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by ot 13y ago
Still, when performance matters, C is the blows all the others away by large: http://porngram.sexualitics.org/?q=erlang%2Cclojure%2CAda%2C... Disclaimer: all puns intended
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by ot 13y ago
It is true that any strong symmetric encryption generates data that it is indistinguishable from random for any (efficiently computable) statistical test, but these tests are extremely weak and don't prove anything. All but the last tw
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MarioWay: a hands-free wheelchair to narrow the disability gap(indiegogo.com)
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Gigapixel ArtZoom(gigapixelartzoom.com)
4 points by ot 13y ago|0 comments
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by ot 13y ago
Recursive includes can be useful. For example Boost Preprocessor [1] uses them to implement iteration. [1] http://www.boostpro.com/mplbook/preprocessor.html
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by ot 13y ago
A few years ago I wrote a tool to do exactly this [1], which also works for any executable/library, not just Python code. It works by compiling the code with a unique virtual prefix that is something like /tmp/boxes/4031
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by ot 13y ago
I'd like to see a variation of this contest where a "typical", valid source code is given as part of the rules, and the objective is to change the code as little as possible to produce the highest amount of compilation errors
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Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition(tgceec.tumblr.com)
184 points by ot 13y ago|43 comments
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by ot 13y ago
Also, if you google the title and click on the nytimes links from there, there is no paywall. It has always worked for me. Probably they look at the referrer, but I don't know why they do it.
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Microsoft Research adopts Open Access policy for publications(blogs.msdn.com)
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Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (2013)(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
50 points by ot 13y ago|28 comments
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The Death Of Expertise(thefederalist.com)
190 points by ot 13y ago|159 comments
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Suave is a simple web development F# library (suave.io)
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by ot 13y ago
Note that this thread has been submitted many times to HN, but it never generated generate many comments: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=what's...
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by ot 13y ago
> Instead of parsing data, it might be better to store it as a blob of some sort with a binary index. This is exactly something I did for JSON, I call it semi-indexing: instead of parsing it into a tree of pointers, I create a succinct r
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Game theory - Splitting a sandwich and not feeling deceived(math.stackexchange.com)
2 points by ot 13y ago|0 comments
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by ot 13y ago
Interestingly, this is something Julian Assange worked on several year before starting Wikileaks: Starting around 1997, he co-invented the Rubberhose deniable encryption system, a cryptographic concept made into a software package
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by ot 13y ago
You are right, but I was referring to either finite sums or Fourier series, your example is not one because sum of the squares of the coefficients is infinite. I don't know what can be said about arbitrary countable/uncountable su
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by ot 13y ago
Yes, but only on a finite open interval, that is (a, b) with a, b real numbers. In the post the sum of periodic functions is equal to x^2 on the whole real line. This is impossible with sums of continuous periodic functions, such as Fourier
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by ot 13y ago
vs H in HQ9+ ( http://esolangs.org/wiki/HQ9%2B ). Everything is just simpler in HQ9+.
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by ot 13y ago
Similar arguments, but with more playful tone and drawings: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-u...
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Why can't the IT industry deliver as in other industries?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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How much is time wrong around the world?(poisson.phc.unipi.it)
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The new Photosynth(photosynth.net)
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Unicode in Python: Common Pitfalls(blogs.skicelab.com)
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by ot 13y ago
Regarding brain size, there is a very nice TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so_... The speaker argues that while there are animals with brains bigger than ours, their neuron density is
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by ot 13y ago
Indeed, many mathematicians think in terms of non-standard analysis, and then translate their proofs into standard arguments, even if the non-standard ones can be made just as rigorous as the standard ones. Terry Tao has a wonderful series
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Watch This Freaky Gyro Cube Balance Perfectly, Defying Gravity(wired.com)
4 points by ot 13y ago|1 comments
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A Microsoft Star Goes to Google(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Gmail performs image request when the user actually opens the message(twitter.com)
1 points by ot 13y ago|0 comments

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