CarolineW

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The Reason for the Weird PHP Function Names(i-programmer.info)
1 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise(technologyreview.com)
1 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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How is Qubes OS different from(blog.invisiblethings.org)
1 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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Cambridge Analytica taken to court over data storage(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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3D-printed homes turn sludge into shelter(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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Space did not permanently alter former NASA astronaut’s DNA(theverge.com)
3 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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Learn morse code(learnmorsecode.com)
2 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 9y ago
So I got this message: Medium follows DNT but we track to personalize your experience and send data to select third-parties to make our features work. That's a novel interpretation of DNT. Not sure I ever want to
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Celebrating Stephen Hawking(plus.maths.org)
119 points by CarolineW 9y ago|7 comments
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Calculating Pi with Real Pies(youtube.com)
1 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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Hiveway changes direction with respect to funding ... is it dead already?(twitter.com)
1 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve(quantamagazine.org)
242 points by CarolineW 9y ago|33 comments
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Do you think this will be particularly common over the next three days? We see this submitted irregularly, fairly constantly, and I've not seen it being especially "clumpy". Most of them have been flagged and thus deleted, b
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Bitcoin is a public ledger of agreed transactions. I give you some goods, it's registerd in the ledger that you owe me some number of "thingies". Later someone gives me some goods, and on the ledger I transfer your debt to
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Forgive me, but you have me slightly confused. You say: > As usual, somebody undereducated mistakes notation ("0.9999...") for the real thing (a number). To whom are you referring?
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Squaring uncertain numbers(johndcook.com)
1 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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Manually Cranked Wood Toy Performs Sleight-Of-hand Magic(thisiscolossal.com)
1 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 9y ago
I've been using this technique for several years now, making sure that my honey-pot addresses are widely available. Any email that matches a whitelist gets through immediately. Anything that matches my blacklist goes straight to spam
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Tencent Software Beats Go Champ, Showing China's AI Gains(wired.com)
1 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Google Translate: "Child Radio"
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by CarolineW 9y ago
It's easy - there's a search link at the bottom of most pages, and I just put in "doctor die" to see what other people have said before. But submitting is easy, especially with the bookmarklet, and when something looks g
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218439
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Scientists warned Zuck the FB theory of interaction would make people miserable(boingboing.net)
27 points by CarolineW 9y ago|8 comments
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by CarolineW 9y ago
A Classic here on HN - here are a few of the previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 : 177 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865742 https://news.ycombinato
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Discussed at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15825700
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by CarolineW 9y ago
It also just "blows up" on any problem of any real complexity, and as such isn't really a solution.
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by CarolineW 9y ago
That feels trivially like saying: "If you can identify the crucial part of the challenge then it's easy." The problem then becomes one of identifying the crucial part of the challenge. If framed that way, your comment doesn&
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Note for readers - this is a new story, based on the idea of circular runways that's been submitted many times before, but talking about actually building one for real for drones. Here's a discussion of the main idea: https:&#x
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by CarolineW 9y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084575
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Building Web Reputation Systems: Top-Line Lessons on User Reputation Design(buildingreputation.com)
2 points by CarolineW 9y ago|0 comments

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