TriinT

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   by TriinT 17y ago

   They will never sell Chanel No. 5 in gas stations because it would cheapen it. Likewise, a blog that tolerates retarded trollish comments looks cheap. If I were one of the IBM scientists who worked on that project, I would hate to have my
2. 212.▲
   by TriinT 17y ago

   True. But would it be too far-fetched to claim that the quality of a website / blog can be indirectly measured by the quality of its comments? A quality blog should not tolerate certain comments which are more appropriate for YouTube.
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   Thanks for the links. Much appreciated.
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   Have you read the comments on gizmodo? They're trying? Trying what? What they usually do is copy-paste from the source. That does not add much value. Hence, I ask again: where's the URL to the original press release? I don't want to read su
5. 215.▲
   by TriinT 17y ago

   Where's the URL to the original IBM press release / article? I would rather read the news from the source, than from those gizmodo subhuman morons any day...
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   Mostly posting links as I come across them during my research. There's no point in trying to index the known math ebook universe... it's already been done: http://us.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html
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   Air-powered LEGO V8 engine running at 1440 rpm (vid)(nicjasno.com)

   53 points by TriinT 17y ago|9 comments
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   Lectures on Discrete and Polyhedral Geometry (free ebook) [pdf](math.umn.edu)

   12 points by TriinT 17y ago|3 comments
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   Check out the jenga pistol too. It's priceless: http://woodgears.ca/jenga_pistol/index.html
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    The Evolution of High Tension Power Distribution (2005)(insulators.info)

    3 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Binary Marble Adding Machine(woodgears.ca)

    21 points by TriinT 17y ago|3 comments
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    Some LEGO machines(sentex.net)

    6 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    The Fourier Transform and its Applications (free ebook) [pdf](see.stanford.edu)

    43 points by TriinT 17y ago|2 comments
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    The Binary Marble Adding Machine(exploringbinary.com)

    2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Is that a rhetorical question?
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    What engineers know (1997)(americanheritage.com)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|3 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    From the guidelines: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." So,
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Am I the only one wondering why is this being posted on HN? There's nothing interesting about the article, except for the lesson that strip clubs exist to separate losers from their money. Is that news?
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    Inside a Predator Strike [video](defensetech.org)

    3 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Because Americans react to some words in a Pavlovian manner. It's a way of turning their independent thinking capabilities off. For instance, white collar criminals who engage in predatory activities always use the words "free market" as a
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    I assumed he does, indeed, rely on collaborators for computer stuff. After all, although Diaconis is a former magician, no amount of magic would cause the papers to write themselves. In fact, there were two things I liked about this passage
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    Game theory and ad-hoc networks (paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com)

    7 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    An interesting passage from the article: He still doesn't [own a computer]. He says he got sick of adjusting to new operating systems and noted, after not using computers for several years, that "nothing bad happened to me. And I said, 'We
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    Persi Diaconis - magician-turned-mathematician (2004)(news-service.stanford.edu)

    21 points by TriinT 17y ago|5 comments
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    Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs (free ebook)(stat-www.berkeley.edu)

    29 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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    Computer Science and Game Theory: A Brief Survey (2007) [pdf](cs.cornell.edu)

    5 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata (2004)(pnas.org)

    4 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Graph Theory in Practice (2000)(americanscientist.org)

    5 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Cryptographic and Physical Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems for Solutions of Sudoku(wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)

    2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    The birth of spread spectrum technology(people.seas.harvard.edu)

    9 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments