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by jdleesmiller 9y ago
Most of them are done with the `dot` tool from https://www.graphviz.org/ . A ruby script generates the dot file, e.g. https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jdleesmiller.github.io/blob/... , and then
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The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration(jdlm.info)
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by jdleesmiller 9y ago
Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) | REMOTE | Ops Engineer & Growth Hacker We're hiring for two positions at Overleaf, which is an online LaTeX editor with over 2 million registered users. We help academics collaborate more effectively an
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by jdleesmiller 9y ago
For what it's worth, that's also what I do. But is it optimal? :) The source code is leading the blog posts [1], so I think I already have an answer to that question for games on 2x2 and 3x3 boards using Markov Decision Processes,
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by jdleesmiller 9y ago
That's also a good approach, and indeed much simpler! What I think it doesn't take into account is that you need to have more than just the 2048 tile on the board in order to reach the 2048 tile, because it takes a few moves to me
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by jdleesmiller 9y ago
I'd agree that 2048 is quite forgiving --- you can make some pretty serious errors and still recover to win [1]. I wouldn't say that makes it poorly designed, however; harder isn't always better, and making a game too hard ca
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The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics(jdlm.info)
159 points by jdleesmiller 9y ago|46 comments
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The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics(jdlm.info)
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The Mathematics of 2048: Minimum Moves to Win with Markov Chains(jdlm.info)
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Why merges fail and what can be done about it(blog.jcoglan.com)
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What This Country Needs Is an 18¢ Piece [pdf](cs.uwaterloo.ca)
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Evaluating Compression with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot(jdlm.info)
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Choosing Compression with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot(jdlm.info)
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Compressing Genomes for Fun and Profit with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot(jdlm.info)
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
Glad to hear it helped! (I'm one of the devs at Overleaf.)
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Who pollinates the daffodils? (2011)(honeybeesuite.com)
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Overleaf co-founder here.) As far as I know, we've never lost any user data. We take that very seriously. If you believe you have lost data on Overleaf, please contact our support team via www.overleaf.com/contact and we'll
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Overleaf co-founder here.) Re markdown, we don't officially support it, but it is possible to write markdown in LaTeX: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/using-markdown-in-la... Pretty neat!
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Co-founder of Overleaf here.) Sorry to hear you had a bad experience --- we run a standard install of TeX Live, so that's surprising. If you try Overleaf again, feel free to send your project's link to our support team via www.ov
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Author here.) I'm very pleased to finally receive some feedback on the technical side! I will have to check out Least Trimmed Squares (and maybe other robust regression techniques). For this dataset, I did try to exclude holidays, but
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Author here.) Subsequent comments are correct: I am a male, and the subject is me, hence "him". However, I have no problem using a non-gendered pronoun, so I have changed it to "their" in the article.
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback on the title. I've changed it to "their", which still works fine for me. For the avoidance of doubt, I do say in the article that: > The CTO role is a very diverse one, and I don’t expect that the r
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
Sadly, I didn't specifically track HN / reddit --- it would have been 'clock stopped' :) My feeling is that I read HN less than I used to, but I don't have any data to back that up.
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Author here.) It's great to see my write-up on HN, and I'm glad to see it generating good discussion here. Since several people have asked, I have now made my 'metime' tracking app open source: https://github
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Author here.) The shift to developing on the weekends wasn't really evident in the simple charts that I had --- I only found out about that after doing the detailed analysis, and it required doing some statistics to really pick out th
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
(Author here.) I have now made the source available: https://github.com/jdleesmiller/metime
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
It's also worth noting that markdown in LaTeX is possible: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/using-markdown-in-la...
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
It's hosted on github pages, so I guess you will have to wait for github pages to go down again!
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by jdleesmiller 10y ago
Hi there, thanks for the info about resubmissions. I didn't know it was discouraged. My karma keeps increasing when I resubmit this, so I took that to mean that I should keep doing it. My last submission was with a new title based on f
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How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time: Minute-By-minute Data for a Year(jdlm.info)
2 points by jdleesmiller 10y ago|2 comments

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