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- noun Plural form of
lambda .
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Adding closure support (also called lambdas or anonymous methods) will simplify certain parts of the Java coding experience and are being hotly debated for inclusion in the Java 7 release.
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Adding closure support (also called lambdas or anonymous methods) will simplify certain parts of the Java coding experience and are being hotly debated for inclusion in the Java 7 release.
doggdot.us 2009
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· Expanded the "lambdas" example with a contribution by Artur Miguel Dias, more sample queries
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What look like upsilons to some may be lambdas to others.
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What look like upsilons to some may be lambdas to others.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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Right after that in the same section of the book the author tells you how to cheat this by using list comprehensions and what not to get more complicated logic into the lambdas, presumably because it is often good to do so, but then says you should worry about obfuscating your code.
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Hmm, the reason lambdas are crippled is because it's awkward (to say the least) to have an indentation-based function body inside an expression.
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Just try to design your own syntax for Python lambdas that allows multiple statements, ifs, fors, etc and you will quickly realize why it was done the way it is.
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Iz maiB teh lambdas r the rams, adn teh lambmums r teh ewes?
Communist cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Using a stdev that is reduced with the square root of the mean (as opposed to using an unchanging stdev) for a normal distribution keeps the fit between a normal distribution and Poisson “fitting” as the means (lambdas) are reduced, but with means less than 4, the divergence between the normal and Poisson distributions is rapid.
More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit 2007
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