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The Difficulty with Difficulty
Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2000Carroll's decision to treat mass art as a topic worthy of serious philosophical attention is to be commended. It forms part of a sustained attempt to extricate Anglo-American aesthetics from its long-standing love affair with the fine arts. In so doing, it rightly urges on us the importance of those less rarefied art forms that are to be found on ...
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Gut, 2009
A 34-year-old man underwent gastroscopy to evaluate episodes of difficulty in swallowing. Gastroscopy revealed suspected extraluminal compression in the oesophageal–cardiac junction (fig 1). History of epigastric fullness was also noted. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a cystic lesion between the left lobe of the liver and the oesophagus.
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A 34-year-old man underwent gastroscopy to evaluate episodes of difficulty in swallowing. Gastroscopy revealed suspected extraluminal compression in the oesophageal–cardiac junction (fig 1). History of epigastric fullness was also noted. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a cystic lesion between the left lobe of the liver and the oesophagus.
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On the difficulty of computations
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1970Two practical considerations concerning the use of computing machines are the amount of information that must be given to the machine for it to perform a given task and the time it takes the machine to perform it. The size of programs and their running time are studied for mathematical models of computing machines.
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Some Difficulties with Difficulty
symploke, 2006For FC2, Ben Marcus' defense of experimental fiction poses the question of the present. Jonathan Franzen was past before he arrived, but why other words are here now seems puzzling. The fact of mass communication bedazzles everybody. No longer protected by distance or time, we live in the whole world at once, like postmodern gods, experiencing our own ...
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On the Difficulty of Nonograms
ICGA Journal, 2012Nonograms are a popular type of logic puzzles, where a pixel grid has to be filled with black and white pixels, based on a description that indicates the lengths of the consecutive black segments for each row and column. While the Nonograms that can be found in puzzle books can typically be solved by applying a series of highly local reasoning steps ...
Kees Joost Batenburg, Walter A. Kosters
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2020
This essay examines the common notion, beginning in the Song period, that Du Fu is a difficult poet to read and understand. By comparing the lexical range and allusions found in a representative set of Du Fu’s works with the vocabulary and literary-historical knowledge found in a range of medieval educational texts, I argue that if Du Fu’s poetry, in ...
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This essay examines the common notion, beginning in the Song period, that Du Fu is a difficult poet to read and understand. By comparing the lexical range and allusions found in a representative set of Du Fu’s works with the vocabulary and literary-historical knowledge found in a range of medieval educational texts, I argue that if Du Fu’s poetry, in ...
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