Re: Re: Re: Re: problem with Pick
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- Subject: [mg78581] Re: [mg78552] Re: [mg78498] Re: Re: problem with Pick
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 03:52:03 -0400 (EDT)
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On 4 Jul 2007, at 18:32, J=E1nos wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > >> >> On 3 Jul 2007, at 19:24, J=E1nos wrote: >> >>> On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 1 Jul 2007, at 16:31, Chris Chiasson wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Jun 29, 4:40 am, J=3DE1nos <janos.l... at yale.edu> wrote: >>>>>> Like barbers who are shaving themselves... :) >>>>>> >>>>>> J=3DE1nos >>>>>> P.S. I am hearing someone turning slowly in his grave.... >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:26 AM, DrMajorBob wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> That's entirely contrary to the documentation, which says that >>>>>>> Pick >>>>>>> "picks >>>>>>> out those ELEMENTS of list for which the corresponding >>>>>>> ELEMENT of >>>>>>> sel is >>>>>>> True." >>>>>> >>>>>>> How is a list its own ELEMENT, if English words mean anything? >>>>>> >>>>>>> Bobby >>>>> >>>>> LOL >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Actually, there is nothing at all unusual about barbers shaving >>>> themselves. I am sure lots of barbers do it. Russell's illustration >>>> (of a variant of his paradox) was about a barber who "shaved >>>> everyone >>>> in town who did not shave himself". It would take more than all the >>>> resourcefulness of Figoro, the barber of Seville, to relate this to >>> >>> Figaro >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figaro >>> >>> J=E1nos >>> >>> >> >> Congratulations! My imperfect keyboard control gave your chance >> >> La vendetta, oh la vendetta >> e un piacer serbato ai saggi, >> l'obliar l'onte, gli oltraggi >> e bassezza, e ognor vilta. >> >> ... >> Se tutto il codice dovessi volgere, >> se tutto l'indice dovessi leggere, >> con un equivoco, con un sinonimo, >> qualche garbuglio si trovera. >> >> (Le Nozze Di Fiagaro, Atto 1, Bartolo's Vendetta Aria). >> >> Andrzej Kozlowski > > Andrzej, you are a wonderful person, although both of us know that it > is not just your keyboard control that is imperfect :) > > For example: "...Figoro, the barber of Seville,...". > > Well, the barber of Sevilha - as the Spanish would say - was > Bartolo, according to Beaumarchais :) > > > J=E1nos > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > "A cyber virgin has never had intercourse outside of virtual reality, > whereas a virtual virgin has never had intercourse with a real person > even in virtual reality" > > -Ray Kurzweil - "The age of spiritual machines" > > A newbie is a newbie is a newbie (even if he has Wikipedia to help him). Andrzej Kozlowski ------------------------------------------ Your proposition may be good But let's have one thing understood -- Whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it. Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff President of Huxley College
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- Re: Re: Re: problem with Pick
- From: János <janos.lobb@yale.edu>
- Re: Re: Re: problem with Pick