s-phi-nl

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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
Prof. Richard Lipton of Georgia Tech has an interesting series of blog posts on this result. See: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/a-big-result-on-gr... https://rjlipton.wordpress.com&#x2F
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Another Flipping Puzzle(solipsys.co.uk)
4 points by s-phi-nl 11y ago|0 comments
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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
This reminds me of the voteview project, which calculates dimensions for members of the US Congress. http://voteview.com/ Blog at: https://voteviewblog.wordpress.com/
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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
I have a screenshot of that which I could upload to Dropbox if anyone wants.
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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668197
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Incidentally, the Supreme Court recently confirmed this in Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads , by a vote of 9-0.
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Note that he says "I wasn't particularly good at history or physics" (emphasis added), not "I was not any good at physics." As other comments point out, there is enough to physics besides math that someone (who wa
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
I do not know, but I suspect this is exactly why RMS dislikes SAAS: because it can technically obey a license without having to give users the freedoms he designed the GPL to give.
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
I have experience of performers, when not accompanied by a piano, choose to perform intervals closer to 1.50000 than 1.50001, so it seems they prefer them. However, the answer is more complicated than that. Quoting directly from my acoustic
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
I appreciate the link, and that article has much good discussion. I would not exactly call it a "duplicate", though: it is in French and this article is in English. I think both threads are valuable.
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Someone recently did something like this for a programming language research conference. http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/10/21/is-popl-one-communit...
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Link to the chapter: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rage-against-the-machine...
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
This stems from the concern (valid, in my opinion) of preserving the collection. If you let just anyone enter the physical library to access it, your risk would be higher that someone would accidentally damage or take some of the collectio
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
While it is not exactly what you are describing, you remind me of one clip from Yes, Minister: http://youtu.be/G0ZZJXw4MTA
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Can you give an example? That sounds interesting.
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Structure and Efficiency of Computer Programs(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
2 points by s-phi-nl 12y ago|0 comments
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Can anyone compare this with PyXLL[1]? It does require add-ins, but xlwings requires a VBA module. From the instructions, importing the two seem about equally complicated. I am more curious about technical differences than the difference in
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/830/ "We can't be sure, but we've analyzed genes on several of your chromosomes, and its hard to avoid the conclusion: at some point, your parents had sex."
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
FWIW, Modern Operating Systems is the classic book by Tanenbaum. You are correct, however, that my edition has a circus on the cover, not a dinosaur. Seems like the author did not put too much care into this list.
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
It is meaningless to nitpick about whether a language is declarative or not since the term "declarative" lacks a good definition. Robert Harper, a programming languages researcher, lists 6 separate definitions and concludes, &quot
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Invented Human Languages (2010)(schott.blogs.nytimes.com)
30 points by s-phi-nl 12y ago|12 comments
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Microkernels vs. hypervisors (2008)(ok-labs.com)
54 points by s-phi-nl 12y ago|9 comments
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
PG himself once cautioned about the connection between personal liberty issues and hacking: I do believe the TSA stories represent a danger. If there's a road from hacking to politics, it's probably civil liberties. ht
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by s-phi-nl 12y ago
Would you please make a post to HN when the challenges are back up for newcomers? I could also just send you an email and you reply when you can. Thanks.
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by s-phi-nl 13y ago
I know that professional orchestras (a job with a strong interpersonal component) do "blind" auditions behind a screen until the final round and then meet with the auditioners to evaluate the interpersonal component. As far as I k
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by s-phi-nl 13y ago
Could you expand "defines Fibonacci numbers as an element of its endomorphism ring Z[x]/(x^2 - x - 1)" in a few more words? Are you saying that Fibonacci numbers are themselves an element of its endomorphism ring (despite not
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by s-phi-nl 13y ago
I think ruttiger may mean that 2013 is the product of three unique primes (e.g. 30=2 * 3 * 5 would be another example, but 50=5^2 * 2 is not).
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by s-phi-nl 13y ago
Note that this is partially a result of the Knight Foundation grant to Development Seed that was reported a couple of years ago. http://www.mapbox.com/blog/knight-invests-openstreetmap/ Nice work!
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by s-phi-nl 13y ago
They recently changed their membership standards to not discriminate against homosexuals. http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/MembershipStandards...
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by s-phi-nl 13y ago
On your second paragraph, see http://xkcd.com/756/ .

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