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by Kutta 13y ago
It seems a massive violation of basic DRY to come up with new names instead of using those that have been a staple in math for the last 50 years. It's also just about 5 words in total, if you count the most important and widely used Ha
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Two Types Of Startups (2012)(rationalconspiracy.com)
2 points by Kutta 13y ago|0 comments
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by Kutta 13y ago
Well, the planets are tori here because of the extraordinary spinning; they have 3-4 hour long days.
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by Kutta 13y ago
Are you taking into account the correction from centripetal force, though? Even in the case of the hollow sphere, if we spin it fast enough it'll work just like your standard spinning space station, on the inside surface (or at least o
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Torus-Earth(aleph.se)
266 points by Kutta 13y ago|62 comments
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by Kutta 13y ago
The main purpose of Rust is to be a practical, safe alternative to C++. Go and D are NOT such languages, because of the mandatory garbage collection. From time to time there's been efforts to replace C++ with safer garbage collected la
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by Kutta 13y ago
Vector does the SOA represetation too.
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by Kutta 13y ago
The rewriting part - if not the comping up with proofs part - is done automatically in quite a few libraries. You can specify the expression rewriting rules in pragmas in your source and GHC will carry them out.
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by Kutta 14y ago
I must mention that actual gameplay challenges (aside from megaprojects) do diminish considerably even when taking the "deeper stuff" into account. I once did a speedrun for wiping out hell; it took about 4 hours. There are many unbalanced
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by Kutta 14y ago
Yep, the "sort only to get head" trick only works fully with selection sort, where it reduces complexity from O(n^2) to O(n) (reduces to a simple max/min). But it also confers some advantage in the case of standard merge sort: the last two
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by Kutta 14y ago
This seems to be massively more readable to me. Looking at the video version of the code I spent quite a few seconds looking at the non-chained comparison ("everyone chains comparison when checking bounds. Why isn't it that way here?"), and
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by Kutta 15y ago
Phonetic alphabet seems to be a beast greatly different to what this Dotsie font tries to achieve. Dotsie appears to be about compression, reading speed and more utilization of word-picture association. Phonetic alphabets are not that great
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by Kutta 15y ago
Well, the awesome Yvain (aka Scott Siskind) must be mentioned here, since he made years ago a list of lists of lists of lists. http://www.raikoth.net/lololol.html Please heed the warning in the bottom.
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by Kutta 15y ago
It's a bit too great leap of an analogy from bacteria to AI.
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by Kutta 15y ago
On the contrary, the guardians had to pay some amount if they let the AI out. The stakes varied greatly, but if I recall correctly Eliezer cashed in 3000 dollars (or something in that ballpark) from one guy.
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by Kutta 15y ago
An AI in a box that wants to affect the outside world minimally, but can answer questions posed to it. See the paper: http://www.aleph.se/papers/oracleAI.pdf
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by Kutta 15y ago
I usually play it at d9b with 2,5 sec intervals. I intend to advance higher though.
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by Kutta 16y ago
Commentary: http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/02/boy-without-cerebel...
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by Kutta 16y ago
I don't know much about Ferris, and haven't read the book but I've been a quite devoted life extensionist for a while, researching diets and studies and nutritients relentlessly, and a favorite researcher and blogger of mine is Chris Master
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by Kutta 16y ago
"It's all available on the internet" might be almost true if you consider P2P and rapidshare likes.
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by Kutta 16y ago
Borges and Marquez are the two I latin americans I'm acquainted with and they are overall the most famous too. Borges is always very brainy and philosophical in a very good way; sometimes he even ventures into flat-out mindfuck territories.
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by Kutta 16y ago
^I laughed out.
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by Kutta 16y ago
Um, the picture was taken from Earth orbit. You will NOT find the solar system in this image.
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by Kutta 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1334034 Whole wheat, now matter how "unrefined" it is, is still an extremely crap food. You get a bit more minerals and proteins, but get more harmful phytates along with it. In general, it is like addi
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by Kutta 16y ago
An issue that is just as great as that ^ is that fructose is a glycating agent potentially reaching high concentrations is the liver, causing direct damage to it, elevating liver enzymes and contributing to non-alcoholic fatty liver syndrom
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by Kutta 16y ago
Sucrose is what you speak of; sugar is a general term used to cover a variety of molecules. Sucrose though is often referred to as table sugar.
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by Kutta 16y ago
"Refined" is actually only a heuristic in regards to carbs, not an all by itself meaningful distinguishing feature. Refined carbs that are bad are bad for reasons having little to do with being refined; there are also thoroughly refined foo
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by Kutta 16y ago
+ many to what is written above, except the issue with acidity, which is as of now an excessively dubious hypothesis, see: http://www.imminst.org/forum/Acid-base-hypothesis-t40269.htm... Also, I shall point out that oat is a glaring excep
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by Kutta 16y ago
Not really; pigs in particular have been bred to contain much, much less fat and more muscle than what is typical in wild boars and ancient pig breeds. The relatively rare mangalitsa hog is a perfect example of a fatty breed. Although I not
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by Kutta 17y ago
It would help with some kinds of depression, somewhat help hypertension and obesity, but would not even remotely cure any of them. I'd name five factors that are strong promoters of a vast number of current widespread diseases: vitamin D de

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