But we are going to be spending a fair amount of time talking actually about the meaning and the function of Israel's purity laws and cultic laws in a later lecture.

但是接下来我们将花相当一部分的时间,讨论以色列纯度法律和祭仪法律的,意义和作用。

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So as a function and not as a subjective consciousness to which we appeal to grasp a meaning, the author still does exist.

所以作为一种功能，而非一种我们需要领会的主观意识,作者仍是存在的。

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The answer is I can't. OK, in the simple case of integers I can, but in the case of something more complex like faces or fingerprints or passwords for that matter, it's hard to design a hash function that has completely even distribution, meaning that it takes any input into exactly one output spot.

答案是我不能，好吧,在简单的整数的例子中,我可以做到，但是在一些更复杂的场景中,比如面部，指纹，密码相关的问题中，很难设计一个哈希函数具备完全平均的分配,也就是说，做到对任一输入，可以准确地得到相应的唯一输出,因此在一个哈希问题中。

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Then, to find the meaning of b, we take one derivative of this, dx/dt, that's velocity as a function of time, and if you took the derivative of this guy, you will find as at+b. That's the velocity of the object.

接下来,为了弄清b的含义,我们取它的一阶导数,dx/dt,得到速度作为时间的函数,如果你对它求导的话,你会得到at+b,这就是物体的速度

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It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

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