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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
There's a discussion of a rebuttal to this here- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612952 (Also it's newer and more upvoted but for some reason no longer on the front page?)
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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
Just came here to ask about this too Seems a bit sketchy for the other article to be on front page, but its newer, more-upvoted rebuttal to be removed @dang if you see this, I would love to understand the reason
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The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by kilovoltaire 6y ago|0 comments
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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
Posting this in case anyone else was curious to see the code addressing the "20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower" thing from yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
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Wikimedia patch to return 403 for flower requests(gerrit.wikimedia.org)
3 points by kilovoltaire 6y ago|1 comments
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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
The list of authors doesn't include Michael Nielsen or Andy Matuschak so I guess not. (Aside: I learned so much from Quantum Country!)
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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
Wow yeah agreed. Direct link for convenience: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/euler/noah.html
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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
The "scroll to text fragment" Chrome feature used to make this work seems almost unbelievably hacky to me… I really hope it doesn't become standard https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096
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by kilovoltaire 6y ago
Personally I find this pretty annoying—yellow text can be hard to read, and unexpectedly arriving in the middle of a webpage can be disconcerting.
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Google now highlights search results directly on webpages(theverge.com)
2 points by kilovoltaire 6y ago|2 comments
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
I recently saw someone playing around with i3 and xzoom to make fractals and video feedback, seems fun- https://twitter.com/maxbittker/status/1228241766240768000
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
The Crackbook Revival chrome extension he mentions restarts its timer if you switch tabs, so at least it remains effective despite tabs
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
There is a photo and a diagram in the carousel at the top of the page. (Though I agree it's easy to miss.)
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
If you want to learn more about the quantum search algorithm, I got a lot out of this pretty in-depth essay on how it works- https://quantum.country/search
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
I recently finished https://quantum.country which covers the quantum search algorithm (and which I highly recommend) So I really enjoyed this article (by the 3Blue1Brown guy) since it discusses a clever physical analogue of quan
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Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|1 comments
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Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there(nytimes.com)
188 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|320 comments
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
In case anyone else is wondering what Apple TV article the parent is referencing- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21438152
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
Clickbaity title but I found the content interesting, concerning a growing push for more computer-verified proofs
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Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong(vice.com)
5 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|2 comments
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Rumors hint that Google has accomplished quantum supremacy(sciencenews.org)
8 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|2 comments
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
This is a long video (by one of the creators of Shadertoy) but I learned a ton of interesting stuff from it. It inspired me to write my own simple ray marcher from scratch yesterday without referring back to the video, which was fun and ver
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Shader Deconstruction of Happy Jumping(youtube.com)
1 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|1 comments
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
I've been using this for probably 10 years, couldn't live without it (though I'm sure there are alternatives) It hadn't been updated for 10 years until yesterday!
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Jumpcut – macOS Clipboard Manager(snark.github.io)
4 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|1 comments
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Pokemon2pokemon – Generating Pokemon as Different Elemental Types(rileynwong.com)
1 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|0 comments
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Flappy Bird implemented on the HP7440A pen plotter(github.com)
2 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|0 comments
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
> supercells I think you might mean superlattices - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlattice
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A compiler for little languages in tagged template strings(github.com)
2 points by kilovoltaire 7y ago|0 comments
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by kilovoltaire 7y ago
"Mostly science payloads, mostly NASA. Some commercial." reminded me of "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

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