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by ccvannorman 12y ago
I once read that "black holes orbiting each other follow the exact same mathematics as electrons orbiting protons", but I was unable to find the direct source. I did find another article comparing black holes to elementary particl
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
>>This would be an ineffective way to accomplish that. They'd first have to make a list of all the phones in the target area, and then they'd have to send the lock commands to them, one by one. Phone[] phones = GetPhonesByG
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
My mayor is on this list. I am fuming, and just sent a fairly restrained letter to his office. I'm actually incredibly impressed by how civil I was, considering Comcast is involved.
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
[OP] The e-mail reply from our lawyer: "In theory, the default way of calculating eventually is lower than the alternative method when a company becomes large. Every February we have frantic calls from our clients when they receive the
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Hugs to our lawyers at Perkins Coie are always "free" (they said a bunch of numbers, muttered something about future payments, and it ended with free .. that means free right?) Anyway, I got the impression that by the time lawyer
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We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74
119 points by ccvannorman 12y ago|82 comments
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
I love how after I cofounded a math game company, there seems to be more and more math everywhere I look. "Blue car syndrome" at its finest! For me this article especially rings true with self identity / confidence. Since fou
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
This map sums it up. The US scored 3-5 on the terrorism scale that goes up to :: 191 ::. http://www.nesec.org/images/haz_globe2001.jpg
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Amazon (AWS) can host sites, and you can use a microinstance for free but your address will be xx.xx.xx.xx instead of mycoolapp.com. For AWS you need to do a bit of setup/sysadmin to keep it running, and cost can be high if you don&#
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Why does power corrupt? – LessWrong.com(lesswrong.com)
3 points by ccvannorman 12y ago|0 comments
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Hey, Mathbreakers is DEFINITELY interested. I've been talking about the need for this for a while. Perks: Work for a revolutionary math video game startup! :-] Send me a note at charlie@mathbreakers.com if you're still available.
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Love and Math - Edward Frenkel A very powerful book, both for its insights into incredible symmetries across all fields of mathematics (touching on QM and fields), and for the appeal to a positive and engaging attitude towards an incredibly
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
We posted about our Kickstarter earlier ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7866304 ) and some commenters mentioned our math is very limited (addition and multiplication). Here we explain how our world can do so much more
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Show HN: Mathbreakers Labs(medium.com)
4 points by ccvannorman 12y ago|1 comments
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Sweet! Reminds me of https://medium.com/@mathbreakers/turing-trains-5e203076b891 and http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/ :-] Are you thinking of making more math-related games?
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Celebrating Tau Day with Radian Rainbows(medium.com)
2 points by ccvannorman 12y ago|0 comments
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
[paraphrased] "if you took 14 minutes to read the report and were over the age of 50, you were clearly not taking your work seriously and needed an intervention -- 16 minutes, and you were being too analytical and black-flagged as an a
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Show HN: Mathbreakers does "Set Theory in a Suitcase"(medium.com)
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
I showed the playable demo to a 9 year old student of mine and he loved it! He refused to stop playing until he could get the train to get to the goal.
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
I can't find the article but somewhere I read that a boy was intentionally never told what "color" the sky was. He could see color normally but when asked what color the sky was, he said "Clear."
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
As a game developer (mathbreakers.com) we recognized this was something we could pay attention to, and from the start we tailored the game to appeal to girls including female characters. Truthfully it was also a good business move, as the q
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
The Island of Dr. Brain was a lot like that for me. Although we've heard tons of comments from kids like, "I loved this game even though I knew I was doing math the whole time". :-] -Charlie, co-founder
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
You make a good argument. As a co-founder, my original vision was to make a 3-D math playground, pure and simple; to visualize math concepts on multiple levels working together, because I know there is a lot of interplay between things like
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Indeed! One of our supporters recommended using "zero" to kill addition monsters, and "1" to kill multiplication monsters, representing the different identities of fundamental operations. We don't have any "mul
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
Hi, Charlie here, co-founder of Mathbreakers (not the OP tho). This game really is different; there are no worksheet style problems (NumberMunchers et al.) Our whole idea is to treat math and numbers like toys that fit together, so you can
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by ccvannorman 12y ago
"Actually, this happens all time here in Brazil. But our problem right now is exactly because people are beating thieves near to death. A good solution is one that would fix both cases." Just in case some of you here were losing f
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by ccvannorman 13y ago
Maybe your problem is you haven't yet designed a life to fit your odd sleeping habits. :-)
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by ccvannorman 13y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this doesn't look credible at all. Correlation vs causation is not mentioned; isn't it a big deal that "[depressed/family stressed/chemically imbalanced] people more prone to bad
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by ccvannorman 13y ago
Can you mirror/embed the facebook discussion somewhere on your site? this would increase your SEO if nothing else..