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by fgimenez 18y ago
Was there a specific reason this story got reposted to the front page?
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by fgimenez 18y ago
What's the general way to draw these charts in javascript? SVG, Canvas, VML?
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by fgimenez 18y ago
It's not tabloid junk if it's a famous mathematician?
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Half of me wants this to be successful because it's such a great idea. The other half hopes it crashes and burns simply because I don't need another hacker news to eat away my time.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
More info: The article is an introduction to Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP's). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_problem A very rudimentary demonstration of this: http://aispace.org/constraint/sample2.html Nor
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Definitely agree with apprenticeship. I've learned more through a couple hours of pair programming with an experienced coder than I did at the university. This isn't to say university is bad. Data structures, algorithms, etc.. should all co
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by fgimenez 18y ago
You forgot empanadas :)
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by fgimenez 18y ago
>The distinction between "biz" and "people" doesn't make sense The business doesn't necessarily need to be based out of California, which means that money doesn't necessarily stay in California. Also, while that business can reinvest
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Many would actually argue that prop 13 destroyed California. To understand this, we need a quick refresher California taxes. To simplify things, there are three main types of tax in California: 1) State Income Tax. This goes to the actual s
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by fgimenez 18y ago
I wonder where a game like Myst, where nothing is easy to figure out, would fall under this spectrum of computer games. I remember spending hours with friends trying to solve the logic puzzles and still believe it was one of the best games
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by fgimenez 18y ago
So you'd rather sort by variance? I don't see why (outside of security issues) we can't just define our own sorting functions for a site.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
On a related note, the Rabin-Miller primality test is needed just to find the primes for RSA to work.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
My brother had an issue where he had finished a programming assignment early. Some other people found out and asked for help. Being the good-natured (totally naive) freshman he was, he sat down and started to explain his own code to them. S
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by fgimenez 18y ago
That talk was absolutely amazing. It was incredibly inspiring.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Why don't you just check if the email ends with .edu? Edu domain names are restricted to accredited post-secondary institution, handled by educase. http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Consider my upmod as a research grant. Please report results.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Ditto! Soda Hall is my home.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
I haven't seen the app, but a really good fog/water maker is Perlin Noise: http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm There is a faster implementation of it, as perlin noise is pretty expensive, that get's used a lot in ga
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by fgimenez 18y ago
1-800-goog-411 ( http://www.google.com/goog411/ ) Basically a 411 service with automatic speech recognition. Not necessarily a web search, but they are far along this track.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
How is it that the average verbal scores are so much lower than math? A math major averages 714 on quantitative whereas an English Lit major averages 573. Is the math that much easier, or do we not speek so goode nemore?
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Remember an athlete's injury is usually not life threatening. A broken leg is significantly different from pancreatic cancer.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Thanks, that explains a lot for me. I've slowly come to realize this is my problem, and have been surrounding myself with "finishers". It's akin to running a race, where you are always told to run through the finish, but once you see it, th
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by fgimenez 18y ago
When I was writing my first paper, I legitimately tried to write it so anybody could understand. My test was to have my girlfriend read it and tell me what she thought it was about (not that my girlfriend isn't smart, but she had absolutely
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Philip Glass is the only music I can listen to. I'm guessing his minimalist music keeps me on a rhythm without distraction.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
The website is not that exciting, but the tutorial videos are amazing. I suggest checking out the alpha slider tutorial. http://www.iphonedevcentral.org/
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Wow, Kalman Filters are awesome. Time to dig deeper into the wikipedia rabbit hole!
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by fgimenez 18y ago
That was an amazing hack if you didn't have the ability to use server side includes with your crappy web host. I can still remember the pain of writing document.write hundreds of times.
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Life is like being a reinforcement agent in a large world. We just need to raise our epsilon on our epsilon-greedy decision processes if we hope to learn from risk. on a related note: AI is damn cool
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Noble Causes: -Be a high school teacher for math and computer science (a la lockhart's lament) -Start some form of programmers without borders to see how tech can help those in 3rd world nations -Write as much free medical software as possi
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by fgimenez 18y ago
Wow, that definitely sounds like something I'll be doing. Unfortunately, I've got 2 midterms on the Thursday afterwards, so I'll have to pass on this Wednesday. Thanks for the heads-up though. Hope to meet you there.

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