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by drx 16y ago
If you can find 20 questions so that each question roughly halves the sample size depending on the answer, you can halve a big set of people 20 times, thus yielding a set of size 2^20 = 1 048 576 times smaller than the original. So if you t
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by drx 16y ago
You could scribble using a pen with ink that doesn't dissolve in water but dissolves in e.g. alcohol. Might be a bother, but could be better than nothing. I'm gonna try this.
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by drx 16y ago
Ah, I missed that, my bad.
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by drx 16y ago
The article asks the question "what does this code do" but never reveals the answer. The first algorithm is fast exponentiation.
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by drx 16y ago
Great. I'm pretty much an omnivore when it comes to music... I'll listen to anything I like; there's hip-hop, movie/game scores, pop, rock, etc. in my playlists.
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by drx 16y ago
Indeed. Can you list yours that I haven't listed already? One can never have enough. Edit: also, yeah. I thought my combo was pretty rare.
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by drx 16y ago
* Bach, Mozart, Beethoven (get a complete works so it doesn't bore you after a while. There are many gems which are not known by the general public, like the famous BWV 565, etc.) * Chiptunes (I recommend maktone and dubmood) * Daft Punk, R
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by drx 16y ago
That's the way I have set up my websites a few years ago. Never seen a single spam comment since then. Of course, a determined spammer will overcome these hurdles. But most spam bots don't bother.
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by drx 16y ago
Some people, myself included, are wary of Facebook and don't have an account there, for various reasons. Privacy erosion, nasty tactics, spam are among them. Now I'm not saying these issues are present in Facebook Connect, but I don't have
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by drx 16y ago
That was very open, which you don't see all that often.
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by drx 16y ago
Please let me know when you figure this out, I too am interested in this. My email is in my profile.
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by drx 16y ago
This only applies to individuals. Business accounts don't have this option.
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by drx 16y ago
This is incredibly useful information, thank you for posting it. In emergency situations (like drowning) I tend to try to rescue people who might be in danger (as long as it's safe, of course). This I did not know and it could have had dire
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by drx 16y ago
A guy I know has a form of dyslexia (though I'm not sure this is the correct word) that makes him initially unaware (for a few seconds) of the difference between E and ∃ (and other vertically mirrored characters) Imagine the horror of graph
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by drx 16y ago
I have no opinion either way, since the field seems to be dominated by empirical "evidence" and cranks, but this guy's entire argument rests on this sentence: "One of the myths of "Uberman sleep schedule" is that it makes it possible to ent
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by drx 16y ago
If you're asking how to set up a Delaware company as a non-US resident without ever stepping on US soil, then yes, it's possible. You can do that via an agent. You can find one by googling 'Delaware Inc' or 'Delaware LLC' or by looking at t
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by drx 16y ago
It might be possible to connect the brain implant to the brain in a similar way that the eyes are connected to it, thus creating an additional input instead of using an existing one. Brains seem to have an uncanny ability to adapt to new in
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by drx 16y ago
Didn't the reddit guys originally want to develop an app like that?
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by drx 16y ago
Title case is so inconvenient. For a few seconds I was trying to grasp how Steam, Kickstarter and Diaspora can possibly connected.
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by drx 16y ago
The reason I subconsciously did it was that natural numbers have an inherent structure to them. You can describe all natural numbers using only the objects 0 and succ, where succ = (+ 1). An interesting fact is that this is sufficient to ex
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by drx 16y ago
Part of the beauty in the original equation is that it contains every object thought to be elemental in arithmetic and moreover, it contains every one of them exactly once. It contains 0, 1, +, , ^, which are sufficient to express all of e
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by drx 16y ago
I can't resist not showing this clever derivation of the e Maclaurin series. I referenced the fact that e^x = 1 + x/1 + x^2/(2!) + x^3/(3!) + ... Now, one of the many equivalent definitions of e is that it is the only real number for which
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by drx 16y ago
It is actually far from just a convention. It has everything to do with the Taylor series of the functions e^x, sin x and cos x. e^x = 1 + x/1 + x^2/(2!) + x^3/(3!) + ... If you substitute ix for x, you get: e^{ix} = 1 + ix/1 + (ix)^2/(2!)