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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> If you are unsure to which class you belong, then consider the following two statements. (i) The point of solving problems is to understand computation better. (ii) The point of understanding computation is to become better able to so
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Has anyone come across the Neo-Doom megawad? There is one level with a Cathedral.... you walk in through the entrance to see a few dozen imps standing at pews, and there are a couple of Knights of Hell and a Baron on the front stage giving
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That reminded me that Descent is the only game to really* make me feel nauseous - great game though!* What a coincidence, I mentioned Descent's notorious nausea inducing properties on HN a few days ago. The version I played was
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
If you are referring to "the two cultures", what would those cultures be?
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The code on most of SpaceX's spacecrafts is in C++. A few weeks ago I found out that the B-2 Spirit now flys on olde C . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit#Fur... > I think it is
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I was up to 900 mg/day at my peak. How many cups would that equate to?
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Not very Von Neumann was a genius in every single form of the word. The only historical figures I feel safe comparing him to is Sir Isaac Newton (which is a stretch Newton is really beyond compare). Newton is overrated, and has been
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That's a vacuous statement. She said "big" gaps. And I'm saying that she's making errors that no one with a background in CS (e.g. a degree) ought to make. I have no idea what your agenda is in lavishing all t
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
IIRC RMS has a good background in physics. Seymore Cray worked with radios during WWII and had a very strong background in electrical engineering. He had to rely on Maxwell's equations to analyse signal paths [0]. The bottom anecdote [
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I've got a CS degree and 10 years of industry experience, and I'm still at clueless as she is and probably more.* Realising that you are clueless keeps you on your toes. Henri Poincare [0] is sometimes called "the last p
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That seems a bit semantic to me. She's basically saying "I never studied or worked extensively with X, so I have knowledge gaps about Y [which is tightly related to X, and often comes by studying X]". You can apply tha
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I mean, I appreciate the concept of what she's doing here, but that self-assessment sounds reasonable to me. I would use "realistic", as opposed to "reasonable", look hard enough and you will see that everyon
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Labour calls for 'owl for everyone' after Twitter hack(bbc.co.uk)
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Phillips' on github: https://github.com/mrrrgn
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> “I have all this experience but I suffer from a thing that almost every person who doesn’t have an actual background in CS does: I have islands of knowledge with big gaps in between,” she said. “Every time I'd come across some co
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Interesting, the link you posted refers to a "vomitorium", as opposed to a "vomitarium". I think the latter is a modern colloquialism that hasn't yet been adequately defined, but it sounds great. [0] is a good alter
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Potentially looks like a grand vomitarium (and I am terrified of heights), thank you. I've noticed you can download it on the site posted, I'll have to give it a go.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Second paragraph in the article > YouTube is about to begin testing the new service – which will charge people to watch and listen to music without ads, and download songs to their mobile devices – within the next few days, initially wi
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Looking at the decay chain of U-238 [0], some of the descendants of radon-222 have extremely short half-lives. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-238#Radium_series_.28or...
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The video did make me feel quite queasy, but it is not as bad as Descent [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I am replying to the last paragraph of darsham's comment.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
z = x + i*y = e^(a + i*b) = e^a*(e^(i*b)) = e^a(cos(b)+i*sin(b)) Both sin and cos are many to one functions. In the equation above, replacing b with b + 2*pi*t where t is any positive or negative integer, would result
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Dare I mention hypercomplex numbers? The first ones you come across are quaternions, represented by set H. Something I learned a few years ago, in set C there are two solutions to x^2+1=0, but in set H the set of solutions forms a Lie group
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I gooooogled it [0], the patent was filed on 10/11/2009 (I'm British, so read that as dd/mm/yyyy). Some of the other patents listed go back a few years [1]. [0] http://www.google.com/patents/US8
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I've calculated free education, it would basically collapse our government's finances. Free, useless education is costly, but in the long run, useful education works to the benefit of governments.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Yeah, I found this old chestnut: http://www.nostarch.com/assembly2.htm
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
After reading this article, I was reminded of [0]. The Earth's core is hot due to the presence of radioactive isotopes, both the uranium-238 and thorium-232 series occur in substantial quantities. This could alter the chemical composit
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That's the style in C-like languages. That style is in many cases inefficient. /* summation of successive integers */ /* don't worry, this should not cause overflow in a 32-bit signed integer type *&#x2
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Disclaimed: I know sweet f-a about cryptography, and was expecting 100% of this pdf to go straight over my head. On the other hand, why is the author using "i++" in a preamble of a for loop?
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I've been watching [0] for the past ten minutes or so. Fucking hell, individual instances of radon-222 are more predictable. [0] http://bitcointicker.co

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