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by merraksh 16y ago
That is a nice instance, an optimization solver took 13 seconds to solve instead of the 0.2 seconds for the problem posted by the OP. Some people in combinatorial optimization are addressing the problem of finding the hardest Sudoku problem
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by merraksh 16y ago
While genetic algorithms are useful for solving certain problems, Sudoku puzzles exhibit a strong combinatorial structure that can be exploited by other approaches (Constraint Programming above all, I think). When modeled as feasibility pro
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by merraksh 16y ago
As an instructor myself, I must admit I did take this just a little seriously.
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by merraksh 16y ago
Very interesting read. The final part is a bit of a stretch: I have long argued that degree-granting programs should employ "fire-walking" as a last exam. The chair-person of the program should wait on the far side of a bed of red-hot coal
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by merraksh 16y ago
While I agree with that, I thought he said the only source of wealth is ideas and then say it's manufacturing instead.
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by merraksh 16y ago
The author seems to appreciate the wealth produced by ideas , at least here: Why do I finger innovation? Because innovation defies all laws of conservation: with innovation, you create wealth out of nothing. One day, you have nothing in y
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by merraksh 16y ago
Related discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058946 I'm still a bit sad Schumacher Clean never shows up in these lists.
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by merraksh 16y ago
In the phase diagram on Wikipedia, which is more precise, shows a negative slope on the transition frozen-liquid, unlike the sketched version on the second video, which, I guess, is for all other elements. On such a negative slope, if the t
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by merraksh 16y ago
No matter how natural and necessary this might be, it doesn't happen very often that someone fights for a group he/she doesn't belong to. Hats off once more to JGC for that.
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by merraksh 17y ago
Nice. Did the recording get interrupted by the camera being hit by one of the stadium's arcs?
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by merraksh 17y ago
This reminded me of an old movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF6DI0btvVY Makes more sense to Italian speaking people.
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by merraksh 17y ago
Classify the players' smiles, from none to light-up-the-locker-room. Then see how long the players lived. I haven't read the research article, and I agree that smiling doesn't hurt, but this post surely doesn't make it sound very scientif
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by merraksh 17y ago
And even then, which do you find more convincing, the fact that there is an argument - which you have never read, and have no intention of reading - for which none of the hundred or so errors found so far have proved to be fatal, or the fa
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by merraksh 17y ago
I fail to understand how this can be useful. Seems an (inverse) application of an old method: to say something wise, first think of something foolish and then say the opposite.
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by merraksh 17y ago
Posted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174204
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by merraksh 17y ago
And now it's LaTex. Almost there...
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by merraksh 17y ago
There is a Wordpress plugin that accepts a LaTeX formula between "$latex" and "$" and places a PNG image. Handy when you have webpages for math-related teaching. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-latex/
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by merraksh 17y ago
I knew about pgf, in fact I've made learning it my new year's resolution. It is indeed amazing. I didn't know the texample.net website though, thanks.
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by merraksh 17y ago
It's a rather complicated way to ensure that all points have y coordinate between 2 and 4, thus cutting all lines that would extend out of the "writable" two squares. That expression equals zero if and only if 2<=y<=4. (edit) If you
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by merraksh 17y ago
Oops, that's supposed to be inside out: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} ... \end{center} \end{figure} Not sure it works the way I first suggested. Apologies.
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by merraksh 17y ago
The first time I read this comment the title had a typo ("Beautfy" instead of "Beauty") that has been corrected. By YC, I suppose.
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by merraksh 17y ago
I don't want to have them all bunched up one side of the page Try \begin{center} \begin{figure}[ht] ... \end{figure} \end{center} Also, LaTeX usually does a good job in placing figures (which, in professionally typeset jour
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by merraksh 17y ago
I make most of my with xfig and export to .eps. I also use the LaTeX package psfrag to include LaTeX math formulae in images.
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by merraksh 17y ago
There are a few examples of how this can be done. One of them is Mathematical Programming Computation (MPC), a journal where articles submitted must be accompanied by the source code that was used to produce the results. The article is peer
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by merraksh 17y ago
Agreed. I teach 60-minute classes using both a chalkboard and 15/20 slides prepared with Latex and Beamer -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX) -- which I post on my course page in advance for to the students to print and use in
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by merraksh 17y ago
Update: the layout has been fixed. The space bar problem is still there, but given that I use my thumbs I'd place it on the front :)
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by merraksh 17y ago
Isn't half of the keyboard upside down? For symmetry, the side keys (shift, ctrl on both sides, caps and esc on the left, enter, backspace on the right) should all be on the bottom. Otherwise I'd have to re-train my left hand to trewq rathe
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by merraksh 17y ago
Try the arrow keys.
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by merraksh 17y ago
Your link didn't work for me, but this http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=q%3Dsite%3Ahacke... shows 255,000 results, of which hackerne.ws is the first, news.ycombinator.com is second :-| [edit: luckily, Google's duplicate content
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by merraksh 17y ago
True, monaco9 looks a lot like clean12. However, I use a 13point version for coding. It's a little taller and for that reason, in my opinion, clearer. If schumacher disappears, I should look for monaco 10pts, as I can't find it on my linux

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