krazydad

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by krazydad 12y ago
Read about Dropbox's crazy code review policies a few articles down... Your job will feel awesome by comparison.
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by krazydad 12y ago
Thank god there's a few dank memes to offset the bitter taste of the mountain of red-tape. Employee morale must be off-the-charts!
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by krazydad 12y ago
Looked at article just to confirm that Perl would be Ron Weasley. Yep. This is why he's my favorite character.
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by krazydad 12y ago
I'd have a much easier time believing that if they didn't work so hard to make them look fake.
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by krazydad 12y ago
Considered harmful... by this one person.
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by krazydad 12y ago
Looking at the graph near the end of the article, I'd be curious to know who (Karpeles or other?) took a family vacation from January 3rd to 14th...
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by krazydad 12y ago
Agreed. Giant cover image with pointless mouse-over effect immediately followed by typo on first word. Ugh.
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by krazydad 12y ago
Seems like you are getting a minor convenience in exchange for risk of major annoyance (when it breaks).
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by krazydad 12y ago
Although she doesn't say so, it appears she is assuming the cost function is normalized (range is 0-1), in this formula: exp((E_old - E_new) / Temp). Is that the case?
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by krazydad 12y ago
For the other clueless readers: MAC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_authentication_code [Please spell out your acronyms the first time, nerds]
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by krazydad 12y ago
Love the bit about the misconception that Mathematics is mainly about utility. I remember reading something about G.H. Hardy (which I can no longer find) in which he said he would get a little bit disappointed if he found that one of his r
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by krazydad 12y ago
The Mandelbrot book was the first one on the topic (published in 1983, revised from books published in 1975 and 1977), and is the least likely to have 'recent information on the topic'. It's also not as readable as some of t
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by krazydad 12y ago
"Alexa, how many porn videos has Billy watched this month?"
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by krazydad 12y ago
I like including a few GOTOs just to piss off the Dijkstra acolytes, one of whom is quite vocal in the thread.
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by krazydad 12y ago
I don't disagree with you, I think. I think the human-generated art result is interesting, but may simply indicate that humans are mirroring (or even accentuating) what they see in the natural world. In other words, the physical comp
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by krazydad 12y ago
There's definitely some interesting things going on with human reasoning in the way different people interpret the result. I originally assumed the images would average to gray, but when I think about it logically, that would be kind
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by krazydad 12y ago
It is perhaps worth pointing out that I observed the same effect in collections of purely synthetic art (such as Fractals). https://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/3794489938/in/set-721... While I don&#x2
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by krazydad 12y ago
Hi, this Jim, the subject of the article. The Atlantic article omits that I'm normalizing the result (otherwise, the histogram is clustered in the middle and you get a dirt-brown color -- the hue is orange, but it's very desatura
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The color of every photo on the internet blended together is orange(theatlantic.com)
55 points by krazydad 12y ago|63 comments
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by krazydad 12y ago
I am relieved that I am not the only one that suspects this may be horse shit. If it's not, then it's extremely poorly presented.
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by krazydad 12y ago
You are indeed correct. Nonetheless, the choice of the exact same fibonacci tile grid, exit, entry holes, and about 98% of the interior walls being identical...
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by krazydad 12y ago
[This is Jim Bumgardner - author of the maze that Kraft copied]. Amusingly, this comes full circle. One of the puzzle varieties on my site is based on Penrose tilings. http://krazydad.com/slitherlink/sfiles/sl_pen
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by krazydad 12y ago
Highly unlikely. The grid design contains about 900 edges which can be set or clear. Their maze differs by 7 edges. Here's a statistics problem for you: What is the likelihood of generating a random 900 bit binary number that diffe
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by krazydad 12y ago
If you'd like a somewhat less vitriolic article that doesn't use derogatory words in the headline, you can go straight to the article this is linking to: https://netzpolitik.org/2014/interview-with-bpjm-leaker
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by krazydad 12y ago
This appears to be an advertorial. Yuck.
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by krazydad 12y ago
...and the reference to rap music.
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by krazydad 12y ago
I've already seen people confusing features touted for the original Swift language (e.g. good for parallelism) as being pertinent to Apple's. Surely, the good folks at Apple must have been aware of this name conflict.
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by krazydad 12y ago
Dee was also doing real science, for example taking measurements of the super nova of 1572 and the comet that appeared 5 years later, and corresponding with Tycho about the same. Along with Tycho, he helped establish that the comet was fur
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by krazydad 12y ago
I started programming in the early 80s, and never used Ada. At the time, Ada had a reputation as "that over-bloated language that people in the defense department have to use." This perhaps underserved reputation is addressed in
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by krazydad 12y ago
Was hoping to read an admonition against excessive snark and bullying in Hacker News comments. Ah well.

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