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Took me a couple of minutes looking at this to realize why this was interesting. It's like a baby being born holding its completed birth certificate.
by strictnein 10y ago
Took me a couple of minutes looking at this to realize why this was interesting.
It's like a baby being born holding its completed birth certificate.
- rkangel 10y agoOne of my friends had a birthday cake which had a QR code on it of the URL photo album containing photos of the birthday. Of course this is trivial to set up (create album before, upload photos after), but I found it amusing nonetheless.
- positivecomment 10y agoThis is a very creative and practical idea. Well, I haven't seen anyone (seriously, 0 people) scanning a QR code before so there is that...
- alanh 10y agoOr have the QR code go to a redirection URL that you can set to the album URL after the fact. E.g., easy with my link shortener software, 'Lessn More'
- tyre 10y agoMore closely, a baby being born with a birthmark of its DNA sequence on its skin—where the birthmark is genetic such that any clones (with the same DNA) would have the same birthmark.
- ouid 10y agoI'm not sure that's closer, DNA->organism is roughly a continuous mapping.
- superbatfish 10y agoThis sentence has forty-five (45) characters.
- glitchdout 10y agoSlightly related, I think you'll like this puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1THOPm0qTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1THOPm0qTw
- JadeNB 10y agoOr the good old self-referential aptitude test. http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/math-horizons/self-referential-aptitude-test-by-jim-propp http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/math-horizons/self-refe...
- calt 10y agoOr "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" ... even though he's clearly not singing it as a contraction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWi5jdgTUJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWi5jdgTUJs
- kristopolous 10y agoThat's pretty catchy. Weird Al is a really talented musician. I almost think he'd do greater things if he wasn't such a goofball all the time.
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y agoThe guy's career has spanned decades. Much longer than most of the "stars" he's parodied. He must be doing something right.
- noonespecial 10y agoRemaining a goofball all the time despite his talent and success is the great thing he's done.
- Lxr 10y agoReminds me of a fun problem I encountered as a younger lad: This sentence has three as, one b, two cs, two ds, thirty-six es, three fs, three gs, eleven hs, nine is, one j, one k, three ls, one m, eighteen ns, twelve os, one p, one q, eight rs, twenty-six ss, twenty ts, two us, five vs, seven ws, three xs, four ys and one z. I eventually found the solution by iteratively updating the approximate distribution of each letter and finally sampling [1] - not sure if there is a better way! [1] solve_2 in tsh.py at https://bitbucket.org/akxlr/tsh/src https://bitbucket.org/akxlr/tsh/src