JoeSmithson

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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   There's an XKCD [0] that hasn't aged well at all about how non-programmers fail to understand that some things that seem easy are actually really hard for a computer. Modern ML research moved a big chunk of these tasks into the &q
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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   Cryptocurrencies are really not that hard to understand. Without a doubt, they are better understood on average among HN readers than among cryptocurrency owners, and yet, it is the only subject where expressing doubt over it's worth a
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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   Not just Crossrail, even the new tube lines, such as the Northern Line Extension to Battersea are dug much wider than the old tunnels they connect up to. Obviously they carry the same trains as the rest of the line. The narrowness of the
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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   I remember the footnotes in one Shakespeare play I read at school saying something like "[2] this is a humourous reference to Christopher Marlowe's contemporaneous play..." which I sort of rolled my eyes at and remarked how t
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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   Is there a way to get all of Brett Victor's blog posts? One's like this don't seem to be linked from his main page (unless I'm missing something obvious)
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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   They got A the wrong way around
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   by JoeSmithson 8y ago

   Bubble sort's number of operations can vary from n, if the list is sorted already, up to O(n*n) if the list is reversed.