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by polm23 10y ago
Anyone remember eqn? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eqn I've enjoyed the part of this interview with Linda Cherry, one of its creators, talking about it in comparison with Tex (incorrectly transcribed as "tech
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by polm23 10y ago
America has a surplus of lawyers, which makes running a successful practice or getting a job as a new graduate harder than it's ever been. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/A-glut-of-l...
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Hex Color Picker in Google Search Results(google.com)
2 points by polm23 10y ago|0 comments
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by polm23 10y ago
The text in that PDF didn't show up correctly for me, but there's an HTML version of the paper here: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds/sds.html
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by polm23 10y ago
Archillect is a popular Twitter bot that posts a certain kind of image. The code isn't open source, but the developer has described in general terms how it works sometimes. https://twitter.com/archillect The basic idea
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Show HN: ShowMeMore, an Archillect-alike taste bot(github.com)
2 points by polm23 10y ago|1 comments
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by polm23 10y ago
This is a 19th century machine that predicts storms using leeches that pull hammers to strike a bell when the air pressure changes.
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The Tempest Prognosticator(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by polm23 10y ago|1 comments
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by polm23 10y ago
This is an overview of the mathematics of infinity, lovingly illustrated with examples like an infinite cow, an infinite chicken, bubblegum... It's a curious transmission from a more chaotic universe.
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Life on the Infinite Farm [pdf](math.brown.edu)
105 points by polm23 10y ago|12 comments
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by polm23 10y ago
A student in a course I TA'd in college used Microsoft Word's built-in summarization to reduce books to ten words. The results were hilarious. http://jason-huff.com/projects/autosummarize/
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by polm23 10y ago
That would only be accurate if you assume most people read the article.
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Life on the Infinite Farm [pdf](math.brown.edu)
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by polm23 10y ago
Philae, the probe that landed on a comet, used Forth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010 ChipWits was a programming game written in MacFORTH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChipWits
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by polm23 10y ago
Find this and other symbols in Hornung's Handbook of Designs and Devices, first published in 1932 . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_P._Hornung http://www.amazon.co.jp/Handbook-Designs-Devic
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by polm23 10y ago
Here's Ryan Clark (Crypt of the NecroDancer) writing about what makes a game commercially viable: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanClark/20150917/253842/Wha... Here's Jan Willem Nijman of Vla
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by polm23 10y ago
He also wrote up what he learned making these fifty games and I translated it (with his permission & cooperation): https://gist.github.com/polm/05db396cf08b9ec2a81c
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by polm23 11y ago
I recently did some research on sites like this and one of the oldest ones I found was "Yo You Want To" from 2009. It was basically the same as the others, but what was really interesting was finding analysis of why it and all the
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Slash: Search via your phone's keyboard(tapslash.com)
1 points by polm23 11y ago|0 comments
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by polm23 11y ago
Sometimes when I participate in a game jam I want character portraits, but I'm no artist and making a face builder or something takes time. So using Google's facial recognition API and the Internet Archive Flickr Stream I made thi
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300+ Public Domain Headshots for Games(github.com)
3 points by polm23 11y ago|2 comments
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by polm23 11y ago
This is an old idea in Hypertext called Stretch Text (since 1967!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText Every so often someone hears about the old hypertext theory and implements a Javascript or CSS version, but
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by polm23 11y ago
Tweet at it and it'll give you the "entry" for your tweet! There is a word filter, so it will (hopefully) avoid the fate of Tay.
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PeopleDex: Pokedex-Trained Char-RNN Twitter Bot(twitter.com)
1 points by polm23 11y ago|1 comments
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by polm23 11y ago
If all those services provide JSON blobs, that's halfway to making an RSS feed of them or building a custom search interface or what have you. The other half is standardizing common field names (so you don't have the same field na
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by polm23 11y ago
I was under the impression Factor had been abandoned, but it seems things are pretty lively on git: https://github.com/factor/factor/commits/master
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by polm23 11y ago
Thank you for that, that is not something I was expecting to see.
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Show HN: Search JSON objects with GMail-like syntax(github.com)
3 points by polm23 11y ago|0 comments
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by polm23 11y ago
When has Lindsey Graham changed his mind? His Senate homepage still has this statement on it: ".@tim_cook Our nation is at war & this Iphone was used to kill Americans. Protect our homeland, not terrorists. Please cooperate with @F
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by polm23 11y ago
Thinking of vertical farms as offices for plants makes a lot of sense.

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