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HN was down(twitter.com)
1 points by fela 11y ago|0 comments
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Instead of elections, let's use lotteries(aeon.co)
10 points by fela 11y ago|8 comments
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by fela 12y ago
https://www.hackerrank.com/ has a AI/Machine Learning section
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What happens when you try to sign up the world(medium.com)
1 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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Vulnerability in Schannel Could Allow Remote Code Execution(technet.microsoft.com)
1 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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Winshock(adi.is)
3 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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by fela 12y ago
looking at google images results [1] it seems like most paintings get it right, although it might be a biased sample update: searching for "running cartoon" the number of wrong poses increases significantly(I guess unsurprisingly)
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The Fail of the SDF Distribution – Explanation and Experiment(stellartalk.org)
1 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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by fela 12y ago
Or, rephrasing it a little "we put much more energy and resources into what is not working well and can be improved or could be dangerous then into what is already good", which sounds a lot less surprising.
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by fela 12y ago
say the pot contains 20, and you pay 80, you will have 80% chance of winning 18 in addition to your 80 and 20% chance of losing everything, if you do this many times you will still on average lose
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by fela 12y ago
I think giving the margin to a charity would be a great idea. I was thinking of implementing a stellar charity lottery, but you have been faster it seems :) As an added benefit people might be more likely to play if they know they are doing
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by fela 12y ago
play again :P or give it to a charity, I think there are a few that have a stellar account, for example miri
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by fela 12y ago
The expected amount is always 98% percent of what you put in, so the optimal strategy is to not play at all :) It depends what you are optimizing for. In most cases playing multiple times will make you win very slightly less in the median c
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by fela 12y ago
done
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by fela 12y ago
Something weird seems to be going on: at first I didn't get any compensation for making my first transaction, then I got 1000 STR from StellarFoundation 34 times. Now my account has 39000 STR in it...
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by fela 12y ago
received and transferred 2000 back :) edit: didn't get the 1000 bonus yet though, does that only work if I send exactly 1000? edit 2: I got the bonus now. 34 times. I've 39000 STR total now :O
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by fela 12y ago
first to send me 1000 gets 2000 back ;) username: fela
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by fela 12y ago
In which case can you define what an error interval on a probability estimate means? :) I think probabilities can either be well calibrated or not. (Which then of course begs the question of how you define being well calibrated for probabil
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by fela 12y ago
I agree that having constrains makes the problem simpler to think about, which as a programmer/engineer is great. It makes the problem look more like a puzzle. However the truth is that constrains can be broken as long as you realize t
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by fela 12y ago
This could be simple case of regression to the mean, too.
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Ask HN(news.ycombinator.com)
5 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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by fela 12y ago
This and the linked "you can't unsee article" are great example of how our perception is very far from a direct representation of the world, and instead is the end result of a complex processing happening inside our brain. An
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FIA Formula E Championship(fiaformulae.com)
1 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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Ruby Warrior(bloc.io)
1 points by fela 12y ago|2 comments
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Ambronite – Real Food Drinkable Supermeal(ambronite.com)
2 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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Ggplot for python tutorial(blog.yhathq.com)
3 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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Certificate revocation checking in browsers is "useless," crypto guru warns(arstechnica.com)
2 points by fela 12y ago|0 comments
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Dutch, British governments pay to keep Windows XP alive(arstechnica.com)
1 points by fela 13y ago|0 comments
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by fela 13y ago
For a more forgiving game that does not make you loose at the first mistake try out the old version http://connecteverything.herokuapp.com/ The (not terribly good) source code is on github: https://github.com&#x2
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Connect Everything, a HTML5 logic game(connecteverything2.herokuapp.com)
2 points by fela 13y ago|2 comments

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