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91.
Is Google Evil? The Great Debate(thenoisychannel.com)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|2 comments
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Fermi’s paradox solved?(arxivblog.com)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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by hhm 18y ago
I think some time ago, Microsoft used to have two different internal versions of Word, for example... the one which was better won, and was the one used by people.
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Developing Your Intuition For Math(betterexplained.com)
13 points by hhm 18y ago|2 comments
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Face Recognition by Eigenfaces(inf.uni-konstanz.de)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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The Soul of The Sims, by Will Wright (donhopkins.com)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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The secret to intellectual productivity(daniel-lemire.com)
3 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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Good research: invent new problems or explain mysteries(daniel-lemire.com)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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Gödel's ontological proof(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by hhm 18y ago|9 comments
100.
by hhm 18y ago
Nope: http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
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My Favorite Strange Number: Ω(scienceblogs.com)
3 points by hhm 18y ago|1 comments
102.
by hhm 18y ago
The game-show version of the Monty Hall problem isn't ambiguous... people even had the chance to see the show before knowing the mathematical problem. I agree there are different ways to state the problem, but the wording doesn't explain wh
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by hhm 18y ago
"Beware of turning hobbies into jobs" Don't most hackers turn their hobbies into jobs? How does that work for you?
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by hhm 18y ago
The correct answer is 2/3 though. Check the Monty Hall problem for the explanation (this kind of problem is well known for having confused famous mathematicians like Erdös himself).
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Living on the edge of academia(drmaciver.com)
45 points by hhm 18y ago|34 comments
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Useless Ivory Towers(thermalnoise.wordpress.com)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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Grabbing attention or building a reputation?(daniel-lemire.com)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
108.
by hhm 18y ago
It has its own crawler, it only uses Yahoo when it can give you good results.
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Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages(michaelnielsen.org)
41 points by hhm 18y ago|2 comments
110.
by hhm 18y ago
You're welcome, enjoy your travel! :)
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by hhm 18y ago
Visit http://palermovalley.com/ (the event is held once a month or two I believe)... it's useful for networking and full of entrepreneurs, developers and builders. The founders of Core, Popego, Sabarasa, etc. can be found there sometimes
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by hhm 18y ago
Perhaps they give users the motivation to submit other interesting links like this one.
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Google Image Search Gets Style(thenoisychannel.com)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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Malbolge: hello world (acooke.org)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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Set Theory and Weather Prediction(xorshammer.wordpress.com)
3 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
116.
by hhm 18y ago
For paying or for receiving payments? You can buy from outside the US with any international credit card, like Visa, whatever your bank account is.
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by hhm 18y ago
Ok, a less elegant one then, but one that works for a reasonably simple reason. f gives 1 to 5, if it gives 5, try again, and so on, until you have a number from 1 to 4. Then, do that mod 2. You have a random binary digit, that's unbiased.
118.
by hhm 18y ago
You're right in that my original reasoning was wrong. Thank you for your comment.
119.
by hhm 18y ago
I like http://thefeelgood.com/
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The Dating Game(rubinsteyn.com)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments

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