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by apu 17y ago
This is similar to the accepted idiom in python as well: create a dictionary mapping choices to outcomes. For the special case of sequential numerical choices, a list works as well. For the special- special case of numerical choices for si
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by apu 17y ago
Although SVD can be applied to images, it's not a particularly good compression method. It's fairly expensive to compute, and the Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG) or Wavelet Transform (JPEG2000) provide similar quality at a fraction of the
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by apu 17y ago
A few years ago, I attended a talk about the Mars rovers, where the speaker (Steve Squyres) mentioned that there was a time when one of the rovers had accumulated so much dust on its solar panels that it was in danger of dying. When hopes w
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Ask HN: Great Non-Hackers?
2 points by apu 17y ago|3 comments
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by apu 17y ago
There is this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/10novel.html (coming soon to an iPhone near you)
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by apu 17y ago
If you already know all about higher-order programming and just want a javascript library with all the haskell/ML-style goodness, I highly recommend O. Steele's Functional library: http://osteele.com/sources/javascript/functional/ If noth
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Optimizing 30,000+ Ships In Realtime(christophermpark.blogspot.com)
1 points by apu 17y ago|0 comments
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Designing Emergent AI, Part 3: Limitations(christophermpark.blogspot.com)
1 points by apu 17y ago|0 comments
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Designing Emergent AI, Part 2: Queries and Code(christophermpark.blogspot.com)
1 points by apu 17y ago|0 comments
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by apu 17y ago
I'm really disappointed in how little you're doing with your time ;-)
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by apu 17y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but is there a javascript library that I can use to generate html strings which can be used similarly to your lisp code? i.e., something like this: var users = [...]; var s = h3("Hacker News Consists of the followi
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Fun with a webcam(raphnet.net)
2 points by apu 17y ago|2 comments
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Student Device Turns Phone Gestures Into Email(news.duke.edu)
8 points by apu 17y ago|6 comments
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by apu 17y ago
I'd also be very interested in hearing about how easy/hard it was to develop for all of these platforms. Were you able to share any code or resources? How long did each one take? How easy/hard was the process of getting them on their respec
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by apu 17y ago
While not applicable to other areas, I know that conference papers in CS (and many journal articles as well) have stringent page limits. Thus, given a short amount of space, you have to prioritize what goes in the paper. Secondly, when writ
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by apu 17y ago
Graphics developments such as these (and many others presented at SIGGRAPH) do indeed turn into real software quite frequently, sometimes as part of upgrades to existing softwares. Given that this work was done partially by people at Adobe,
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by apu 17y ago
Maybe I'm being slow, but I don't see a difference in the two...
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CSS text-shadow Fun: Realtime Lighting Demo(zachstronaut.com)
6 points by apu 17y ago|1 comments
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by apu 17y ago
I wish I could give you an additional upvote for leaving out (intentionally?) economists from your list.
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by apu 17y ago
I don't think that building a successful start-up is less of an intellectual achievement than doing scientific research. I strongly disagree. I have the utmost respect for those who have built successful startups, but virtually none are a
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by apu 17y ago
This is true at all the top CS programs as well. They look at: 1. Past research (including published papers) 2. Recommendation letters GRE scores are a pre-filter (not set too high, I think, and certainly the CS subject GRE is ignored, even
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by apu 17y ago
As well as the fact that sometimes entire new fields open up in very short periods of time -- for example, physicists thought at the end of the 19th century that they were basically just tying up loose ends, when relativity and quantum mech
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by apu 17y ago
I just reread what I wrote and realize that I was rather ambiguous about my thoughts. I was completely agreeing with Chomsky et al. that post-modernism is complete bullshit. To your point, if you read the linked article, you will note tha
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by apu 17y ago
I wonder what has caused the sudden influx of articles excoriating post-modernism/structuralism on HN? It's fun to read, of course, but the utter bullshit of these cults is so patently obvious (to everyone, I'd hope), and yet I find it to b
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by apu 17y ago
Fair enough, although I was asking a different question (not very clearly, I suppose). Is there a language X and a feature (or set of features) Y for which the following statement holds? "Language X is more powerful than Lisp because it has
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by apu 17y ago
Slicehost has an article on how to set this up: http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/10/25/creating-mx-records...
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by apu 17y ago
Are macros still at the "top" of the features pyramid? In http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html , PG argues that Lisp is more powerful than other languages because it has macros. However, in the 50 years since the invention/discovery of Lisp
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by apu 17y ago
Although I can't comment on this specific case, symmetry in code has always been a warning sign to me that things need to be refactored.
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by apu 17y ago
Since you're not asking for a living space, I assume you and your colleagues are living somewhere else. If so, then the obvious question is why you all can't just work from one of your apartments?
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by apu 17y ago
I stumbled onto this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFCcvZFP6D8 and found the description of how the filmmakers worked (the submitted article) to be really fascinating. Particularly interesting were the technical comments b

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