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by isp 10y ago
My theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11612261 (I believe Gavin is telling the truth, but was duped by sleight-of-hand.)
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by isp 10y ago
If my hunch is right, I feel quite sorry for Gavin for having being duped. It would have been very convincing. We're not all James Randi!
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by isp 10y ago
My best guess is that Gavin has been duped by a sleight of hand (like a magician would use) by Craig. My best guess, based on what I've read so far, is this: - Gavin supplied his own text for the message. - Craig faked running "sh
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by isp 11y ago
"LED as power generator" on Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/217765
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The mystery of the Zombie RAM (2014)(wp.josh.com)
4 points by isp 11y ago|2 comments
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by isp 11y ago
Obligatory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900224
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GPS Always Overestimates Distances(i-programmer.info)
86 points by isp 11y ago|21 comments
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by isp 11y ago
It's definitely not the same: I think you're missing a "not" in "99.999999% chance of an individual reaching 130". :-)
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Fare Trade: Breaking Down London's Taxi Debate(londonreconnections.com)
1 points by isp 11y ago|0 comments
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by isp 11y ago
Apologies - I think we've been talking at cross purposes. I was referring to the code up-thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10025412 , which (unlike the presentation) uses "elif".
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by isp 11y ago
In Python, "elif" means "else if". At most one of "bright!" or "light!" will print. $ python >>> if True: ... print "First" ... elif True: ... print "Second&quo
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by isp 11y ago
GitHub: https://github.com/daveliepmann/tufte-css
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Tufte CSS(daveliepmann.com)
461 points by isp 11y ago|103 comments
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by isp 11y ago
Full Metal Jacket: - Home: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/FMJ.html - Tutorial: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/tutorials/TOC.html
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Visual Dataflow Implemented in Lisp [pdf](web.onetel.com)
31 points by isp 11y ago|9 comments
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by isp 11y ago
Three parts: - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1996709 - [PATCH 1/3] doc: Update doc about journalling layer - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/97939 - PATCH 2&#x
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Fovea detector (2014)(shadertoy.com)
2 points by isp 11y ago|0 comments
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by isp 11y ago
Examples: https://thewalnut.io/#5 More examples: https://thewalnut.io/simulations/
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Walnut: The value of visualizing algorithms(thewalnut.io)
1 points by isp 11y ago|1 comments
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Harbingers of Failure [pdf](marketing.wharton.upenn.edu)
58 points by isp 11y ago|9 comments
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by isp 11y ago
I'm blown away by this "guided hallucination" technique. It's not a big oversimplification to describe to the layperson as: enter images into neural network; receive as output artwork representing the essence of the imag
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by isp 11y ago
The related post, "Server utilization: Joel on queuing" (2009), includes a useful visualisation: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/01/30/server-utilization-...
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What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)(johndcook.com)
78 points by isp 11y ago|36 comments
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by isp 11y ago
Previous comments (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398650 Also worth a read, "Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster (2014)": http://aadrake.com/command-line-to
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by isp 11y ago
Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582060 I originally saw it on HN, but almost two years ago. Old comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398650
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Don't use Hadoop – your data isn't that big (2013)(chrisstucchio.com)
90 points by isp 11y ago|32 comments
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by isp 11y ago
See also: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
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by isp 11y ago
You might like to try out Mandelbrot Maps. It allows real-time interactive exploration of the relationship between the Mandelbrot set and associated Julia sets. (There is a corresponding Julia set for each point on the Mandelbrot set, and s
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by isp 12y ago
This would fall afoul of the UK regulator for premium rate numbers (PhonepayPlus) http://code.phonepayplus.org.uk/the-avoidance-of-undue-delay... (See also: https://www.xkcd.com/1494/ )
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by isp 12y ago
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2363-1/ - Ubuntu 12.04, bash 4.2-2ubuntu2.3.

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