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by lkozma 16y ago
Someone also noticed that Pink Floyd's Echoes is nicely synchronized with the scene. AFAIR, both parties claimed it was a coincidence.
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by lkozma 16y ago
It can all be traced back to a remark by Robert Bringhurst in his influential book "The Elements of Typographic Style" in which he suggests that in titles it is worth using the most decorative & sign we have (some fonts have different v
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by lkozma 16y ago
Reminds me of Otto's Mops: http://audiopoetry.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/ottos-mops/
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Gell-Mann on Feynman(edge.org)
12 points by lkozma 16y ago|1 comments
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by lkozma 16y ago
There is, but you are not taking advantage of it as long as you choose randomly. Imagine the other tries to exploit your imagined human non-randomness and plays rock all the time. You play totally random, so on the long term you win/lose/ti
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by lkozma 16y ago
Yes, it is closely related to the topic of this essay, i.e. automating certain parts of mathematics.
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Doron Zeilberger on computer-assisted proofs(math.rutgers.edu)
27 points by lkozma 16y ago|6 comments
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by lkozma 16y ago
Isn't that a contradiction? Or the cats can feed themselves, they just hate eating alone? :)
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by lkozma 16y ago
What about Saarland? :)
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by lkozma 16y ago
But that's the point, if they are doing nothing illegal and we are not challenging the legal framework either, what right do we have to give them a derogatory name.
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by lkozma 16y ago
I think gst's comment makes a lot of sense, although it might or might not apply to this particular case. The assumption is that the patent system is one that is fundamentally broken, resulting (among other things) in such patent trolls who
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by lkozma 16y ago
Another design studio's credo: http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/
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by lkozma 16y ago
How do you describe a "socialistic" workforce?
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by lkozma 16y ago
Yes, on one that has sarcasm.
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by lkozma 16y ago
I didn't know about this, thanks! While we are at it, there is also the 2009 paper: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data by Peter Norvig.
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by lkozma 16y ago
ESR doesn't mention the famous 1960 paper: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...
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by lkozma 16y ago
A bit off-topic, but I don't really get Groupon. I looked at it for my region about 5 times and in each case the offer seemed to be way overpriced even with the discount and it was something that I wouldn't want even for free, and possibly
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by lkozma 16y ago
Yes, it is quite interesting, and although the main idea is straightforward, the analysis of concrete algorithms gets quite technical. Also, it's still actively researched and maybe not entirely accepted into the mainstream yet. AFAIK it ha
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by lkozma 16y ago
A good part of the presentation is a critique of worst-case-analysis, which is often not relevant for practical problems. The author doesn't mention smoothed analysis which addresses this very issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed_a
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by lkozma 16y ago
Others have put it more eloquently already but I can just suggest the same: start working on a project and pick up what you need as you go. If you want to learn Linux, do something that involves some server side work: get some cheap web hos
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by lkozma 16y ago
Here's a version that cycles through the colors continuously (without jumps). Now the numbers do not directly corespond to the color code anymore (they alternate going up-down). Also you can multiply by 256, as the maximum is not reached fo
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by lkozma 16y ago
Yes, but in many ways it was the consequence of 1848.
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by lkozma 16y ago
In most of Central-Eastern Europe 1848 removed the last traces of feudalism, catalysed the "awakening" of nations, leading to the formation of nation-states some decades later. The nationalism ignited in 1848 is such a strong force until to
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by lkozma 16y ago
The problem arises when you are asked to provide further (possibly infinite nr) elements of the sequence: the first would still compress nicely as "a(i)=i*10+1." yours would be "a(3)=pi, a(4)=zebra, a(5)=cheetah, a(6)=akrcqfztaf a(7)=666"
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by lkozma 16y ago
A different account of Forth, which convinced me at least to stay away from it: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...
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by lkozma 16y ago
I agree about 31 but not necessarily about zebra or pi. A reasonably meaningful metric is compressibility of the sequence, or how short code could produce it. Although that just opens a different can of worms, it could be argued that 31,41
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by lkozma 16y ago
Ah, yes, you are right :)
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by lkozma 16y ago
Not sure I get the joke, do you know someone famous with the same name or does it just sound weird to you? :)
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by lkozma 16y ago
No, they said "we will get in touch with you soon", which they tried to (as I found out later) via the recruiters, but I just assumed it was the usual (sadly) method of ignoring candidates they didn't choose. Since I had other applications
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by lkozma 16y ago
That's ok, I don't plan to send it to any recruiter. The one contact I had with a recruiting company (big brand name) was when I applied to a job, I interviewed with some technical people at the company, they decided to hire me and they tol

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