ColinWright

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How to Not Be Boring, According to a Psychologist Who Researches Boredom(vice.com)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|1 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
Most spam I receive are dictionary attacks, or emails harvested from my web site and places where I make it available. Such as my profile here on HN. But there some that must have been leaked or sold from specific services. These include,
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She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter(wired.com)
1 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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Google's DeepMind AI Taught Itself to Walk (2017)(youtube.com)
1 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper?(theguardian.com)
5 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
Taking your question at face value, it's a "Book Report" on the book entitled "Practical Doomsday". So there's a book called "Practical Doomsday" which Larry Hosken has read, and this is a brief repor
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Book report: Practical Doomsday(lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|3 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
You have a different sense of "Click Bait" from mine. When found, it was mysterious. The article explains where it was found, the surprise, the mystery, and then the investigation. I don't think the title is at all "cli
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Mysterious Kodak Mosaic Discovered Behind Drywall After Decades(petapixel.com)
14 points by ColinWright 5y ago|2 comments
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Are You Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing(arxiv.org)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|1 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
Outstanding film, outstanding cast, outstanding performances. I initially watched it because Stanley Tucci is in it ... I stayed for the drama, and then Jeremy Irons stole it.
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by ColinWright 5y ago
During spin-up the lateral force on the projectile increases slowly until it reaches maximum. When it's released, this load disappears almost instantaneously and the object is effectively in free-fall ... effectively 0g. Then it hits
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by ColinWright 5y ago
My favourite, which I think is easily explained, is this. We are mostly familiar with the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... Each term is the sum of the two previous. Let's modify this, and instead of adding the im
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Algorithms and Data Structures – Transition systems (2004) [pdf](cs.au.dk)
79 points by ColinWright 5y ago|14 comments
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How to Soundproof a Room(popsci.com)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
The G load increase is comparatively slow, but the release is pretty sudden. Lots of things "bounce" in funny ways when you put them under very large loads, then release that load suddenly.
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by ColinWright 5y ago
He went through a phase of being sick of it, but towards the last years he came back to it a bit. It was fun watching him and Bill Gosper talking about some of the finer points.
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by ColinWright 5y ago
Not last April, the April before. He died April 11th, 2020. He was an entertaining man ... it was great fun playing backgammon against him, and he was always baffling when he went off on one of his latest ideas and/or investigations.
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Conway's Game of Life – Mathematics and Construction [pdf](conwaylife.com)
87 points by ColinWright 5y ago|22 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
I have a tool to "Chart" Twitter conversations. For example: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1511425005443174402.svg https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1510898215448678400.svg I fi
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Remembering Mrs. Ford(misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)
3 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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First day of r/Place in 1 minute(old.reddit.com)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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Mir Spacecraft: Worst collision in the history of space flight(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
Written version: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
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Classic HN: Growing a Language (1998, Video)(youtube.com)
1 points by ColinWright 5y ago|1 comments
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Searching for the Truth(aperiodical.com)
1 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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Pi Search – find any given number in the digits of pi(katiesteckles.co.uk)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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Security experts fear the DMA will break WhatsApp encryption(theverge.com)
3 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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Meccano Firmware Updater(neil.fraser.name)
2 points by ColinWright 5y ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 5y ago
75 comments from when this was submitted 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8142269 A further 28 comments from when it was submitted from a different source 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com

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