Darmani

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by Darmani 16y ago
It may be helpful if you state your mathematical background, though I'm guessing that, if you had taken any proof-based math course, you wouldn't be asking this. I recommend The Art of Problem Solving I and II. On the one hand, they're inte
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by Darmani 16y ago
GEB is excellent as a pop-science/pop-philosophy book, but (like most pop-sci books) it's terrible for actually learning any subject. You need more than one proof every 200 pages.
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by Darmani 16y ago
Just had a second look at your algorithm. You're essentially running a well-known DFA-minimization algorithm (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFA_minimization or http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cdm/pdf/minimization.pdf ), and then running Brzoz
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by Darmani 16y ago
There are several completely different algorithms for converting DFAs into regular expressions. See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cdm/pdf/KleeneAlg.pdf for three. One of my favorites involves eliminating states by replacing all pairs of transiti
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by Darmani 16y ago
My dad was a partner at LetsGet.net, specializing in online ordering for restaurants. They were acquired last week, and are based entirely on VB.net. He and the founder were both in their 40s at the start, and had a decade of Microsoft-base
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by Darmani 16y ago
This is largely from advice given in The Elements of Style. You are not alone in disliking it. http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549... is a good article attacking this and other bad advice given in that book.
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by Darmani 16y ago
10 year-olds learning to program is quite common, and I'm surprised that you're surprised that a 13 year-old might get far along enough in it to hear the name of a famous technologist. (I personally learned about PG in 6th grade, after seei
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by Darmani 16y ago
Keep in mind Belo Horizonte is in an extremely rich agricultural area. This model would be extremely hard to duplicate in most of the world.
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by Darmani 16y ago
ZDDs. A ZDD is a DAG of outdegree two where each node represents a set of subsets of some arbitrarily-ordered domain. A node's left child contains all subsets which lack the smallest element in those subsets; its right child contains all su
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by Darmani 16y ago
I don't know why you think that; it's really, really important that lambda terms are not functions. Bertrand Russell would explode if I tried to write f(f) for any function f.
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by Darmani 17y ago
"The main problem with "it" is that it's a pronoun, so you must be absolutely clear about what "it" refers to. " Absolutely false. The use of "it" without an antecedent is called "expletive," and is perfectly valid. I agree that it's often
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by Darmani 17y ago
Yes, burning fat really is that simple. A lot of this gets muddied from other factors, such as how various diets affect body composition, water retention, and appetite (supposedly much of the success of low carb diets comes from increased p
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by Darmani 17y ago
This reminds me of Tichu. It shares the mechanic of trying to make poker hands from passes, except that said poker hands are then played in a bizarre but awesome combination of poker, bridge, and President's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by Darmani 17y ago
No, America just winds up also buying much better and cheaper automobiles.
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by Darmani 17y ago
This page looks like it gives a very nice introduction to "programming" in the pure-untyped lambda calculus. But reading this, one would have no idea that a "meatier" side to lambda calculus existed. Just understanding the Church-Rosser the
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by Darmani 17y ago
There is very much an "if-statement" in lambda calculus. The basic idea is, in the Church Booleans, we think of true as a function which takes a then clause and an else clause, and returns the then clause (T=\lambda xy.x), and false as a fu
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by Darmani 17y ago
Why would it not be okay to get karma for sharing something you produced, but okay to get karma for sharing something someone else produced?
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by Darmani 17y ago
AP teaches what a plurality of colleges teach. Ten years ago, most colleges taught C/C++, and so did AP; when the balance switched to Java, AP switched as well. I heard earlier today that CMU will be switching its three basic programming co
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by Darmani 17y ago
I'm rewriting a card-game-playing environment written in Java. I originally wanted to use one of the Java implementations of Arc, but the low activity level of the forum (and my difficulty installing Rainbow a while back) makes me uneasy, s
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by Darmani 17y ago
I've never bought arguments like that. To me, this is just neo-mercantilism. I don't see why it makes a difference if the person who buys our product is in Seattle or Vancouver. If we're producing the most value we can at the least cost (no
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by Darmani 17y ago
Often when trying to sleep after a long period of deprivation, it feels different, in that I can actually feel individual systems switching off -- I might have music playing through my head but be incapable of conscious (subvocalized) thoug
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by Darmani 17y ago
Certainly impressive, but I take issue with the statement that this film cost $70 -- is the creator's time worthless? If this film grosses $140, I doubt he'll be jumping in joy over a 100% profit.
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by Darmani 17y ago
How are they defining small business? There are quite a few definitions that exclude startups. Still, since I've spent the last few months hearing rumors about a bill allowing the president to seize any business that "threatens the economy,
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by Darmani 17y ago
I downloaded Dwarf Fortress last Thursday. Worst decision I ever made. After having no idea what I was doing on the first fort, I spent an hour reading the Wiki the next day. I then proceeded to spend 6 hours straight playing it.
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by Darmani 17y ago
Much more promising to me than simulating larger regions of the brain is the ability to trace the execution of this region from the brain in detail and try to come up with a clue at how intelligence works. Evolution may be elegant itself, b
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by Darmani 18y ago
What gets on my nerves isn't whether people like capitalism, it's whether they go around saying that the system we have now is laissez-faire capitalism, and then huge bonuses to failed executives are testament to that. I have full respect f
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by Darmani 18y ago
All over the Internet (even a few other forums for the highly intelligent), there are people trying to blame the recession the "unfettered capitalism" we've apparently gained over the last decade. At HN, I expect people to know better, or,
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by Darmani 18y ago
Three of the four members of the US's team to the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) last year also attended Canada/USA Mathcamp. Take from that what you will.
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by Darmani 18y ago
A lot of this is just wishful optimism, but he's right to point out that deflation is not necessarily bad. I've been quite perplexed at Bernanke's efforts to stop the deflation that brought gas prices around here below $2 for the first time
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by Darmani 18y ago
The real issue is whether the identities conflict. It doesn't hurt my marriage to know that your marriage is great. Meanwhile, knowing someone is a proud follower of the One True Way threatens your identity as a member of the One True-Er Wa

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