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811.
Hashlife(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jmount 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 12y ago
More good ideas in this direction: Hashlife http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
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by jmount 12y ago
"And he will tell you quite honestly that some distasteful aspects exist because C++ was a language created to be used (backwards compatibility is a feature, adding keywords/syntax only when necessary, etc)" Even that line re
814.
by jmount 12y ago
I agree. A large count at best proves non-independence (or contamination). It really doesn't address if the contamination is a guilty party, a smear campaign or self-correlating accusations. The original article gave too much creden
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by jmount 12y ago
Not to be disrespectful- but I want to learn more about C++ from anybody but Stroustrup. His writing (to me at least) always has the aspect of "nothing is wrong, and every compromise was picked correctly." I'd much rather r
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The Geometry of Classifiers(win-vector.com)
31 points by jmount 12y ago|0 comments
817.
by jmount 12y ago
Online marketing/advertising is funny. You'd think once bots could get up to 20% fraud they could be scaled up a bit more and get to 99.9% fraud (the old "machines won't be exactly as smart as people argument", peo
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by jmount 12y ago
Wow. Interpreting this under the "hello world is often a demonstration of a particular point" rubric ( http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2008/02/hello-world-an-instan... ) it looks like Petzoid was tr
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Some Comments on “Do We Need Hundreds of Classifiers”(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 12y ago
To my mind some of R's plusses are data frames and the ability to indicate missing values in vectors of any type. Some of the weird stuff is the lazy evaluation of arguments, the ability to know the names of variables bound to functio
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by jmount 12y ago
Sorry I was unclear. 32 bits architecture can mean a lot of different things (buss sizes, address word sizes, and so on). Mostly I am done with small pointers (having to use segments to address all of your memory, or not being able to mem
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by jmount 12y ago
No, it isn't. Some books that would continue to sell have great trouble due to the publisher not supplying copies for a period. Lovasz's "Combinatorial Problems and Exercises" was one such book which North Holland esse
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by jmount 12y ago
Nifty example. Billionaires, trillion dollar budges, billion-view celebrities, fast CPUs, and large memories: all reasons I am done with 32 bit architectures (old article of mine, but only on large memories http://www.win-vector
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by jmount 12y ago
Incorrect title. "Nature places all article in flakey peephole viewer."
825.
The joy of calculation(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 12y ago|0 comments
826.
by jmount 12y ago
The feedback given look relevant to me (from the article): "Your version was rejected because of the following problems: 1) Extending the prototype of native objects like Object, Array and String is not allowed because it can cause com
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by jmount 12y ago
Or even worse: one of the "cosmic censorship" hypothesis turns out to be correct. In such case if you ask the demon, you might not live to the next day (or if you form the intent to ask the demon, you may not make it even that fa
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by jmount 12y ago
I strongly agree with you. It looks like the effect is more "successful people get fans and apologists."
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Ask HN: “Join ex-Googler team at *”
12 points by jmount 12y ago|4 comments
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by jmount 12y ago
Ah, that is a fair point.
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Ask HN: In Apple OS X why won't the delete key delete files selected in Finder?
2 points by jmount 12y ago|3 comments
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Design, Problem Solving, and Good Taste(ninazumel.com)
2 points by jmount 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 12y ago
I guess I would say if you are truly curious about physics read about conservation of momentum, Noether's theorem, and things like that. You get really neat things like: if you assume general relativity is position invariant then you
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by jmount 12y ago
Jeeze, really HackerNews/BoingBoong news are not good science sources. This "reaction-less" drive is simple variation of the "Dean drive" (another "space thruster" that only works if it is on a kitchen fl
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by jmount 12y ago
Yah- I got the impression they are running white or pink noise through a bunch of filters and looking to see if there is any spectrum remaining at the perfect balance condition that represents a successful bin-packing. The idea is they thu
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by jmount 12y ago
At best this is using the fact that computation of the real numbers is very powerful (and then pretending their electrical circuits at hand actually work over the real numbers). The point is none of our constructible devices implement ideal
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by jmount 12y ago
C has potentially ambiguous association on nested "else"s. The habit of too many braces is a safety.
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by jmount 12y ago
They pretty much had a weight target (not leaving things up to chance). Every pound of equipment you don't take back is another pound of moon rock you could take back.
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by jmount 12y ago
Well from the Libre Office site: "The BSA is currently broken. Please use https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffi... instead. We are sorry for the inconvenience." And then "Bugzilla need
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by jmount 12y ago
Yah, sorry about that. It looked okay in my authoring tool, but it was wrong (fixed now).

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