on the off chance you're actually after an answer to the question in your.sig, the reason is that irregular forms such as -en simply die out when a generation of speakers rarely hears and uses the past-tense of a particular word, and so when it finally comes time for an individual to use the past-tense and they've never heard it, they just apply the regular rule of adding -ed. so a corollary would be that the past-tense of "prove" is being used less frequently than it was in previous times.
words and rules by steven pinker is an entire book about irregular verbs, and i believe has a sentence or two about proven/proved. he definitely has many paragraphs, possibly a chapter, on the -en / -ed deal. he also talks a bit about why irregular forms persist over time. he also has some serious pedantic axes to grind.
wait, "debugging" at this level of learning should absolutely be on the order of Print Statements sprinkled throughout the code, which alert() in javascript will satisfy just fine.
i recommend javascript as the best choice here as well.
here's what i see as JS's big wins for young, potential coders:
* it runs anywhere.
this means the code you write at home is going to run identically at school.
now, other languages also do this, but:
* there's no intermediate steps between editing the source and seeing it run.
no compiler, no server, no runtime library or environment other than a browser.
* you can share your work in a web page!
pretty cool.
pax causation vs. correlation pedants for a sec, the most interesting thing i've heard re turmeric is that cultures which eat a lot of it [india] have markedly low rates of alzheimers.
no kidding. the Suit's explanation didn't exactly wow me either: "it works by taking uh anything that you would normally print out or read on paper, like a newspaper or magazine, and transfers them from either computer or wirelessly, you know, to the device, so that you can, read them."
i only learned about cut within the last year, it's awesome.
cut - extract particular fields from a delimited line sort - sort the lines of a file. is smart enough to recognize if it's sorting word or numbers. uniq - collapse and count consecutive identical lines in a file.
i use these three fairly often to do one-off summaries of log files. i'm sure there's a better way to do it with awk or something, but cut is so simple.
in the line above, grep does the usual grep thing, the cut line extracts the sixth field from each line, using a quote as the delimiter, the first sort sorts the results so that the two "server7" entries are consecutive (this is a requirement for uniq), the uniq collapses identical consecutive lines and prepends the count, and the second sort sorts again by the line counts.
obviously this is not robust enough for real reports, but when i've got some files which aren't hooked up to a report generation system, and/or want to ferret out some info which hasn't previously been ferreted, these commands are great.
i abstained from DST one year, and got to be dickish about it, eg when she said "so let's meet at 7", i could put on my best geek-snob voice and say "oh, do you mean 6 ? because i don't participate in DST".
needless to say, i got so much action that year that it began to impinge on my nethack time, so i had to develop a whole new radical playing style which turned out to finally be the key to ascending as a pacifist caveman.
but seriously, i did abstain one year, and had to give it up because the social overhead was just too high.
i have a page which does some numerical simulation in javascript, essentially an O(N^2) finding-nearest-neighbors-in-two-dimensions thing, and here are some trials w/ 2000 points, on an x86 windows machine:
it's strange, i was feeling a bit blue just a couple days ago, and was considering rereading IJ to cheer me up: it's a book which always puts things in perspective and makes me laugh, and i especially appreciate that it makes *me* feel smart and witty, as if DFW were loaning me a portion of his verve and charm for a while.
IJ is in my opinion the best novel in the english language, and DFW's suicide at such a young age is a huge loss to literature.
my thoughts go out to his family, friends, students, and fans.
yes, i was limiting the scope of agents to those admitted by "accepted science".
so with scoping in mind, my complaint is that irreducible complexity arguments tend to translate into "accepted scientific agents do not currently explain such-and-such, therefore we must look outside accepted scientific agents".
.. which strictly speaking, yes, proper scientific method can't shut the door out-of-hand on agents such as gods. for example, consider a world in which gods actually did create such-and-such. if the scientists of that world always reject gods as possible agents, then they will clearly never arrive at the correct explanation of such-and-such.
however, appeals to agents outside the scope of accepted science have historically always fallen, so it seems prudent not to resort to them now, and instead to keep hammering on the stuff within accepted science. qv the god of the gaps, etc.
> the universe is actually a rather robust structure.
.. at least w/r/t star formation.
slightly OT, the thing i really dislike about Intelligent Design arguments is that they're essentially a way of just giving up trying to explain things. they equate to "it's irreducibly complex, therefore we can learn no more", or "the chances approach zero, therefore we can learn no more". but science constantly discovers new things, throws old things out, etc. an essence of science is *not* deciding you've learned as much as you can or that you've arrived at the ultimate explanation.
> I'm curious what kind of impact on temperature an array like that would have.
seems like a bonus. i've heard that black-roofed buildings and asphalt etc have a measurable effect on ambient temperature because they absorb the incoming light and convert it to heat instead of reflecting it, but i'm not sure i believe it.
i find the recent developments in peltier-like technology pretty interesting. for example this recent article on Ohio State project, and possibly stirling engines to reclaim waste heat. for example, with installations like a coal or nuclear plant, where you have a lot of waste heat, run it through a bunch of those guys, or at least some stirling engines before dumping it!
i love math.. so let's say the power-to-area ratio is 500 MW to 12 square miles, and the usage is 500 GW. that's 0.1% of the nation's use per 12 square miles. so to meet say 100% of the nation's consumption, that would be.. 12,000 square miles, or an area about 110x110 miles.
not sure i would say "quite" green and verdant. "occasionally", sure. joke i learned from some icelanders: "What should you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest?... Stand up."
i was surprised to read that The Geysers, just north of San Francisco, claims to be "the largest complex of geothermal power plants in the world". i guess "largest" is open to interpretation. But here's another startling claim: "The Geysers satisfies nearly 60 percent of the average electricity demand in the North Coast region from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border".
I will say, the designers on my team dislike git significantly. Their lives were almost entirely covered with "svn co/ci" and the idea of having to keep a remote tracking branch, merge a work branch with it, push the changes to the master repo...this just irritates them.
i'm currently using SVN w/ Tortoise + Jira + Fisheye, with a team of maybe fifteen pretty active users and fifteen additional casual users. SVN & Jira make a good combo. Of the three of them, Fisheye is definitely the weak link for me. It's comparatively slow as a dog, and the interface leaves much to be desired. I think much of Fisheye might benefit from being moved from a web app to a client app like Tortoise. I've used Bugzilla and Mantis in the past, and Jira is definitely slicker.
> Who cares about a unified username/password "experience".
fair enough, but i think for many users it would be cool to have a unified identities across several sites. ie, so my MySpace social network could be parsed by YouTube or my favorite online game or what have you. Not saying it's for everyone, but there's certainly some value there for some.
word. one can only hope that someday soon we'll banish such backwards and poisonous works as Huck Finn, For Whom The Bell Tolls or The Artificial Nigger.
but in seriousness, i think you're conflating "dialect" prose with racism/classism. while they certainly sometimes go hand-in-hand, they're actually independent.
the thing to keep your eye on is the author's overall portrayal of characters.
re [sic], i agree with you: when used where the difference in grammar usage is obvious, it's assy.
i would vote for good, treating "getting people to learn better grammar" as a noun-phrase. as if it were "Vitamin C" or "The Space Program" or something.
Slashdot Mirror
Proof are the "found" ballots in the Minnesota race, which mysteriously (and statistically impossibly) favor a particular candidate.
you probably mean "which significantly differ from the rest of the ballots".
on the off chance you're actually after an answer to the question in your .sig, the reason is that irregular forms such as -en simply die out when a generation of speakers rarely hears and uses the past-tense of a particular word, and so when it finally comes time for an individual to use the past-tense and they've never heard it, they just apply the regular rule of adding -ed. so a corollary would be that the past-tense of "prove" is being used less frequently than it was in previous times.
words and rules by steven pinker is an entire book about irregular verbs, and i believe has a sentence or two about proven/proved. he definitely has many paragraphs, possibly a chapter, on the -en / -ed deal. he also talks a bit about why irregular forms persist over time. he also has some serious pedantic axes to grind.
wait, "debugging" at this level of learning should absolutely be on the order of Print Statements sprinkled throughout the code, which alert() in javascript will satisfy just fine.
i recommend javascript as the best choice here as well.
here's what i see as JS's big wins for young, potential coders:
* it runs anywhere.
this means the code you write at home is going to run identically at school.
now, other languages also do this, but:
* there's no intermediate steps between editing the source and seeing it run.
no compiler, no server, no runtime library or environment other than a browser.
* you can share your work in a web page!
pretty cool.
* it's a very forgiving language.
+turmeric +memory.
pax causation vs. correlation pedants for a sec,
the most interesting thing i've heard re turmeric is that cultures which eat a lot of it [india] have markedly low rates of alzheimers.
no kidding. the Suit's explanation didn't exactly wow me either: "it works by taking uh anything that you would normally print out or read on paper, like a newspaper or magazine, and transfers them from either computer or wirelessly, you know, to the device, so that you can, read them."
i only learned about cut within the last year, it's awesome.
cut - extract particular fields from a delimited line
sort - sort the lines of a file. is smart enough to recognize if it's sorting word or numbers.
uniq - collapse and count consecutive identical lines in a file.
i use these three fairly often to do one-off summaries of log files.
i'm sure there's a better way to do it with awk or something, but cut is so simple.
say your log lines look something like this
20081005 error username = "doofus" condition = "very bad" server = "server7"
20081105 error username = "goofus" condition = "very bad" server = "server6"
20081105 error username = "Major Hubris" condition = "very bad" server = "server7"
20081105 error username = "doofus" condition = "very bad" server = "server3"
and you would like to know say how many "very bad" errors occured on each server:
> grep "very bad" log.txt | cut -d \" -f 6 | sort | uniq -c | sort
1 server3
1 server6
2 server7
in the line above,
grep does the usual grep thing,
the cut line extracts the sixth field from each line, using a quote as the delimiter,
the first sort sorts the results so that the two "server7" entries are consecutive (this is a requirement for uniq),
the uniq collapses identical consecutive lines and prepends the count,
and the second sort sorts again by the line counts.
obviously this is not robust enough for real reports,
but when i've got some files which aren't hooked up to a report generation system,
and/or want to ferret out some info which hasn't previously been ferreted,
these commands are great.
i abstained from DST one year,
and got to be dickish about it,
eg when she said "so let's meet at 7",
i could put on my best geek-snob voice and say "oh, do you mean 6 ? because i don't participate in DST".
needless to say, i got so much action that year that it began to impinge on my nethack time, so i had to develop a whole new radical playing style which turned out to finally be the key to ascending as a pacifist caveman.
but seriously, i did abstain one year, and had to give it up because the social overhead was just too high.
.. boy can that Goat See!
i have a page which does some numerical simulation in javascript,
essentially an O(N^2) finding-nearest-neighbors-in-two-dimensions thing,
and here are some trials w/ 2000 points, on an x86 windows machine:
Safari 3.1.2 - ~50 seconds, maybe more
Safari 3.1.2 + Webkit - ~10 seconds
Firefox 3.0.2 - ~22 seconds
Chrome 0.2.149.30 - ~19 seconds
it's strange,
i was feeling a bit blue just a couple days ago, and was considering rereading IJ to cheer me up: it's a book which always puts things in perspective and makes me laugh, and i especially appreciate that it makes *me* feel smart and witty, as if DFW were loaning me a portion of his verve and charm for a while.
IJ is in my opinion the best novel in the english language,
and DFW's suicide at such a young age is a huge loss to literature.
my thoughts go out to his family, friends, students, and fans.
i too have used sneakemail regularly for years; it's great.
i think it needs to be treated the same way we treat the word "modern" when applied to art or literature.
good clarification.
yes, i was limiting the scope of agents to those admitted by "accepted science".
so with scoping in mind, my complaint is that irreducible complexity arguments tend to translate into "accepted scientific agents do not currently explain such-and-such, therefore we must look outside accepted scientific agents".
however, appeals to agents outside the scope of accepted science have historically always fallen, so it seems prudent not to resort to them now, and instead to keep hammering on the stuff within accepted science. qv the god of the gaps, etc.
> the universe is actually a rather robust structure.
.. at least w/r/t star formation.
slightly OT, the thing i really dislike about Intelligent Design arguments is that they're essentially a way of just giving up trying to explain things. they equate to "it's irreducibly complex, therefore we can learn no more", or "the chances approach zero, therefore we can learn no more". but science constantly discovers new things, throws old things out, etc. an essence of science is *not* deciding you've learned as much as you can or that you've arrived at the ultimate explanation.
> I'm curious what kind of impact on temperature an array like that would have.
seems like a bonus.
i've heard that black-roofed buildings and asphalt etc have a measurable effect on ambient temperature because they absorb the incoming light and convert it to heat instead of reflecting it, but i'm not sure i believe it.
i find the recent developments in peltier-like technology pretty interesting. for example this recent article on Ohio State project, and possibly stirling engines to reclaim waste heat. for example, with installations like a coal or nuclear plant, where you have a lot of waste heat, run it through a bunch of those guys, or at least some stirling engines before dumping it!
i love math..
so let's say the power-to-area ratio is 500 MW to 12 square miles, and the usage is 500 GW. that's 0.1% of the nation's use per 12 square miles.
so to meet say 100% of the nation's consumption, that would be.. 12,000 square miles, or an area about 110x110 miles.
i think you slashdotted it.
not sure i would say "quite" green and verdant. "occasionally", sure. joke i learned from some icelanders: "What should you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest? ... Stand up."
i was surprised to read that The Geysers, just north of San Francisco, claims to be "the largest complex of geothermal power plants in the world". i guess "largest" is open to interpretation. But here's another startling claim: "The Geysers satisfies nearly 60 percent of the average electricity demand in the North Coast region from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border".
who knew ?
I will say, the designers on my team dislike git significantly. Their lives were almost entirely covered with "svn co/ci" and the idea of having to keep a remote tracking branch, merge a work branch with it, push the changes to the master repo...this just irritates them.
.. and their irritation seems unjustified ?
i'm currently using SVN w/ Tortoise + Jira + Fisheye, with a team of maybe fifteen pretty active users and fifteen additional casual users. SVN & Jira make a good combo. Of the three of them, Fisheye is definitely the weak link for me. It's comparatively slow as a dog, and the interface leaves much to be desired. I think much of Fisheye might benefit from being moved from a web app to a client app like Tortoise. I've used Bugzilla and Mantis in the past, and Jira is definitely slicker.
"The researchers neither sought legal review of the project nor ran it past their Institutional Review Board."
> Who cares about a unified username/password "experience".
fair enough, but i think for many users it would be cool to have a unified identities across several sites. ie, so my MySpace social network could be parsed by YouTube or my favorite online game or what have you. Not saying it's for everyone, but there's certainly some value there for some.
word.
one can only hope that someday soon we'll banish such backwards and poisonous works as Huck Finn, For Whom The Bell Tolls or The Artificial Nigger.
but in seriousness, i think you're conflating "dialect" prose with racism/classism.
while they certainly sometimes go hand-in-hand, they're actually independent.
the thing to keep your eye on is the author's overall portrayal of characters.
re [sic], i agree with you: when used where the difference in grammar usage is obvious, it's assy.
i would vote for good,
treating "getting people to learn better grammar" as a noun-phrase. as if it were "Vitamin C" or "The Space Program" or something.