AI is such an abused word that no one really knows what it is supposed to mean. Probably "automation" or "soft computing" are more accurate, but lack the cool factor.
You can have a daemon (tup monitor), but it is not required; in the second case tup will compare last-mod times of files with those from the last run (stored in the .tup dir).
To be fair, free R+CRAN is also capable of all that stuff, not to mention that it can be easily compiled with ICC using MKL (provided that one has a license for them, but most academias have).
Thumbs up for not using rand, but the assuming that MT is a golden bullet is not exactly scientific; one should just test few RNGs, it may come in that the code exploits some ultra-hidden hole in MT or that some much faster RNG works equally well. Also reproducibility of a stochastic code means that the code results lead to the same conclusions regardless of the seed, not that you get bit to bit identical output for the same seed. In case one assumes (only) the latter, it may end up in seed cherry picking, not-optimizing code because it would "break reproducibility" or not investigating the natural deviation of the results.
On the other hand, the more system is loaded without user input the greater chance that it can be exploited; also filesystem-level encryption leaks some meta information.
That is a very good feature because forcing user to perform mentally demanding operation to dismiss the alarm decreases the risk of falling back to sleep (;
Fan is (y-50)/(x-50)+time/5, sin is to add texture. Multiplying x by cos and y by sine of the same frequency would simply rotate the fan centre around top right corner, slightly off periods (19 and 21) degenerate that circle into a more interesting Lissajous curve.
Reasonable UI systems and not-overdesigned programs respect your UI font size setting and scale the rest accordingly, while equal resolutions allow hinting to do its job and produce a sharp output in an intelligent way. The brute-force approach of densifying monitors is a dirty hack and luckily doesn't scale at all.
Because with R you can and usually do multiple things with multiple data sources within one session, which effectively dissolves the start-up and load time. Even if reading one file and calculating mean or something with a single script is the only thing you do, you can use Rscript which runs R without loading heavy stuff like the methods package.
Blackboard is for the lecturer; it is easier to write formulas or draw diagrams interactively than with any digital tool. Plus the size; you can dump a lot of information without having to scroll anywhere.
Does yours detect which part of the full-text is an author name, which is journal and which is publication date (mind the reference section present in practically every paper)? Does it index the notes you made on them?
The biggest problem with just writing some actual JS is a poor compatibility; when you try to generalise some one-liner working in a cutting edge browser you usually end up with a small library, plus the process is pretty painful. Thus those libraries' value mainly lies in research and testing required to make them work rather than in their core function.
Agree, COM in Mercator projection is even more wrong than the Economist method. If one wants to have it on sphere the only correct way to do this is by using the great circle distance. Obviously it still leaves a question what does this center of economic activity actually shows (;
Actually it is a pretty dirty hack -- it seems ok because the flat design is currently popular. But quite likely gradients and shadows will come back in a few years and then few single-color layers won't be enough.
Than, what's the point of using a secure communication app if you must also install a spying rootkit to make it work? For me it makes the whole TS not viable.
For instance a waste of time of font designers; you can make rational decision about including certain alphabets (by analysing the target group demands), but selecting a reasonable subset of bazyllion random, singular pictures to draw and test is a major headache. Obviously this way the users get inconsistent experience.