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by Alekhine 6y ago
There was quite a bit of lore in that game. You could do a fair bit of reading if you cared enough.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
That's close to my thinking. I doubt the researchers came up with PEDOT out of nothing, or maybe they did and they're rediscovering some ideas. Perhaps it was considered a more fringe or exploratory idea to use PEDOT back in the 2
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by Alekhine 6y ago
I noticed that too, having recently re-played that game. I never would have thought that was based on actual scientific research.
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Chainlink: A Decentralized Oracle Network(link.smartcontract.com)
1 points by Alekhine 6y ago|0 comments
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Thank you for writing this. To be blunt I don't understand about half of the terms you used, but I eventually will. Have you ever read Euclid's Elements? I recently took one of the few classes left in the country that uses Euclid,
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by Alekhine 6y ago
By what specific metrics is Uber a bad name? Uber is a short, catchy, two-syllable name. Libretaxi is a mouthful. The only good thing about it is that it's descriptive. It doesn't really stick in your mind like Uber does, or their
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Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo SportUsing Deep Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
2 points by Alekhine 6y ago|0 comments
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Would you mind explaining how learning proofs has helped you? I'm currently studying computer science on my own, so I would appreciate any tips.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Monero, a fungible, privacy-focused coin exists. It's near a hundred dollars in value now.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Crap name as well. It's a shame that open source projects can't market their ideas to save their lives.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
He means there used to be a time when people would mail binaries to each other more often, before they got too big and DRM'ed for that.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Why is Debian packaging such a terrible process, according to this post? Wouldn't it be a great thing if one of the oldest and most important distros made packaging simple? One of the problems people have with Linux is that software is
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Nice to see NixOS mentioned. Haven't tried it yet, but it's cool seeing such an innovative distro.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Wonderful article. I've often wondered if it was possible to have computer culture without a massive industry to support it.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
I'm interested to hear why you think general web search is pointless. I know that SEO and Google dropping various search functions has made things a little more annoying, but it's still easier to find information than it's ev
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Small nitpick, it was Cipher, not Tank.
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‘Academic’ Torrent Client Offers a Safe Haven for Pirate Sites(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by Alekhine 6y ago|0 comments
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by Alekhine 6y ago
It's a funny coincidence you reccomend that book, since it's already in my library. Found it at a local dump by chance. Had no idea it was well-regarded.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
At this point, is there any reason to believe that institutional racism does not exist?
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by Alekhine 6y ago
I thought this would be a piece on the history of torrent trackers. Too bad.
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Thanks! I appreciate the reccomendations.
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Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?
189 points by Alekhine 6y ago|108 comments
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by Alekhine 6y ago
No, and it never will be until: Open source creative and professional tools are on par with proprietary tools (MS Office, Adobe) in terms of function and UI, GUI applications are written for every conceivable setting a non-technical user wo
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by Alekhine 6y ago
I've tried this before. It's hard work to write everything you encounter down on paper. Thank god for laptops. It's an interesting practice, a sign of a time when information was a more precious commodity and had to be seize
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Me three!
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Discuss: Will the Fediverse ever replace current social networks?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Alekhine 6y ago|0 comments
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by Alekhine 6y ago
This is very cool. I don't suppose Linux is supported?
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by Alekhine 6y ago
We've been calling the Confederates rebels since the Civil War, and we're not going to stop. Though you could make the legal argument that States have the right to secede, since the Constitution does not expressly forbid it, and a
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by Alekhine 6y ago
Who gives a damn if their infrastructure is new and modern? Was that technology developed in China? It's possible, but I doubt it. And what kind of visit was this where you were inspecting their weapon systems, and ascertained that the
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Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (2016)(quantamagazine.org)
102 points by Alekhine 6y ago|109 comments

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