bhrgunatha

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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
The scatterlpots [1] of the time taken for the leaderboard (top 100) to finish part 1 (silver) and part 2 (gold) are a better indicator of difficulty. I'd like to see a plot of average (median or mode) to finish each part but only the
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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
The brilliance of the problem is that you're led to think that the odds have changed. I think there's a psychological component too. So many probability questions are about random events so you (very naturally) take a position tha
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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
University Of Washington CSEP501: Compiler Construction http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep501/ Keith Schwartz Stanford Compiler course CS143 http://www.keithschwarz.com/cs143
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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
Some artists truly are unique. and I think Ott falls into that category. Entheogenic, Slackbaba or Globular are probably the closest you'll find.
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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
I get far more engrossed with books than listening to audio plus listening to a story makes me feel tired which I think is a hangover from bedtime stories as a kid.
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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
In C# @"..." are verbatim strings - useful for capturing characters without having to escape them.
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by bhrgunatha 7y ago
There used to be a page that showed the view from a webcam located wherever the sun was currently rising as you viewed the page. Can't find it any more though - probably been removed.
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I spent a huge amount of time playing around with a demo of SSEYO Koan Pro which Eno used to make Generative Music 1 [1] and which evolved over time into Wotja by Intermorphic [2]. It's about time I tried Wotja out! [1] https:/&
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I like the rough guideline to change from eating vegetables/juicing fruit to juicing vegetables/eating fruit.
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I love that talk. Raymond Hettinger is a gem. What I took from that is the implementation does preserve order but it isn't guaranteed yet and in theory it could change.
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
No need for an extension. Reader view doesn't always work though (at least in Firefox.) You can use the icon in the URL bar or CTRL + ALT + R to open reader view. Firefox does some detective work to choose whether to show the reader vi
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
The amortized cost of prepend (unshift in ruby) is O(1) (since Ruby 2). Of course that means at some point you'll get O(n) prepend. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8353026/what-is-the-run-...
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
There are 2 forms of range in ruby: inclusive 2 dots - 1..5 => 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and exclusive 3 dots 1...5 => 1, 2, 3, 4 It's always felt deeply counter-intuitive to me because .. feels like it represents less than ... but that&#x27
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
My favourite Fizzbuzz articles 50 Fizzbuzzes [1] and Fizzbuzz in Tensorflow [2]. [1] http://vihart.com/fifty-fizzbuzzes/ [2] http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I use Stylus with a set of rules to increase contrast and change the font. Just changing the font (with default weight 400) has a huge effect on legibility. Stylus - https://add0n.com/stylus.html
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Sorry I didn't mean equipment, I meant artist recommendations.
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Any recommendations for modern artists?
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I vividly remember a sense of total awe watching it, thinking here we are, watching a broadcast from inside the JPL - as it happens! - of a craft in a totally new, complex method of landing after travelling and being guided millions of kilo
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
The oh-my-zsh git plugin [1] aliases have become second nature. No need to install oh-my-zsh you can just take the file or cherry pick (!) the useful ones. I may drop oh-my-zsh completely and just set up zsh with the small subset of plugins
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Freakonomics podcast had an episode on apologies recently - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/apologies/ - one of the more interesting things discussed was how the start and end of the apology has a dominating impac
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Dev tools to fix sites during one off visits and Stylus for regular visits. Stylus is an absolutely essential add-on for me in recent years. It's useless trying to convince the world to have sane, readable text size and contrast on de
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
According to Rosetta Code Algol 68 had string interpolation. [1] It'd be interesting to see if there are any older languages that supported it too. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/String_interpolation_(included)...
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Futility Closet podcast Ep 218 had a section on plus codes this/last week, including what3words and parodies like what 2 numbers - Lat, Lon! They have the full list of links. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/09&
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
!bang is more helpful I think !bang hacker news !bang stack exchange !bang hoogle ...
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
What about user lock-out?
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Natural minor scale as opposed to harmonic or melodic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
It usually means the main, default or preferred application.
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
Same here - the front matter page mentions web components - perhaps the support is different /disabled in Firefox? The <sql-exercise data-question...> elements aren't visible in Firefox at all.
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I'm not sure what the relationship between channels and users is. I think it's many-to-many and I'm aware of 3 feed types: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<username> https:&
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by bhrgunatha 8y ago
I agree the transcription is awful, but would you say it's unrecognisable?

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