> a) How's the best way to make it so I can have a user type in a list of
> symptoms and then have the computer tell the user the possible diseases that
> share those symptoms?
Good question. The first decent idea that came to mind was searching
through a cartesian join of all diseases & symptom
On Jun 13, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 6/12/2011 1:55 PM Andre' Walker-Loud said...
>> Hi Alan,
>>
* Or you just get used to the fact that some numbers are not exact in
floating point.
>>>
>>> This got me thinking. How many decimal places do you need to
>>> accurat
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Fred G wrote:
> Thanks guys for all the feedback.
> re Jim's comments: I completely agree that the difference b/t "slight" fever
> and "returning" fever, etc will pose some problems. My hunch is that
> initially I'll just do something like make "fever" be the only
"Fred G" wrote
re Steve's comments: hmm, sounds like I really should take an AI
class.
This problem is just really exciting and driving me, and I'm glad
you
pointed out that this will probably take a lot more time than I had
predicted.
I assume you know that there are several commerial pac
Kĩnũthia Mũchane wrote:
On 06/12/2011 08:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Unfortunately, many common fractions cannot be written exactly in
binary. You're probably familiar with the fact that fractions like 1/3
cannot be written exactly in decimal:
1/3 = 0.... goes on forever
Does it?
2011/6/10 Kaustubh Pratap chand :
> Can you recommend a book for a person like me which comes with a C
> background and the book covers all essential algoithmic methods and
> examples?
You, might find "Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented
Design Patterns in Python"
by Bruno R. Preis
Thanks guys for all the feedback.
re Jim's comments: I completely agree that the difference b/t "slight" fever
and "returning" fever, etc will pose some problems. My hunch is that
initially I'll just do something like make "fever" be the only one for now
w/ the obvious caveat that a few more dise
On 06/13/2011 12:17 AM, R. Berman wrote:
Having followed this absurd thread from its beginning hopefully to this, the
end of it. Everyone replying to your diatribe has been incredibly polite to
you. One of the moderators tried to explain the obvious to you. This is a
Python group. Python is to
"amt" <0101...@gmail.com> wrote in message
I am honestly confused. I have read the exercise and found
three lines that could use the floating point(2,3 and line 5).
I can understand why at line 5 I use floating point. 6,75 is more
precise than saying 7.
Exactly, no problem with line 5 (exc
On 06/12/2011 08:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Ryan Strunk wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm designing a timeline. When the user presses the right arrow, 0.1 is
added to the current position. The user can add events to the
timeline, and
can later scroll back across those events to see what they are. But
Hi,
On 13 June 2011 20:28, amt <0101...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can you explain your reasoning? Why do you think line 3 needs
>> to be changed? Why line 5?
>
>
> Well the exercise says: "Rewrite ex3.py to use floating point numbers so
> it’s more accurate (hint: 20.0 is floating point)."
>
> I am
On 6/12/2011 1:55 PM Andre' Walker-Loud said...
Hi Alan,
* Or you just get used to the fact that some numbers are not exact in
floating point.
This got me thinking. How many decimal places do you need to
accurately, say, aim a laser somewhere in a 180 degree arc accurately
enough to hit a dim
>
>
> Can you explain your reasoning? Why do you think line 3 needs
> to be changed? Why line 5?
Well the exercise says: "Rewrite ex3.py to use floating point numbers so
it’s more accurate (hint: 20.0 is floating point)."
I am honestly confused. I have read the exercise and found three lines tha
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Fred G wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
> decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
> pretty stuck on a few things.
>
> I've built a file that contains a list of many d
Hello, my version is Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39). The
book only talks about Python 2.x.
So, how do I solve the exercise?
3. print "Roosters", 100 - 25 * 3 % 4.00
5. print 3 + 2 + 1 - 5 + 4 % 2 - 1 / 4.00 + 6
Is this correct? I'm a bit confused at line 5 because python return
"amt" <0101...@gmail.com> wrote
1 print "I will now count my chickens:"
2 print "Hens", 25 + 30 /6
3 print "Roosters", 100 - 25 * 3 % 4 #Output is 97
4 print "Now I will count the eggs:"
5 print 3 + 2 + 1 - 5 + 4 % 2 - 1 / 4 + 6 #Output needs to be 6,83 but
Python give me 7
6 print "Is it true th
2011/6/13 amt <0101...@gmail.com>
> I came up with:
> print "Roosters", 100 - float(25) * 3 % 4
>
> This is for line 3 so it is more precised. Is it correct what I did?
I don't think so. All the operations in this line are for integers. % means
the remainder of the division, so according to the
Hello, I am a python beginner currently learning from "Learn python the hard
way". I'm stuck at exercise 3 and I would like if it's possible to get some
help so I can move on.
Here is the source code:
1 print "I will now count my chickens:"
2 print "Hens", 25 + 30 /6
3 print "Roosters", 100 - 25 *
Fred G wrote:
Hello--
I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
pretty stuck on a few things.
Essentially what you want is to build an expert system. I don't want to
discourage you, bu
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Fred G wrote:
> Hello--
> I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
> decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
> pretty stuck on a few things.
> I've built a file that contains a list of many diseas
I would start by getting a lot of the parameters you need in a database such
as SQLite (comes with python).
So for example, you would have a disease with known symptoms. You could
structure your tables with diseases symptoms
So, say the disease is a cold in the table you will have a row for cold
Hello--
I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
pretty stuck on a few things.
I've built a file that contains a list of many diseases and their associated
symptoms. For example, here are
2011/6/13 Steven D'Aprano
> Okay fine, so "1024" stored as a number only requires 10 bits (binary
>>> digits) to store,
>>>
>>
>> Actually, 11. :-)
>>
>
>
> I see your smiley, but actually more than that.
OK, this was the math, I just told that 10 bits were not enough for 2^10.
>
> And if you'
Válas Péter wrote:
2011/6/12 Brett Ritter
Okay fine, so "1024" stored as a number only requires 10 bits (binary
digits) to store,
Actually, 11. :-)
I see your smiley, but actually more than that. Due to the way computers
are designed, numbers are stored in fixed bundles of 8 bits making a
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>
> Okay fine, so "1024" stored as a number only requires 10 bits (binary
> digits) to store,
Actually, 11. :-)
Another point that was still not emphasized enough: that's why Python's
documentation at
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict say
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At 2011-06-13 01:13:05，"Steven DAprano" wrote:
>Ryan Strunk wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I'm designing a timeline. When the user presses the right arrow, 0.1 is
>> added to the current position. The user can add events to the timeline, and
>> can l
Ganesh Kumar wrote:
Hi Guys.
I want python-gobject package for debian4 (etch). But unfortunately
removed for debian4 depository .
This is not a Python problem. It is especially not a problem about
learning Python.
You should ask this at either a Debian forum or on the python-gobject
mailin
Vincent Balmori wrote:
I am stuck on a question for Absolute Beginner's. I googled this and there have
been others who have not understood the question and I am also not clear on the
question he is asking. This function is a part of a tic tac toe program."Improve
the function ask_number() so th
Hi Guys.
I want python-gobject package for debian4 (etch). But unfortunately
removed for debian4 depository .
How to install python-gobject package in debian4..
My Idea is
download debian5 repository python-gobject.deb file
Install in debian4.
I have try is working fine.
but the thing is rebo
I am stuck on a question for Absolute Beginner's. I googled this and there have
been others who have not understood the question and I am also not clear on the
question he is asking. This function is a part of a tic tac toe
program."Improve
the function ask_number() so that the function can be
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