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Security Theatre at Allied Irish Banks (details)(olivernash.org)
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Security Theatre at Allied Irish Banks(github.com)
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by ocfnash 11y ago
The term is also used to describe some people's ability to grok simple arguments without needing to fall back on formal methods. A trivial example might be the pigeon hole principle where most people can just "see" that it is
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by ocfnash 11y ago
Somewhat related: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/7330/which-math-paper-maxi...
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by ocfnash 12y ago
Wait, that's my blog post from ages ago! Looking over it now, one thing that might be appreciated here are the generalisations. For example consider a similar puzzle except instead of a chessboard and 64 coins, you have a 6x6 board, wi
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by ocfnash 12y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it might be possible to prove the existence of fixed points of compression programs using only general assumptions (which would be satisfied by the Lempel-Ziv implementations the author discusses so well). Such a fi
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by ocfnash 12y ago
Fascinating, I've wondered a few times over the past year or so why the ideas were shelved. Each of your points is very illuminating. It's such a nice idea that it's a shame it turned out not to be worth pursuing from a busin
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by ocfnash 12y ago
A very interesting application of this point of view was a proposed projector of Light Blue Optics. The projector would have the property that it was near 100% efficient: it would essentially steer the light to the desired locations (rather
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by ocfnash 12y ago
Oh dear my table of effort censoring frequencies got all messed up and is annoying to read. Here is a slightly less garbled version: isInconsistentDistances (difference of first and last 'distance' numbers in effort more than 2% a
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by ocfnash 12y ago
Author here. I just had a look at those links and they're super. I know what I'll be reading when I get back from this morning's cycle! Regarding the fact that I threw out so many segment efforts for the Col du Tourmalet and
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Mining Strava's cycling data(ocfnash.wordpress.com)
27 points by ocfnash 12y ago|11 comments
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Free DNA-based iOS game for 23andMe customers.(ocfnash.wordpress.com)
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by ocfnash 13y ago
As others have pointed out, these are indeed just analogues of (fundamental) monopoles. IMHO, this is an example of a deliberately-slightly-misleading abstract for a paper. The authors write: "Although analogues of magnetic monopoles h
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by ocfnash 13y ago
IMHO, the FM-index deserves to be highlighted. That it is possible to store a string in a compressed format which can answer length-P substring queries in O(P) time (with good constant factors) is quite surprising at first sight. I recently
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The genetic code and the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics.(americanscientist.org)
1 points by ocfnash 13y ago|0 comments