kremlin

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by kremlin 12y ago
Any pair of consecutive odds both of which are not divisible by 3 surround a multiple of 3
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by kremlin 12y ago
I find the ribbon to be very usable
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by kremlin 12y ago
brilliantly clear explanation
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by kremlin 12y ago
I didn't understand this: "10% of Princeton’s students are computer science majors Far more at MIT 10% of Princeton’s faculty are unlikely to ever be in computer science! Ditto" It's the last two li
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by kremlin 12y ago
I see the value: you get to debug real, working algorithms based on a quantum computer so that once they're available, you already know many of the fundamentals and pitfalls of programming it. I was thinking myself about the problem of
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by kremlin 12y ago
I was also hoping to see the analysis apply both ways to some degree. Rather than simply having a paying company ask you to find the best fit, is it not better to have something akin to a dating service, where you're not just finding t
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by kremlin 12y ago
I'm not in complete understanding of what differentiates a true random number from a non-true one in this instance. I fully understand why algorithmic pseudo-random numbers can be said to be not 'true' random numbers -- if yo
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by kremlin 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by kremlin 12y ago
this is the second time that specific strip was linked in a reply to a comment I made. First time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538726
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by kremlin 12y ago
For me, the next natural question is this: if a brain can be simulated by any turing-complete system with enough memory, and a bunch of crabs can comprise a turing-complete system...can a bunch of crabs arranged properly into trillions of l
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by kremlin 12y ago
This is a question I've wondered myself. I once read a bit about someone using live crabs to perform computations -- a group of crabs behaves deterministically (enough) to make a series of logic gates that can be used for (very slow) c
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by kremlin 12y ago
that's a really interesting idea. It didn't occur to me that that was even a possibility. cool.
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by kremlin 12y ago
Thank you for these. I will definitely check them out.
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Ask HN: How Can I Find a Mentor?
104 points by kremlin 12y ago|49 comments
105.
by kremlin 12y ago
<off topic>5 bottles is really good!</off topic>
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by kremlin 12y ago
Very clever. When I realized why the shakey elements were disappering (not having yet read the text above the game) I smiled.
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by kremlin 13y ago
why would it have to run it in 'real time'? what's the difference between this universe being simulated by a very slow computer in the super-verse, vs being simulated by a very fast computer in the super-verse? for us, I&#x27
108.
by kremlin 13y ago
I was just thinking about trying to write a command line 2048 and then I see this.
109.
by kremlin 13y ago
I have an apple script that syncs the itunes library with another computer on the network. That being said, I think it's usefulness is as limited as you seem to think it is.
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by kremlin 13y ago
Even though I'm fully aware of the 'correct' pronunciations, my preference for "Gee Enn You" and "Nome" is too strong. The standard way of pronouncing those is too cacophonous for me.
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by kremlin 13y ago
it in fact works the way that 'makes very little sense'. There is a good reason, though, and it's in keeping with the 'nth-of-type' selector logic: there is a selector that works the way you think, called nth-last-o
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by kremlin 13y ago
i haven't tested it in actual html/css. I'll do that now. I'll get back to you with my results
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by kremlin 13y ago
I can't tell if this is facetious or if someone out there really thinks that "The new X" is a unique marketing formula that Apple pioneered.
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by kremlin 13y ago
bento:nth-last-child(4) worked for me. It selects the <bento> element that is the 4th child from last. I think the confusion is here: people think that bento:nth-last-child(2) will be the solution because it should select the second-f
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by kremlin 13y ago
That's exactly what I was just thinking I wished existed!
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by kremlin 13y ago
for me, that git for computer scientists link was very clear
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by kremlin 13y ago
Either something wasn't working for me, or the 'branch' function is completely over my head.
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by kremlin 13y ago
Has it occurred to anybody else that this is the perfect way to explain how to visualize > 3 dimensions? Using the same method for going from 3 to 4 in this game, you can go from 4 to 5, 5 to 6, etc. Potentially transformable into a real
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by kremlin 13y ago
It's kinda a pet peeve of mine as well, having to switch between 'proof' meaning a conclusion that logically necessarily follow from premises, to proof meaning "really strong evidence". But, as harshreality was gett
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by kremlin 13y ago
HTML is editable for me, but not Preview -edit HTML is editable, but it doesn't update the Markdown side nor does it update the Preview, so the edits that you do in HTML are apparently just thrown away

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