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991.
by lsb 19y ago
(jump 'yc-news 'shark)
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Steganography Is Now Much Easier (with google charts)(chart.apis.google.com)
2 points by lsb 19y ago|3 comments
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Programming Languages and Cognitive Dissonance(lmeyerov.blogspot.com)
3 points by lsb 19y ago|0 comments
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by lsb 19y ago
What I'd find really interesting is a music store that sold new classical music, by David Cope's EMI for example. Generate new scores of classical music (by an algorithm trained on Bach/Vivaldi/Purcell/&c), and synthesize them with som
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Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham(slightlynew.blogspot.com)
47 points by lsb 19y ago|16 comments
996.
by lsb 19y ago
"white kid rectal pyrotechnics" is the best phrase I've heard all week.
997.
by lsb 19y ago
As far as I've seen, most scientists work with R for statistics and TeX for papers; it sounds like this reduces to "Scientists should learn powerful tools.".
998.
by lsb 19y ago
This is why, this is why, this is why it's hot: For photo enthusiasts: I plugged my camera in, iPhoto opened, I pushed one button, and imported all of my pictures. For hackers: system("say all done") if you want to hear when something's d
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by lsb 19y ago
When I'd stopped independent work on it, and brought it to Songkick, it was coded entirely in Javascript, with a reimplementation in Ruby (to check work). Email me (leebutterman/gmail) if you're interested.
1000.
by lsb 19y ago
To quote Chris Rock, "Shit, you could drive a car with your feet if you want to."
1001.
by lsb 19y ago
And the downside is that their disk access, from experience, is really slow.
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by lsb 19y ago
Amazon already has a partnership with Borders. Why not have Borders install Espresso Book Machines? On-demand publishing at a bookstore/music store/cafe? Just imagine some dreamy-eyed teenager, who writes bad poetry (oh noetry) all day an
1003.
by lsb 19y ago
It's from Cilibrasi and Vitanyi. They have shimming factors, so you take the min of A|B and B|A, then you throw in some logs to not penalize low probabilities.
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by lsb 19y ago
Large-scale text mining (Google/Wikipedia). There's boatloads of patterns and data latent in an enormous popular text corpus. For instance, if you have two terms, and you want to see how similar they are, that's P(A|B). So do a search que
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by lsb 19y ago
cool, what do you hack in lisp? i enjoy how ruby and js also support cps/map+fold/bottom-up library design; do you do haskell too?
1006.
by lsb 19y ago
if they love speed so much that they demand each cpu they buy has a POPCOUNT, then it's rather surprising that they'd love the random number generator "3 orders of magnitude slower", no?
1007.
by lsb 19y ago
_why wrote the hpricot html parsers for ruby, as well as tryruby.org, which i showed my dad (who was impressed by it). some people swear in their code, some people write "chunky bacon".
1008.
by lsb 19y ago
so xobni's an outlook plugin, right? why not write xobni's frontend in javascript (that a bookmarklet downloads), so that you can have the xobni experience in ie/ff when browsing gmail.
1009.
by lsb 19y ago
congrats dave! congrats hugo!
1010.
by lsb 19y ago
it's a little kludgy, but here's how it goes: fns stores continuations. gensym: make an array of 20 random characters (make an array of 20 #s, map each to a random character). storefunc: continuation -> string, and store the continuatio
1011.
by lsb 19y ago
I came to Javascript from Ruby/Scheme/Haskell, so when I had to call the Yahoo Search API with a callback, sometimes with two or more searches concurrently, I thought, oh, I'll store the continuation, because they only allow /[A-Za-z0-9.]+/
1012.
by lsb 19y ago
Odysseus is better than Ajax.
1013.
by lsb 19y ago
My recent issue with IE6 (not IE7) is that if you make a checkbox and then set it, and then insert it into the page, it becomes unchecked, so you can't easily pass around nodes. This was IE6 on Windows ME, understandably frustrating after F
1014.
by lsb 19y ago
Most environments for writing text have an autosave. There's a PeriodicalExecuter, in Prototype, where you can run a javascript command every n seconds, so you could do a form.submit every 5 minutes or so, to avoid the timeout issue, if th
1015.
by lsb 19y ago
irb/ghci/drscheme, and then just copy-pasting into something stupid like pico.
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by lsb 19y ago
just from memory, they ask if you can remember long digit strings, and if you take time to return from distractions. being good at hacking involves both. is this a self-selecting pool of people with more autistic traits? 22
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Speech Animation in Paintings(youtube.com)
4 points by lsb 19y ago|1 comments