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by defaultcompany 6y ago
This looks really interesting. I’ve been doing this separate email for everything for over ten years now just using my own manual setup and I swear by it. Glad to see you have made this whole project open source. Good work and good luck.
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
Yes that's exactly what I thought of seeing this! It was so miserably cold and sleeting the day I went and inside it felt like an oasis. Everyone lying on the floor basking in front of that giant sun.
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
Lost a pitch competition with a $1m prize. Not the same as losing $1m.
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
So true. My father tells the story of when he was a kid and got a job loading bubble gum machines with bubble gum. Apparently they told him he could eat as much bubble gum as he wanted which blew his mind. Of course then after the first we
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
Speaking of Flash and alternatives to CSS there was a whole UI language built to run in the Flash player called Flex which had an amazing layout engine. You could - in code - define your own layouts which could then be used on any component
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
It agrees with my intuition that one bit lost would reduce the values by half. I probably don't understand what is meant by efficiency loss but my point is that a different (theoretical non floating point) encoding would be able to rep
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
"We can see the values are relatively densely clustered near 0 and increasingly sparse the further you move away from the origin. As another example, half of all 32-bit floating point numbers reside in the real interval [-1,1]. "
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
This is cool! Here’s a blog about a similar project I have been working on which uses panoramic images taken very close together to let you move around my parents’ basement: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=69545
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by defaultcompany 6y ago
Kids definitely can grasp this on a very tangible level. I just explained function input and output to my 8yr old and she immediately said "Oh so like food is input and poop is output!" Yes we are all functions!
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by defaultcompany 7y ago
What Is the point of increased testing now that it is so widespread in the community? The message needs to be social distancing even if you are not sick and if you are sick just assume it is coronavirus and self quarantine.
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by defaultcompany 7y ago
This reminds me of a great talk by Bartosz Milewski [1] about the motivation and philosophy behind category theory. He makes the observation that our "monkey brains" are not good at dealing with complexity at all and we only reall
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by defaultcompany 7y ago
Inform is a language for creating text adventure games with an English like syntax. It's very expressive, powerful and highly domain specific. As an example here is the complete source code for a very simple game: "Prototype"