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by jonp 16y ago
I like it. One suggestion: on the "name your site" page tell people the rules for site names. I first tried a number and got told it had to start with a letter. Then after my second attempt I was told it had to be at least 6 letters. Third
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Hedge-Fund Man Finds Inner Lion in Outer Space: Michael Lewis(businessweek.com)
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Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?(timharford.com)
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What you've missed if you don't read SundayMagazine.org(ironicsans.com)
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About My Job: The Businessman(andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
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Misadventures in urban planning (cities in the shape of animals)(chrisblattman.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
And me. I'm running a 10k race starting at 10am.
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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.(matt.might.net)
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by jonp 16y ago
People regret things they didn't do more than things they did.
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by jonp 16y ago
I can't tell if we're disagreeing or just at cross purposes. In the code above the random number is uniform(0,1), the standard random number in most languages. So each individual death is Bernouilli, although you don't need to know the word
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by jonp 16y ago
I would. I've sent you an email.
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by jonp 16y ago
I was thinking that they probably just simulated each individual patient by picking a random number and seeing if it's less than the death rate. So the number of deaths in a hospital is just sum([random()<deathRate for i in range(nu
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by jonp 16y ago
I don't think there's anything particularly topical about death rates here in the UK right now. The author together with Michael Dilnot presented a radio show "More or Less" which covered lots of topics of this sort, showing how maths can a
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by jonp 16y ago
PG's "The Power of the Marginal" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html ).
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Can chance make you a killer?(bbc.co.uk)
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The Moral Naturalists(nytimes.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
Clickable links: Sudoku solver: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html Spelling corrector: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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Ask HN: Recommend some "essays with code" like Norvig's sudoku solver
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by jonp 16y ago
One book I'd recommend is "1089 and all that" ( http://www.amazon.com/1089-All-That-Journey-Mathematics/dp/0... ). I've bought copies for friends and family whose maths backgrounds range from school to degree level and they've all enjoyed i
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by jonp 16y ago
I was intrigued by the reference to "Ovid’s frank advice on meeting women at the theater". This seems to refer to the "Ars Amatoria" which is an interesting read in its own right. Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatori
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Coin toss by lottery draw(ibbly.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
If I were 25 years younger I'd like to be introduced to Processing ( http://processing.org/ ). I say that because my interest in programming developed because I wanted to know how how to draw interesting patterns on a screen; and I liked th
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Yeah well you can prove anything with science(badscience.net)
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How much do Somali pirates earn?(marginalrevolution.com)
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UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges(arstechnica.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
He's a colleague of Kevin Warwick, someone who a former tutor of mine described as "a buffoon with a good line in hoodwinking the media into thinking that what he is doing is cutting-edge science". ( http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/n
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Motion induced blindness (optical illusion)(msf-usa.org)
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by jonp 16y ago
Croquet. When played properly/competitively it's very different to the casual backyard game. To play well requires a nice mix of physical skill with complex tactics and decision-making. A disproportionate number of serious players are scien
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If politicians were mathematicians(gowers.wordpress.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
"Despite its satirical nature, some of the things that have featured in Loony manifestos have become law, such as being able to vote at 18, "passports for pets", and all-day pub openings." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Rav

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