mgeorgoulo

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by mgeorgoulo 8y ago
Chapter 8.1 shows an awesome algorithm!
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by mgeorgoulo 8y ago
This sort of distraction arises whenever we try to adjust logic to words and not the other way around. It is said that this kind of distinction is only relevant to scientists. The article is very convincing though, that in the case of AI, t
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by mgeorgoulo 8y ago
Life has an awesome way of turning disaster into opportunity!
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
Very good results and embarrassingly easy to implement! The very stretched waveform did contain some audible artifacts, but I think other methods like FFT would introduce some as well. This kind of trick works because our hearing is frequen
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
I bet a super-intelligent alien ethologist would interpret our society as a living thing. I'm almost sure there are anthropologists who share the same view :) The study of multi-organism systems: populations, ecosystems and the like is
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
I bet every biology student has struggled with the introductory "what is life" chapter, full of conflicting definitions. It is so difficult to define life because there is nothing to be defined. There are complex stuff and simple
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
I like using trigonometric functions for other things beyond rotations. For instance, a cropped sine ( [-pi/2,3pi/2] ), remapped to [0,1] in both axes is very handy as a smooth-step function. Another range ( [0, pi] ) is very conv
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
It fails to address an important aspect of learning by projects: Being exposed to the problems. You are orders of magnitude more productive when learning the solutions to problems you have encountered before. This kind of motivation can o
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
When I was little, my dad had a DOS PC in his office. I remember writing a quadratic equation solver in QBasic. It was so unbelievably fast compared to struggling with pen and paper. Truly magical!
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Facebook supports 3D posts using glTF file format(developers.facebook.com)
3 points by mgeorgoulo 9y ago|0 comments
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
As of 2018, Greece charges €0.04 / bag. Albeit very effective, I don't know how to feel about the actual contents of my new multi-use bag. Almost every food item is packed in a single-use plastic package. It certainly seems that t
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
Reminds me of Bertrand Russell who used to write English in Greek characters to keep his diary private as a child :) (Anecdote from "Logicomix" graphic novel)
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
Chances are, older people have been deceived more. This is a reason to be a bit more sceptical upon meeting a new person. While this may be subtle in itself, the very assumption that your peer may also be sceptical about you can make the si
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
Never expected that something could be blamed for being too useful. Or did I? To tell you the truth it always seemed like there's an awful lot of logic in the way internet works . Seems like the real world is catching on, trying to cl
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
Of course, the same method can be applied to reading other people's code. Actually, that's analogous to what Franklin did. He tried to capture the essence of a finished work of which he approved. Using a phrase-book in such a mann
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
All of these are already handled by facebook and such. Maybe involving something useful in the process would justify a new service. For instance look at language exchange, which is penpals with an intent to learn each other's language.
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Show HN: Haskell Tiny Tetris(github.com)
4 points by mgeorgoulo 9y ago|0 comments
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by mgeorgoulo 9y ago
Awesome. Stuff I found interesting: Triangle and Square waves have only "odd" harmonics: 3x, 5x, 7x of the base frequency and so on... Sawtooth has even & odd harmonics. Sound "brightness". Everyone speaks about i