan wrote:
I for one wish Rev had never compromised and begun using the equal
sign as
an assignment operator. Many (perhaps most) other languages
disambiguate the
confusing uses
All,
I'd rather stick pins in my eyes. Seriously: what is gained here
that can't be accomplished with either a) copy and paste (my
favourite) or b) object duplication (my next favourite)?
I have programmed in virtually every language extant (and many no
longer), including most machine
Stephen and Trevor,
This is a long-standing complaint of mine about custom properties
in MC/RR (please see the archives), which has usually received at
best irrelevant responses, if any at all (the most common response).
IMHO, for consistency, *all* custom properties should be quoted
PROTECTED] wrote:
John Vokey wrote:
A common problem with DreamCard is that the file paths are not
the same
as MetaCard/RR. So, if your stack loads images or other stacks, it
will fail to locate them if you use dynamic path allocation.
I haven't had any trouble so far...how
Karen,
Very nice. You do realise that you can do this (and so much more)
running shell scripts (from RR) to call R? And cross-platform, too.
Check out: http://www.r-project.org/
On 28-Dec-05, at 7:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I thought I'd just mention that Statistics
I loved my 1959 VW micro-bus (split windscreen, etc.), and my
subsequent 1969 VW Transporter/Camper Bus with the pop-top and extra
canopy bed. Both died from the dreaded thrown 3rd cylinder. The
1969 transporter managed to leave a 5-metre strip of rubber as the
engine ceased---quite
All,
What a fascinating discussion, and a perfect, if ironic, example
of why the question being debated has been resolved (in favour of one
list) in practise.
For the record, I agree with Dan (which happens less often than I
routinely think it should given I own most of his books, but
From the web-site:
``Revolution...
This contains a project exclusively for the SERVICE USB interface and
Runtime Revolution's Revolution. All input and output functions and a
stepping motor control example are implemented.''
And you can download the software from the same page.
On
Well, maybe just ``old''. ``Too old'' is a bit strong (however true
in my case!). But, I agree with Mr. Rossi in many of his
particulars, which is why I have been promoting DreamCard even though
I do not, as a rule, use it. I also, as a rule, do not do anything
in RR (or MC, more
This distinction still irks me. I have never had the need to compile
any of my stacks, hypercard, metacard, or RR. But as I have written
thousands of them, and use them daily in my lab, I would count myself
as a ``pro'' user, not a ``hobbyist''. However, just because a
DreamCard-like
I haven't commented previously on this issue, and, note, I haven't
quoted anyone below. But, I think this whole debate is a tempest in
a teapot (or a rant in search of topic). Just what is the issue here?
Dan Shafer, a hero to many X-Talkers, including me, is concerned that
RR is
Yup, me.
On 9-Nov-05, at 10:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there anyone still using Metacard?
cheers
Xavier
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All,
Just a point of clarification, but open-source and free software
are quite different concepts, as the people of FSF (the authors of
the GPL and GNU) have taken great pains to point out (please see FSF
web-site: http://www.fsf.org/), and, in any case, neither is
necessarily ``free''
I fail to see the point, even in general (i.e., c, or c++); most
neural net models have limit solutions, meaning that one can simply
solve the math; no iterative solution is needed. In that case,
transcript is just fine (well, it would be improved with engine-based
SVD and eigenvector
Beautiful under RR, flickers like mad under MC 2.6.1
On 16-Aug-05, at 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings List:
For those of you who were unable to attend my presentation at
RevConWest, I
showed some experiments with one of Rev's newest features: deep
masks. One
of the nice
I have encountered a strange system incompatibility. Stacks that ran/
run fine under Mac OS X 10.3.x, produce the following peculiar
behaviour under 10.4.2 (whether using the MC or RR IDE). I have a
slider in a group that also contains a default (throbbing) button,
which is to be clicked
This is even stranger: there are no idle loops, etc., but under
10.4.2, it uses upwards of 85% CPU time (and the fans come on for
both my G5s and my powerbooks), but drops to virtually nothing under
10.3.x. This is a serious, but peculiar bug. BTW, Mark's solution
won't work as I have no
It is fascinating to note that in R (GNU's S) the operator evolved
from ``-'' to ``='' despite the ambiguity of the latter (R has both
assignment operators (- and -), but still simple ``='' won out.
Why? Well, as with the letter ``e'' in English, nobody wants to type
2 characters for the
Not true, it is just that they (keys F1 through F7) require that the
fn key be simultaneously held down to be used as function keys. And,
of course, under OS X they can be completely remapped to almost any
function you might want (see keyboard shortcuts under Keyboard and
Mouse in System
Nah,
It really should be:
Thimk!
On 6-Jun-05, at 5:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark Wieder wrote:
Think different is so last year.
This year it's Think really different. :)
Or perhaps, recalling the grammatical furor following that
I have always found binary coded decimal (BCD) the simplest for this
purpose, as it is directly extensible to any length, with only a few
lines of code. Please see any (low-level; i.e., machine-code) book
on arithmetic algorithms. They may not teach BCD anymore, but back
in the day...
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