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by jonp 16y ago
Since The Sheep Market http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ paid people on Mechanical Turk 2c each for their sheep drawings I guess this means he's got nearly $16,000 of free labour so far.
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by jonp 16y ago
This ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuths_up-arrow_notation#Introd... ) describes how it can be extended without limit. And there's are numerical examples at the end of that section demonstrating how. And this ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by jonp 16y ago
Tetration is used to express Graham's number ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahams_number ) which appeared in the Guinness book of records as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof.
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by jonp 16y ago
There's currently a 3 hours old story with 13 points in position 27; ie near the bottom of the front page.
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Ever wonder how those plastic bag footballs are made?(afrigadget.com)
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The centuries-old struggle to play in tune(slate.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
I'm pleased he thinks that bees will survive.
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How the 1910 US census was done(sundaymagazine.org)
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by jonp 16y ago
Even 80 wasn't that exceptional. In 1910 there were over 200,000 people in England & Wales aged over 80; about 1 in 170 of the population. (Calculations based on data from http://www.mortality.org/ )
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How marginal tax rates changed boxing(marginalrevolution.com)
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by jonp 16y ago
That's really neat. I hit the same problem of crossing edges when doing this a while ago (in Python rather than JavaScript). Rather than trying to get everything done automatically by the code I added the ability to click and drag a point.
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by jonp 16y ago
Help my understanding: is this really an example of game theory? I thought that game theory was about making decisions in which your success depends on the choices of others. In the original secretary/dowry problem the values of your choice
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Sunday Magazine: The most interesting articles from 100 years ago this weekend(sundaymagazine.org)
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by jonp 17y ago
Or P=0.
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by jonp 17y ago
The author's first two articles on Dubai: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N16/dubai.html http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N17/dubai.html
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by jonp 17y ago
Could someone explain what "recess on Thursday (yes, like elementary school)" means? Thanks.
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The size of the called strike zone varies with the count(hardballtimes.com)
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David Mamet's rules of drama(movieline.com)
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The science of climate change(economist.com)
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by jonp 17y ago
29021960 appears starting at digit 713. Wikipedia lists Khaled, Algerian raï musician; Richard Ramirez, American serial killer; Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker as being born on 29 February 1960. Oddly searching for 29021960 does
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Science is unintuitive(ibbly.com)
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Large Numbers(mrob.com)
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The war on baby girls: Gendercide(economist.com)
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by jonp 17y ago
The URL of the equation image contains the equation in TeX.
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Novel spiral visualization/animation of piano music(youtube.com)
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The Fallacy of Gray(lesswrong.com)
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by jonp 17y ago
The page http://www.benjoffe.com/holdem_files/heuristic.html is running the two-player case. It seems to be using a Javascript hill-climbing algorithm: pick a scoring function which measures how good the solution is, then start from a ran
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Ice cold decks (dealer wins no matter how the deck is cut)(benjoffe.com)
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AllRGB: images with one pixel for every RGB-color(allrgb.com)
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Reporters don't compare jobs to population growth(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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