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by Strilanc 13y ago
Is this... a Let's Play of learning a programming language? Because it's surprisingly effective. I learned and I was entertained.
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Here's a use case it allows: computing latency without storing the time locally. Drop the current time into the heartbeat, plus a cryptographic signature so the server can't change it. The signature requires a variable sized paylo
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Quantum mechanics doesn't allow instantaneous communication. QM does allow some additional forms of spontaneous coordination, like in quantum pseudo telepathy games [1], but there is no communication. There is no back-and-forth decisio
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Interesting 1 - (1 - 1/16^7)^250000000 ~= 61%
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by Strilanc 13y ago
I don't know about links to computational complexity, but in the many worlds interpretation the "classical approximation" is explained by "quantum decoherence". 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q
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by Strilanc 13y ago
How about the fact that there are no more than 5 platonic solids [1]? (See the proof in the article) 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
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by Strilanc 13y ago
A related video, showing orbits of asteroids discovered over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJsUDcSc6hE It starts with about 10k asteroids. By the end there's 10k being added every month.
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by Strilanc 13y ago
I noticed that the BSD 2 has a 'CANNOT' group that says: > Hold Liable > Describes the warranty and if the software/license owner can be charged for damages. which reads awkwardly. It's like someone was describin
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Unintentional humor when they say > will "take the form of a circular animated icon instead of a female character." Aw, shucks! > Here's a look at the program, courtesy of the aforementioned outlet. Because I have nos
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by Strilanc 13y ago
If I want to send an email to a political party I don't like, they may want me to sacrifice money to show I'm not a spammer. I don't want to send them money, so we agree to burn some instead.
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by Strilanc 13y ago
My impression was that frequentists and bayesians do actually disagree in some cases. The example I remember is, suppose you have a coin with a uniformly random bias, except that the bias will not be zero. What is the probability that you w
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by Strilanc 13y ago
I'm kind of worried that they checked so many types of things (64) on small outlier samples (top 300): > We ran eight different queries and sorted the questions according to: [8 criteria]. Then we compared the top 300 questions in e
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Detecting Simple Cycles Forming, Faster(twistedoakstudios.com)
1 points by Strilanc 13y ago|0 comments
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Third Party Bit Commitment(twistedoakstudios.com)
2 points by Strilanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by Strilanc 13y ago
This is bad advice. The password ends up in the program's binary where it is easily accessible. Also, users can't change it after it's compromised.
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Suppose the simulated mind goes insane within a few seconds. Just long enough to solve a captcha, before being restarted...
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by Strilanc 13y ago
40 MiB for ten million users? I think you should ditch the bloom filter if the false-positive rate is set so low it takes that much space. Assuming you can map phone numbers onto the integers from 0 to ten billion, trivial compression of th
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Looks like an Ig Nobel prize winner to me. > Although these negative results do not disprove time travel, given the great reach of the Internet, this search is perhaps the most comprehensive to date.
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by Strilanc 13y ago
A much better example of an automatically designed game, in my opinion, is Yavalath. It's a board game, which is a simpler problem space, but on the other hand it's actually been published and sold. I remember reading an article d
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Collection Equality is Hard(twistedoakstudios.com)
1 points by Strilanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by Strilanc 13y ago
> tests will be run > The maximum source size is 256 bytes. 256 bytes C++ busy beavers are going to run longer than the universe has existed. Expecting to run the tests seems like a misguided way to do the judging.
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Deadlocks in Practice: Don’t Hold Locks While Notifying(twistedoakstudios.com)
3 points by Strilanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by Strilanc 13y ago
For me, the best part of this article is how concrete it makes "this is challenging". I knew intellectually that making a film couldn't be easy, but seeing just this small bit of it broken down really drives the point home an
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Brute Force Parallelization(twistedoakstudios.com)
3 points by Strilanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by Strilanc 13y ago
In this case forever doesn't refer to "all of time" but to "an unbounded past".
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by Strilanc 13y ago
There's two more near the bottom of the author (James Mickens)'s Microsoft Research page[1]. The page itself is also funny. 1: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/
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by Strilanc 13y ago
The type system is definitely where I feel the most friction. However, I think a summary of "dynamic bleh" omits the bits of praise and discussion that I consider important to the content. I'm also not sure if nil-vs-null cou
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by Strilanc 13y ago
I generally assume people will understand static/dynamic as 'type associated with variable' vs 'type associated with value'. But you're dead on about strong/weak. You may get away with strong er and weak
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by Strilanc 13y ago
Thanks, that's actually a helpful thing to mention and obvious in hindsight. A view controller can be the owner of a .nib but not the class of a .nib, so the .nib is never a view controller. Are there particular divisions of respon
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by Strilanc 13y ago
I haven't done enough UIKit stuff to really comment on it, other than to say I also still find a lot of the conventions confusing or at least weird and also find that the documentation fails to answer my questions. I also don't ge

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