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by pygy_ 16y ago
You basically described the plot of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the adventure game released in the early 90's.
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by pygy_ 16y ago
Sorry, I missed it. Most people here should actually skip the general public explaination and read the part written for scholars, which is more straightforward. I haven't read the essay in PDF format, but I expect it to be quite an insightf
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New Research on Plato and Pythagoras(personalpages.manchester.ac.uk)
32 points by pygy_ 16y ago|12 comments
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Clj, a Clojure REPL and package management system by David Edgar Liebke(github.com)
75 points by pygy_ 16y ago|12 comments
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by pygy_ 16y ago
Objective C is a strict superset of C, and garbage collection is optional (I'm not even sure that GC is enabled on iOS).
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by pygy_ 16y ago
How come I'm able to read the full text without any university proxy?
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by pygy_ 17y ago
And death. Biological systems do crash, all the time.
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by pygy_ 17y ago
The idea isn't new [1], but I like the word he coined. Metaignorance is way more explicit that the "Dunning-Kruger effect". :-) 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Good point, I remeber reading about a game, initially accepted, that had been pulled out because it relied on a library that was able to call private APIs, even though the game didn't use that part of the library. This happened when Apple s
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Nitpick: AFAIK, the game of life (as a mathematical concept) is in itself a turing complete automaton, you don't need to explicitly simulate a turing machine with it, in the same way that you don't need to implement a turing machine on top
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Programming isn't just using APIs. For everything else, you may be more creative in a certain language, because you know it inside out, and are able to think in it. Having better abstractions means you're able to fit more things in your hea
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by pygy_ 17y ago
A truckload of games have interpreters, coming either from indie developers or major publishers. None of these will be able to update their games to the new SDK. Regarding the interpreters, I used to be right, but it changed at one point. Q
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Interpreters were fine as long as the user could not download or create code. A lot of games use a scripting language (Lua, Python, and other proprietary languages (SCUMM for the Monkey Island remake, for example). ... and there's a CLR por
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by pygy_ 17y ago
That's patently wrong. Until now, you could link to an interpreter, as long as all the code that it running was bundled with the app as downloaded from the App Store. No code could be generated by the user or downloaded from the net, though
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Narcotics? Jarc could have been Joan (of Arc, of course) With all due appologies for these silly puns...
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by pygy_ 17y ago
If the technique is innocuous, this is the beginning of a revolution. It could be used in a wide range of other diseases, spanning from viral infections to genetic problems where a gene is overexpressed, and possibly others as well.
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by pygy_ 17y ago
It is able to change its center of gravity (it's mentioned near the beginning of the clip).
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Indeed, the title of the paper is "Motivations of play in online games." Since the author considers addictive behaviour as pathological, the current title doesn't do justice to the content. Could an editor change the title accordingly? To w
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by pygy_ 17y ago
The indexable skip list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list ) is another interesting structure for this kind of problem. It's an expansion of the concept described, with a probablistic twist. It has O(log(n)) insertion, deletion and ra
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by pygy_ 17y ago
... with the notable exception of (most) of your neurons. The only exception happens in the hippocampus which is involved in long term memory. (As a side note, a reduced turnover of these neurons is associated with depression, but I don't k
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by pygy_ 17y ago
Identity is indeed elusive. I tend to think of myself as a process too, i.e. a braid of selfupdating information embedded in space-time (did that make any sense? (-: ). What puzzles me the most is the permanence of identity despite the sisc
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by pygy_ 17y ago
> {} == parentesi graffe (claws) I initially read that as "parentesi giraffe" which could have been plausible... ,-{ __ }-, in French, they are (plural form): ( parenthèses ) [ crochets ] => "hooks" { accolades }
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by pygy_ 17y ago
I subscribed, and got the message instantly. The signup process is more convoluted than the current trend, but it was the norm a few years ago and I don't find it that annoying.
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by pygy_ 17y ago
See also : The Romantic WTF Public License http://danslalune.posterous.com/the-romantic-wtf-public-lice... It's even more free than the original since the license is released under itself. Released on Valentine's day by yours truly :-)
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by pygy_ 17y ago
I follow that discussion too (and posted some messages). The new proposal is great IMO. Simple yet powerful. There's no formal semantics, that's true, but I think one wouldn't be very long (although I would be absolutely unable to write it
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by pygy_ 17y ago
You can add Lua to your list. Here's the full manual including: - the language refenrence - all standard library functions - the C API. TOC: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ Manual: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.htm
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by pygy_ 17y ago
This is most probably also a problem for anti-aliasing in 3D or 2D verctor rendering. Have a look at this screenshot of a wireframe model rendered in OpenGL on Mac OS X. http://i.imgur.com/IxrS7.png The oblique lines look dashed, even if