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Statistical significance does not mean what you think(wmbriggs.com)
2 points by csl 15y ago|0 comments
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What distribution do you get from this broken random shuffle?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by csl 15y ago|0 comments
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Accidental algorithms(americanscientist.org)
8 points by csl 15y ago|0 comments
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Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal (1979; PDF)(cs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by csl 15y ago|0 comments
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JMC's Elephant 2k language (resubmission)(www-formal.stanford.edu)
3 points by csl 15y ago|0 comments
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The psychology of learning(dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
4 points by csl 15y ago|0 comments
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by csl 15y ago
Off-topic; how did you make the screencast?
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by csl 16y ago
Here is a nice paper on how to prune the execution tree when using amb : Non-deterministic lisp with dependency-directed backtracking ; http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-011.pdf I've not played much with amb or Prolog, but i
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by csl 16y ago
Is this specific to France, or a case of the EU data retention directive? (Which basically requires storing all calls you make, your position, your surfing history and email headers) More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunicati
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by csl 16y ago
The man behind the montage has written an interesting essay about it, providing background information on the project. The images seem to be real. http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-...
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by csl 16y ago
Background information: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Autism_Spectr...
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Take the Autism Quotient Test(wired.com)
15 points by csl 16y ago|30 comments
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by csl 16y ago
Two programming books that I actually did read cover to cover was: - Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual . Lively presentation of standard algorithms, with some very fun war stories thrown in. I found it a lighter read than CLRS and TAOCP (
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Can't Change Your Leader? Change How You Follow(blogs.hbr.org)
15 points by csl 16y ago|3 comments
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by csl 16y ago
Those metal detectors 6 feet from the light post? This system seems to ensure that entire columns of cars can flow nicely through several intersections.
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by csl 16y ago
The Turing Omnibus leisurely covers a broad range of important and often forgotten topics. It's a great book. It will give you a good overview of CS, and then you can go deep at your choosing with other books. I loved the first chapters in
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by csl 16y ago
Agreed. I think you could substitute a degree if you work through most books required for it . After dropping out of mathematics, CS and physics studies (big mistake there), I've been working as a programmer for 10 years. But I routine
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by csl 16y ago
I can understand this if I invest in something like an index fund, which is updated regularly to reflect a particular stock market. But it doesn't help if I invest in companies X, Y and Z. They might go bankrupt, in which I will lose my m
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The Desiderata --- nice words to remember(mwkworks.com)
2 points by csl 16y ago|0 comments
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by csl 16y ago
It's even more -- you can do really cool queries with the data. E.g., ask for all people linked less than three degrees of separation from PG and whose ages are between 20 and 40 (as a rather lame example). I do hope Google will do somethi
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by csl 16y ago
This will happen: http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/17166/757587-yowch1_sup... (for some reason, I immediately thought about Prince of Persia)
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by csl 16y ago
Guess it's ok as long as you need to be registered. Great site, by the way!
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by csl 16y ago
If you need to know this in the future, check out BuiltWith: http://builtwith.com/hackernewsers.com
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by csl 16y ago
Suggestion: Can you please require (re)CAPTCHA or similar when sending mail to people?
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by csl 16y ago
You're lucky! I'll never get the same innate ability for problem solving, but what I'm hoping is that it's actually possible to train my brain towards such spontaneity. E.g., by spending time to solve a lot of challenging puzzles over a
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by csl 16y ago
I think ITA's job screening process is quite nice: Post an interesting puzzle and ask anyone to submit answers. Spend as much time on it as you wish. Their puzzle archive: http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html?catid...
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by csl 16y ago
> and find IRC a little cold. Are there any HN IRC channels? It'd be great to actually get to know some HN people.
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by csl 16y ago
Bought one about a month ago in France. Use it for browsing everywhere a laptop isn't comfortable (while eating breakfast, while cooking, in bed, etc). I absolutely love it! It dawned on me that in the near future, people won't buy laptop
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by csl 18y ago
Ok, just to limit my embarrassment, I've implemented an alternative solution -- though not as good as the others. First convert rand5() to rand2(). The LSB from rand5() has a uniform distribution for the integers 0--3: int rand2()
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by csl 18y ago
No -- I get zero hits for 4 and 7 with this approach.

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