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by metellus 16y ago
> By "heuristics" I don't strictly mean "rule-based", but you can do a good job in reducing the search space by a large amount if you program in some common sense that will discard obviously bad moves. I believe that the fitness functio
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by metellus 16y ago
Is there any way I can patent the process of patent trolling?
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by metellus 16y ago
That may be the case, but I bet Office can handle those documents just fine. The non-techy user doesn't care why something doesn't work. They just care that it doesn't work.
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by metellus 16y ago
The only reason his intersections are safer is that the lack of signage makes drivers uncomfortable and therefore more careful. Get rid of signs everywhere and that discomfort goes away.
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by metellus 16y ago
Actually, I think this was posted because it was linked in the article from this front page post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699760
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by metellus 16y ago
Another difference here is old age. Trees don't really die of old age (to my knowledge, and even if I'm wrong it doesn't matter because most people think trees won't die of old age), so both trees have an equal number of years left in th
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Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz(wired.com)
84 points by metellus 16y ago|35 comments
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by metellus 16y ago
I hope you realize how insulting that is to any developer (or anyone, really) that enjoys playing games (or doing anything aside from work).
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by metellus 16y ago
I've only heard of him from his comments on rjlipton's blog posts about the claimed P != NP proof, but from just that it's clear that he's a good communicator on top of being a math genius.
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by metellus 16y ago
The print version of World War Z is very good as well.
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by metellus 16y ago
In my (admittedly low level) psychology class, I was taught that it's impossible to acquire language after a certain age. The case study of Genie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child) ) was used and the conclusion was that i
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by metellus 16y ago
Interesting idea, but the results are pretty empty...
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by metellus 16y ago
US soccer fans didn't stop watching after the US was eliminated, but there are a ton of people who only care about soccer every four years that stopped paying attention as soon as we lost. I can't count the number of times I read/heard "
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by metellus 16y ago
Another side effect of this is that the downloader doesn't work at all if you're on a router behind another router. I wasted a couple hours trying to figure out why my SC2 beta wasn't downloading before finding the problem.
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by metellus 16y ago
I think the communities are fundamentally different. On Reddit, you think of yourself as a Redditor. You may only go to certain subreddits, but it's all supposed to be a part of something large. For SO, one of the main points was to give
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by metellus 16y ago
This is an interesting idea, but it seems too complicated to gain the kind of ubiquity it needs to work as a viable currency. As a case study or a prototype for future attempts it looks great, though.
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by metellus 16y ago
I'm having trouble finding a distinction between crash-only software and software with good error handling. If the software (or bank or government or whatever) crashes and then restarts gracefully and automatically, I don't see how it coul
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by metellus 16y ago
No, but it does a good job of explaining the "flow" of a recursive function. It's like doing a manual trace of factorial(4) without needing to know about coding.
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by metellus 16y ago
What you're talking about is called hypothesis testing. Basically, you can figure out exactly how unlikely a given event is under a certain set of assumptions (in this case, how unlikely it would be for a fair coin to show heads 10 times i
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Resolving the St. Petersburg Paradox(mindyourdecisions.com)
3 points by metellus 16y ago|1 comments
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by metellus 16y ago
I'd say that removing withdrawal symptoms is a substantial perk. It sounds to me like addicts and non-addicts were more alert after their coffee while people who received placebos were not. This study is really telling us that caffeine ad
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by metellus 17y ago
and got a free caravan for shelter, and a solar panel, and...