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by a1k0n 13y ago
That doesn't work -- there are front-facing surfaces behind other front-facing surfaces. You can see an example of this in the point-drawing javascript implementation further down the page, where I do just that.
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by a1k0n 13y ago
Yes, I just collapsed all the rotations because it ended up being smaller code than doing the two separate axis rotations on x,y,z. Clarity and simplicity was the opposite of the goal here, it was an IOCCC entry. But I think I did pretty m
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by a1k0n 13y ago
Barnes-Hut uses a quadtree, doesn't it? I don't know whether the code was adapted to use an octree in 3D instead; maybe it was? FWIW there's a really interesting Google techtalk on how it works: http://www.youtub
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by a1k0n 13y ago
Not at all... "documents" were the user's play history and "words" were artists. So if you played one artist twice and another artist once it'd be like a document that says "artist1 artist1 artist2".
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by a1k0n 13y ago
Have you tried messing with the target perplexity? That seems to make a big difference.
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by a1k0n 13y ago
Ha, I made something very similar with the goal of mesmerizing passersby at a conference where we had a booth: http://www.a1k0n.net/spotify/artist-viz/ Used t-SNE on a vector clustering which came from LDA.
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by a1k0n 13y ago
I calculated this out a couple days ago. The hash rate has been rising pretty steadily exponentially with all the new ASICs coming online, and can be expected to double again within 25-30 days. The current break-even price for 1 GH/s
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by a1k0n 13y ago
except pos_c might be equal to pos_a or pos_b, and key[pos_c] just got rotated. It's not quite equivalent, I tried it.
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by a1k0n 13y ago
Exec-PC (huge BBS based in Milwaukee, WI) was full of anti-SEA propaganda in those days, which was just bizarre and I didn't understand why at the time. I also didn't realize the code was open. If only we had github in BBS form i
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by a1k0n 13y ago
You can always keep the un-rebased branch around if you want to preserve the history somewhere, and then squash the commits down to a smaller number on top of master. That solves the safety net problem, and master keeps its sanitized histo
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Simulating Natural Systems in a Web Browser(buildnewgames.com)
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by a1k0n 13y ago
There's always someone on the other side of a trade.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Not really; there's no rounding problem with x << 1. x * 2, x+x, x<<1 are all equivalent. The real reason it doesn't use the shift instruction on x86 is because it takes 3 bytes to encode the instruction whereas adding a r
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by a1k0n 14y ago
One could argue the editor's paring down of Earth's entry in the Guide to "mostly harmless" is an instance of exactly the same thing.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
I have to use the option key, FWIW. ctrl and command don't work.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Well, I don't know if they checked this but when I worked remotely for Yahoo I didn't use the VPN either -- there's a ssh gateway you can proxy through which works just fine. I assume they are aware of this...
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by a1k0n 14y ago
To be even more pedantic: There is 'loosing', as in releasing, but it's probably not what you mean unless you can already spell 'lose'.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Well, and I'm pretty sure Joomla! and Add To Cart don't belong in there either. Pretty much any web corpus will contain lots of this text, alongside lots of other random things, so statistical translation will produce... this.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Ah, but then you can't do a quick U-turn. I think ideally you'd queue up to two moves, the second always being a 180 if any, but if you change your mind it clears the queue. E.g. you're going right, you can queue up-left or down-left but
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by a1k0n 14y ago
The fibo_log routine is doing exponentiation by squaring as you suggest, but it isn't explained at all in the article. It just says it "uses interesting algorithmic strategies and is supposed to be O(log n)."
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Perhaps computercraft would be a better gateway drug then?
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by a1k0n 14y ago
I think calculators for interest calculations makes a lot of sense. I'd be pretty impressed by students doing P(1 + r/M)^N without a calculator, though I suppose you could do repeated tedious multiplications of P*(long decimal number). We
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Learn (just enough) to make (almost) anything(kickstarter.com)
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Ah, I misunderstood. That makes sense.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
This is sort of frightening. The obscurity of ACH was the only real security it had; now if I write a check, anyone who sees it can trivially withdraw whatever they want from my account using the above API, no? What sort of fraud protecti
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by a1k0n 14y ago
here's mine: http://0x10co.de/ua5qu
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by a1k0n 14y ago
This post here seems to be more informative: http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-its-all-... To save you a trip to Wikipedia, DMLS is Direct metal laser sintering -- 3D printing with metal.
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by a1k0n 14y ago
And if you feed the site's own copy into the analyzer, it complains not only about the use of passive voice, but also that "Unnecessary specification of gender is widely regarded as sexist. Probably recast the sentence."
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by a1k0n 14y ago
Not sure how to interpret "it doesn't have to be Donut C"...
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by a1k0n 14y ago
How about box2d via Emscripten? https://github.com/kripken/box2d.js/ In general I agree with your assessment though.

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