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    Historical Jesus

    1. The supernatural Jesus existed because there are witnesses in the gospels, and the gospels are verbatim journalistic reporting 2. A lot of people believe the gospels are true, therefore they are true. There is an historical Trump. 2000 years from now in another couture and langue with scant...
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    The Programming Thread

    Don;t have a clue what you are 'hinting' at. I scanned through the Mersenne algorithm and there is plenty of code on the net. No mystery or puzzle. Feel free to post complete working debugged code that others can run.
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    Deism, an intellectually serious position in previous centuries, now must reject scientific explanations

    Deism was popular in 19th century America. Jefferson was a Deist. He believed in a creator and thought he would be reunited with family in an afterlife. He put together a NT version minus the supernatural. I'd call it a 'thinking man's religion'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
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    The Programming Thread

    ...//URAND LG 32 bit int sf = 100,os = 0; unsigned m = 0x7fffffff; unsigned k1 = 907633385,k2 = 1686629725; unsigned rand_num = 1; for(i=0;i<n;i++){ rand_num = rand_num*k2 + k1; x = (rand_num%m)%sf + os; // random ints 0-100 } return 0; }
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    The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus vs. ?

    Christian arguments on the forum have been: 1. The gospels are eyewitness accounts with multiple sightings. 2. A lot of peole for 2000 years beleve it is true, therefore it must be true.
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    The Programming Thread

    The Mersenne Twister 32 bit is the default C++ library random number generator. there is also a 64 bit Mersenne Twister and a linear congruential generator. I downloaded the Mersenne Twister code. I have been using 10^10 iterations for testing and comparing URAND to C++ Mersenne Twister and C...
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    Russian scientists created cure for cancer (all types/kinds of it)

    A derail into history and politics for sure. It is hard to resist Barbos's proclamations. Yes Trump is a wanna be Mussolini, but he is not unique in our politics, he's just on the extreme end. Our progressive saint FDR tried to change the size of the Supermen Court so he could pack it with...
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    The Programming Thread

    URAND appears to be linear congruence. The link has a list of constants that are used. For the code I posed k1 = 907633385,k2 = 1686629725. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
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    6/27/24 presidential debate

    Biden has made his share of incorrect and made up facts. As has been widely commented on, Biden apears to have diminished capacity. I can see wyt Netanyahu is getting his way with the USA, Biden is incapable of confronting an aggressive opponent. Trump's lies are one thing, Biden's inability...
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    Julian Assange is finally free

    Holy government? I doubt few anywhere in the west would say that, maybe in China. The question today given the population size, economics, and many divisions what does anyone rose as a different form of government? Can a government function with complete transparency and public access to all...
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    Julian Assange is finally free

    If you go all the way back he selectively released hacked governed communications to areas where it would cause trouble which it did. He is responsible for inciting violence. He was not just releasing information in the nae of transparency, he was actively working against us. Note as far as I...
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    Russian scientists created cure for cancer (all types/kinds of it)

    The difference between the USA and the west in general is that we acknowledge our moral failings and try to correct it. Unlike China and Russia the west believes in rule of law, freedom of the press, and civil liberties. No one says we are perfect, but it is what we strive for. Here in the USA...
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    Is a Hidden God the Same as No God?

    A hidden god is a mystery and everybody lies a good mystery. A physical god is something else. Disobey and you get zapped with lightning. No interpretation of what god wants no ifs ands or buts and no deferred punishment until you die.
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    Local Weather

    I feel for those in the heat, today it is cool and I am wearing a hoody around the apartment instead of a T shirt. Added ab extra blanket last night. The local climate is changing, no question about that. Most people in the region did not have air committing until recent years. Seattle s ok...
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    The Programming Thread

    ...are too big for the stack so they are allocated on the heap. #include <chrono> #include <random> void normal(int n,double u,double std,double *y){ cout<<"normal"<<endl; int i; unsigned seed = chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count(); default_random_engine...
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    The Programming Thread

    A clean PDF of the paper with derivationss and original FORTRAN code. It was designed to be portable, it finds the actual int size. http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/334/CS-TR-73-334.pdf
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    Local Weather

    The last few months were all over the place in terms of historical patters. Right now we are in the usual high 40s to 50s at night and 60s to upper 70s in the day sometimes in the 80s, typical for his time.
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    The Programming Thread

    I coded it from FORTRAN from the 70s paper. URAND A Universal Random Number Generator, its on the net. For a given m K1 and K2 are constants that can be precalculated, I showed it as it is in the paper for clarity. Each iteration then is a multiplication and an addition. In the days of...
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    The Processor Thread

    Don't forget the Z80, 8051 and 6502. They were important. The Commodore computer was 6502. The DEC VAX was an 9mrtant computer. PDP. The first company I word at used a VAX for software dependent, it had an open bus architecture and 3rd party plug in boards. You might call it the PC of the...
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    The Programming Thread

    C++ Normal, Exponential Distributions #include <random> #include <chrono> void save(int n,string fname, double *x1,double *x2){ int i; FILE *p = fopen(fname.c_str(),"w"); for(i=0;i<n;i++)fprintf(p,"%.10f\t %.10f\t \n",x1[i],x2[i]); fclose(p); }//save() int...
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