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| bio | website | lebigot.pip.verisignlabs.com |
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| location | Beijing, China | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | Jun 17 '12 at 2:41 | |
| stats | profile views | 32 |
Physicist. Open-source programmer. Science & IT consultant. Music composer.
Have been loving science since 1980.
Started programming in 1983. Worked with a dozen languages (imperative [Python, C++, IDL,…], functional [Caml], stack-based [Postscript, HP RPL], constraint-based [Prolog], flow-based [LabView], and assembly [Motorola 68000, HP Saturn]).
Have been working with Unix since 1994.
Started programming in Python in 2006, and still loving it! Have been teaching Python to researchers, engineers and graduate students since 2009.
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Oct 26 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Nov 4 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 4 |
revised |
Starting a cover letter with “By this letter,…”: correct? added 113 characters in body; edited title |
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Nov 4 |
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Starting a cover letter with “By this letter,…”: correct? @BalamuruganK: Good question; I was thinking of a cover letter for a job application. I updated the question. |
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Nov 4 |
accepted | Starting a cover letter with “By this letter,…”: correct? |
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Nov 4 |
asked | Starting a cover letter with “By this letter,…”: correct? |
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Jul 16 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jul 16 |
accepted | Is “many fewer combinations” correct? |
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Jul 15 |
comment |
Is “many fewer combinations” correct? Interesting. The original sentence is something like "… because we now have many fewer combinations". I can see "far fewer combinations than in the past" being a possible wording; I wonder if one could do without an explicit comparison, though. |
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Jul 15 |
awarded | Student |
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Jul 15 |
asked | Is “many fewer combinations” correct? |
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Feb 4 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 4 |
answered | What is the difference between 20$ and $20? |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Sep 28 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
