Almaviva

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by Almaviva 11y ago
> 'what are humans still good for?' To take this from chess is rather silly. Chess is a discrete game on 64 squares with a handful of possibilities in a given position, and a result of three different outcomes. It's right
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by Almaviva 11y ago
On a slightly different note, the musical version is nice too: https://vimeo.com/8022406
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by Almaviva 12y ago
So if it evaporates, as in the parent question, what does "requires 1 gallon of water" mean? One gallon goes back in the air, right? It will presumably end up as rain? So the net loss of water is 0, or am I missing something? Is t
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by Almaviva 12y ago
Am I really that rare that I treasure people above all others who will speak to me directly if they don't like something? With the themes in this article and others like it, are they how you should behave if you want to meet your own g
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by Almaviva 12y ago
> Also, the ZX81 had the best cover art for any programming manual EVER: Nope. http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/...
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by Almaviva 12y ago
There's something worth talking about, which is that a sophisticated and ingenious mess is orders of magnitude more costly than a simple minded mess. My experience with brilliant functional programmers is that it's hard to know wh
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by Almaviva 12y ago
That or they just would rather suffer than talk to or work with another human being.
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by Almaviva 12y ago
"Even better, a majority of Biology degrees in 2012 (58%) were earned by women." Why is it "better" that men are underrepresented in a particular discipline of science?
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by Almaviva 12y ago
I think it's simpler than some of explanations here. You're not rendering onto the curved eye, you're rendering onto a flat monitor. If you imagine the game view as a window, a straight line outside always projects toward you
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by Almaviva 12y ago
Everyone I know, who has a conviction that other humans experience emotion, believes it for unscientific reasons.
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by Almaviva 13y ago
He shouldn't call his game "2048" if it has that bug. It's a much easier game than the original one, as you are never forced to move a big number out of a corner and you never fear the dreaded position where you have exa
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by Almaviva 13y ago
For the depth and length of this article, I'm pretty surprised he didn't seem to mention the Sierpinski triangle patterns that can occur on shells, see: http://www.gmilburn.ca/2009/07/16/i-see-sierp
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by Almaviva 13y ago
Me too (us too?) but I guiltily admit it's partly because I'd like to experience being Genghis Khan.
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by Almaviva 13y ago
Look under "examples" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem
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by Almaviva 13y ago
> Step 1: Let S1 = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... Because it's not so clearly stated in the article, step 1 is already flawed. > the algebraic rules that apply to regular numbers do not apply to non-converging infinite sums I'm sure the
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by Almaviva 13y ago
> 1. Lots of users use the same password on multiple sites I'd never say this at a job interview but I'll be Devil's advocate: As a business, this isn't my problem, it's yours. If you want the convenience of the
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by Almaviva 13y ago
Does a set do so much that you'd be worried about doing it wrong? Not to say having it in a common mature library wouldn't be an advantage, but it's something I'd be pretty sure I could implement and get right the first
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by Almaviva 13y ago
Am I the only one who thinks writing my own Set data structure (based on a map under the hood) isn't crazy at all?
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by Almaviva 13y ago
Are the complaints about PHP even controversial? The built in library functions are a mess, and mostly terrible. The syntax and basic language are overly verbose and have layers upon layers of cruft. The type and object systems are grafted
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by Almaviva 13y ago
The Earth, by volume, has less than 1 person per 100 cubic kilometers. Since a lot more people could fit in that space, it's underpopulated, right?
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by Almaviva 13y ago
But what if there's a student in the class more intelligent than Feynman... oh wait.
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by Almaviva 13y ago
You at 16 didn't need the kind of advice that I did. Congratulations, seriously.
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by Almaviva 13y ago
"It will just happen" is advice for normal people, not you. Nothing will ever happen, not a single thing, that you don't work for. You have a chance to experiment and make mistakes socializing with girls and it's accepta
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by Almaviva 13y ago
A nipple slip.
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by Almaviva 13y ago
This is getting into questions you can't ask, and IQ is a severely flawed metric, but I wonder what the IQs are of the parents, and if the children's scores are higher or lower, and if we can rule out heredity.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
Back in my day, the nerd kids were building games in Flash, and they were generally better than these:)
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by Almaviva 14y ago
It's very possible his strength max in the beginning was much higher (100+) but a big part of learning to bench press with dumbbells is the balance and coordination.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
The next step is to find a vulnerable seam like this in the real universe.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
A counterexample is if you build a huge non-inverted pyramid and then put an extra brick in the middle on the bottom. It wouldn't balance but you could easily imagine putting many tons of weight on that single brick sticking out on the bott
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by Almaviva 14y ago
Cosmologists will tell you more but it doesn't contradict how gravity works at large distances at all - we just see gravity working on something in a familiar way and don't know quite what it is.

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