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by lkozma 17y ago
Comments like these are why I like news.YC.
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by lkozma 17y ago
What does this mean in this particular situation ?
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by lkozma 17y ago
Something that might help would be to have the grids in some sort of canonical form: as swapping rows and columns doesn't change the score, for every configuration there is a reordering such that the whole grid value is minimal (i.e. if we
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by lkozma 17y ago
34 here (after some tweaks): 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 0 1 1 3 3 0 1 2 0 1 2 3 3 0 2 2 3 0 1 2 2 3 0 0 0 3 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 3 3 2 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 2 1 0 3 0 1 1 3 2 3 1 2 1 1 3 3 0 0 2 1 1 3 2 0 3 0 1 3 0 1 2 3 2
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by lkozma 17y ago
Good point, I'll add it next.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Thanks, good point, implemented it that way now.
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by lkozma 17y ago
ah, you meant that, ok :) Yeah, that was intentional :)
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by lkozma 17y ago
Notice however, that it's not for well known remakes, more for not-so-obvious similarities.
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by lkozma 17y ago
It's the submit button on the bottom of the page.
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by lkozma 17y ago
which one is the false dichotomy ? :)
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Ask YC: Review my webapp coded in the past few days(soundsabitlike.com)
12 points by lkozma 17y ago|16 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
Yeah, more generally the advice could be not to be so attached to any of the stacks, just know the stuff that doesn't change that much (algorithms, protocols, etc.) and get your stuff done with whichever tool is at hand.
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by lkozma 17y ago
I see this just as an application of Occam's razor. What Penrose does has been called the "law of minimization of mystery": consciousness is misterious, quantum mechanics is misterious, so why not try to explain one with the other.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Yes, most modern AI researchers believe that the functioning of the brain can be explained by electromagnetic and chemical phenomena, accurately described by 1900s theories. The fact that we don't fully understand its workings is due to its
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by lkozma 17y ago
To be fair, his point is that naming doesn't matter that much.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Again, from krugman-talks: no-one really needs to get rid of national debt, that is what Romania did in 80s and it was the worst economic move ever. You only need to service national debt, i.e. pay off interests, and exponential growth will
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by lkozma 17y ago
His chart has log scale on the x axis. I suspect it would be in fact close to linear if we stretched the axis.
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by lkozma 17y ago
As far as I understand (from watching krugman-talks on youtube) the tragedy of argentina was that its debt was in $, which skyrocketed (as expressed in national currency) due to inflation. In case of US, external debt is in national currenc
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by lkozma 17y ago
That is true for most programming related terms. I think Google trends ranks by the percentage within total queries from a country. If in India people use Google from every IT company but it is less widespread in all households than in the
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by lkozma 17y ago
The title and post implied that we probably often overthink/plan things, and we should jump in and start implementing (earlier). According to the quote (if Tesla was right), even such an immensely successful person as Edison tended to plan/
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by lkozma 17y ago
As an interesting counter-point, here's Tesla's opinion on Edison: " His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sor
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by lkozma 17y ago
Also this palette generator: http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
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by lkozma 17y ago
Reminds me of a JL Borges piece in which he writes of a fictive Chinese encyclopedia in which animals are categorized as: 1. belonging to the Emperor 2. embalmed 3. trained 4. piglets 5. sirens 6. fabulous 7. stray do
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Reciprocity vs. the Ben Franklin effect(novelvig.blogspot.com)
2 points by lkozma 17y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
I pick a nice photo of nature and use a "color palette generator" (search for this, etc.)
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by lkozma 17y ago
He seems to be quite up-to-date otherwise: blogging about new results: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/
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by lkozma 17y ago
I wonder where an idea that pg wrote about in an essay (can't seem to find it now) fits in all this: early adopters in fashion, or the trend-setters are usually fringe groups that want to differentiate themselves by being provocative. Most
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by lkozma 17y ago
Stradivarii ? :)
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by lkozma 17y ago
You could take a look at nearlyfreespeech.net . It is a pre-paid service for technical users similarly to yours and it has quite usable interface.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Here's the same algorithm and other variants implemented in Matlab/C++ (can be run on Netflix-sized data): http://www.cis.hut.fi/alexilin/software/

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