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121.
by hhm 18y ago
Execute f 7 times, add all numbers, call that x. Then you do mod(x,7)+1, and you get a random number between 1 and 7. If the original function was unbiased, this one is going to be unbiased too.
122.
by hhm 18y ago
Check Ramanujan's story please... he could have made use of this kind of scholarship (not in Africa, but anyway).
123.
Netflix: an interesting Machine Learning game, but is it good science?(daniel-lemire.com)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
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Memories of Turbo Pascal version 1.0(blogs.codegear.com)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|1 comments
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A juggler remembers Claude Shannon(www2.bc.edu)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|1 comments
126.
by hhm 18y ago
Yes, I think the answer to the "too much mails" problem is opening a mailing list or forum. It works for medium to big projects, but for small ones I'm not sure it would be enough.
127.
by hhm 18y ago
This one: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Enjoy! It's really amazing
128.
by hhm 18y ago
That already exists! There is a product by NASA that allows you to do that, I don't remember the name (you can see the moon, mars, mercury, etc).
129.
by hhm 18y ago
I'm pretty sure that the singularity is not the fact that it's a point, but that the gravity is so high that it wraps in on itself. i.e. that spacetime has a hole in it. I know Wikipedia isn't a good source for physics, but: "While in a n
130.
by hhm 18y ago
That's a problem for them I guess... we have empirical evidence of black holes. Maybe what's impossible is singularities? Some physicist to correct me?
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CNN's holograms not really holograms(cbc.ca)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|1 comments
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Jeff Han: The inventor behind CNN's election 'Magic Wall'(cnn.com)
9 points by hhm 18y ago|4 comments
133.
by hhm 18y ago
In the comments: "To use the auto-translate feature, you need to have the English subtitles/caption file uploaded to your YouTube video. "
134.
by hhm 18y ago
I think "Digg's HTML" would actually be wrong. HTML is a language, and the secret isn't hidden at the language but at a markup written in such language. Say the language is called X. Then we'd say: Digg's X markup. Why would it be different
135.
by hhm 18y ago
And this is interesting: http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/5225.page "Thoughts on Spore from an ex-Maxis intern."
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The dumbification of Spore(scienceblogs.com)
43 points by hhm 18y ago|27 comments
137.
by hhm 18y ago
Is this supposed to be fun!?
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The Rich Get Richer, Internet Edition(scienceblogs.com)
2 points by hhm 18y ago|1 comments
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How to Write an Informatics Paper(homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
140.
Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra: A free textbook with fascinating applications(randomhacks.net)
97 points by hhm 18y ago|18 comments
141.
Things I wish I’d known when I was younger(lifehack.org)
50 points by hhm 18y ago|21 comments
142.
The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort(blogmaverick.com)
64 points by hhm 18y ago|23 comments
143.
Discovery of a New Particle?(math.columbia.edu)
10 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
144.
by hhm 18y ago
Broadened? Start-ups and hacking are very different categories, and there is very little in the intersection. This site being for start-ups had too much material that wasn't interesting for hackers, and as the main target of the site was ha
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Google Books — More Open Access?(golem.ph.utexas.edu)
1 points by hhm 18y ago|0 comments
146.
by hhm 18y ago
It's fun that I was downmodded for explaining exactly why this problem happens. I used to be a game developer, and believe me, that's the true reason behind the problem.
147.
by hhm 18y ago
Exactly. Also, if you want good games, I used to be a games developer so I could post cool & fun games, but that's not the point of hacker news.
148.
by hhm 18y ago
That's right, but the idea isn't new. There are many physics demos that make even shooting to boxes (or even just seeing them fall) interesting. This game doesn't add anything else to such old idea, excepting maybe having been done in Flash
149.
by hhm 18y ago
This is because people just show a "game over" banner and don't set a death flag or something like that. Then you see that the game is over, but sometimes you can keep moving the ship (I don't know if this happens in this game) or events th
150.
by hhm 18y ago
IMO, a video game that goes to the 1st place on Hacker News' front page has to be clever, not fun. Having this game make a very simple (and typical) use of physics doesn't make it terribly clever.

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