neworder

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by neworder 5y ago
I second that. Crpgaddict's work ethic is beyond legendary, at times bordering on insanity. Honestly, I find Chet's blog to be one of the best and most valuable places on the internet these days (and I mean this literally). A mode
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On improv and drawing(abandoneddepot.wordpress.com)
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by neworder 12y ago
Just for the record, "horses against tanks" is well known to be propaganda bullshit.
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Free Improv(abandoneddepot.wordpress.com)
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by neworder 12y ago
There is a fundraising effort to fund the translation of Grothendieck's biography, written by Winfried Scharlau: http://www.gofundme.com/7ldiwo I've read the 1st volume of the biography and fully recommend it, so
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by neworder 13y ago
> Further, it shocks me at how bad the graphics are at some of these games after looking at them again after decades. I played MI 1 and 2 in the early 1990s and after revisiting them after 15 years or so, my impression was exactly the o
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by neworder 14y ago
Just a side note - you're probably conflating Perimeter Institute (www.perimeterinstitute.ca) and Institute for Quantum Computing ( http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/ ). Both are in Waterloo, but it's the latter that is involved in developing quantum
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by neworder 15y ago
Maybe the article itself is a honeypot.
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SpaceChem - "concurrent programming game"(spacechemthegame.com)
1 points by neworder 15y ago|0 comments
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by neworder 15y ago
"The Wire" is not "some TV cops and robbers show", but a complex narrative that depicts exactly the kind of situtations we're talking about (yes, it's styled as police drama, but it's much more than that).
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by neworder 15y ago
>I would refuse to work anywhere that I was expected to stand aside and ignore fraud, or where I was punished for doing what everyone would agree is the right thing (...) You don't always have that much choice, do you? >I would rail
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by neworder 15y ago
The thing that has always puzzled me is if one's opinion on "talent vs hard work" is actually correlated to one's amount of talent. You can often hear very gifted people say things like "it's hard work that actually matters". At the same ti
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by neworder 15y ago
I absolutely love the ending: "After this, they decided to pass me, though they said that my harmonic analysis was far from satisfactory. :(" especially when compared to the Fields Medal citation, where Tao is awarded the medal "for his con
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by neworder 15y ago
There is an important factor discouraging publishing source code - fear that there indeed are bugs and they will be exposed. This is blatantly "security through obscurity", but I fear it's a common attitude. If there are bugs and code is se
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Michael Nielsen - speaking about open science(michaelnielsen.org)
2 points by neworder 15y ago|0 comments