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by janzer 16y ago
How can this be called the first international corewar contest? I was participating in corewar contests in the early '90s that were certainly international. Yes, I can remember when the International Core War Society (ICWS) was active and t
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Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest(zdnet.com)
176 points by janzer 16y ago|71 comments
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by janzer 16y ago
Thanks to all the people that participated and I hope you had fun creating your bot.
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Google AI contest results released(ai-contest.com)
2 points by janzer 16y ago|1 comments
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by janzer 16y ago
http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/ By Cory Doctorow
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by janzer 16y ago
What the...? Is he serious? "Walled-gardens are the way of the past. One of the reasons Apple is killing it is they make it easy for every man, woman, and yes, child, to create an app and offer it through their store for their phones. Why
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by janzer 16y ago
ahh, thanks.
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by janzer 16y ago
I don't see anything in there that would indicate the readers were tampered at the factory. Am I missing it or is there another source that says this?
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by janzer 16y ago
PEP 444 (web3) is being worked on, but will be a fairly significant protocol change/upgrade. In the interest if getting something quickly, the original WSGI PEP 333 author decided to just make the minor updates required to make it python 3
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by janzer 16y ago
No video of it in action yet? That's always the part I look for in 3d printer articles.
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by janzer 16y ago
According to the article because you will quickly just have your cheaper tank and dead jellyfish.
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by janzer 16y ago
Also note that the author of the article is also the author of D.
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Free As In Lawsuit(artima.com)
2 points by janzer 16y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 16y ago
Page with full details on the charity event http://www.toptiertactics.com/golden-charity/ Also it has already raised over $13k
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Golden Wrench Destruction for Charity(teamfortress.com)
1 points by janzer 16y ago|1 comments
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by janzer 16y ago
"...Corning dug out Chemcor from its database, tweaked it for manufacturing in LCD tanks, and renamed it Gorilla." My guess is that "tweaking" is covered by new patents, although anyone should be able to produce the original Chemcor now.
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Women in computing: first, get the problem right(esr.ibiblio.org)
9 points by janzer 16y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 16y ago
I'm not directly involved at all. But what comes to my mind is a loop exit condition or more accurately, and by definition I suppose, any trace exit.
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by janzer 16y ago
So I don't understand tweet and I go to dictionary.com to find out what they're talking about and I get: noun 1. a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird. verb (used without object) 2. to make such a sound. Leaves me with still no
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by janzer 16y ago
For you or anyone else that dislikes the memorization parts of Chess, you may find Arimaa ( http://arimaa.com/ ) interesting. Personally I also like it better than chess because of the somewhat more simple/elegant rules while still leaving
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Using CPython extension modules with PyPy natively(morepypy.blogspot.com)
3 points by janzer 17y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 17y ago
To clarify a little, this patch does not eliminate the GIL it just schedules the next thread to acquire the GIL using the BFS scheduling algorithm. Also and perhaps more importantly this has not been incorporated into any version of python.
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by janzer 17y ago
I think Miquel Torres did an excellent job putting this site together. For anyone that is interested the code for the site can be found at http://github.com/tobami/codespeed
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by janzer 17y ago
I'm not sure why you think pypy is slower than cpython "at pretty much everything" after looking at this site. Out of the 21 benchmarks given, 10 are 2x or more faster than cpython, 10 are between 2x faster and 2x slower and only 1 is more
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by janzer 17y ago
(1) Calling their security/cryptography "military grade" should be a warning signal. (2) SSL/TLS isn't inferior, it's the wrong tool for the job. Using the wrong tool in encryption almost always means opening up unnecessary attacks. (3) Whe
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by janzer 17y ago
Disclaimer I've neither used nor looked at the source for either Tarsnap or Zumodrive, all the following is based on the public statements I've read. A major point of all this is that you don't have to break TLS/SSL to get the unencrypted d
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by janzer 17y ago
Ahh, but there's plenty of room at the bottom.
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by janzer 17y ago
Here is a brief overview and the source code from my 5th place entry. http://janzert.com/tron/
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by janzer 17y ago
"== - 'values are equal' - in this case, are these two numbers equal? The IEEE spec would say no." "=== - ...are both the values and types..." If the values are not equal, how can both the values and types be? Looking at the ECMAScript 5 st
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by janzer 17y ago
Any idea what size grids the contest is actually using or at least within what order of magnitude? The graphic used seems to show a square grid with a size of around 15-20 on a side.

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