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by seles 14y ago
Setting MaxExtraPrecision to "to use as much automation as it needs to resolve numerical values" looks very interesting. It seems like it is being lazy, because the amount of precision needed isn't known until after the result is used (in t
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by seles 14y ago
Link?
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by seles 14y ago
Actually with this new standard they are hoping to cut it down to 81.8%
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by seles 14y ago
Do you have a wife and kids?
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by seles 14y ago
That is the R-pentomino which has a life span of 1103 generations, but they were running it on a non infinite grid, so the boundaries probably caused it to die off much sooner. I don't understand why they are using finite grids (probably ef
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by seles 14y ago
The memory hierarchy can never completely flatten. Information takes physical space to store and the speed of light is finite. So the more information, the further things are apart, and the longer access times will take. That being said thi
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by seles 14y ago
Couldn't you just hit enter after hitting control-C to bring up a new prompt below the one with the ^C in it?
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by seles 14y ago
See also: One combinator basis for stack based language http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.concatenative/1915 Two combinator basis for Joy: http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html
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Iota and Jot: the simplest languages?(semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu)
3 points by seles 14y ago|2 comments
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by seles 14y ago
Except he was paying, and still got no voice.
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Optimal Arithmetic Encoding(www3.sympatico.ca)
1 points by seles 15y ago|0 comments
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by seles 15y ago
There was a seemingly related hacker news page on the top page along side with this one http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html , about the 64 bit OS LoseThos and the mental insanity of its author. It was a very interesting read and I wanted to s
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by seles 15y ago
Driving is like a chicken and egg problem. I need to drive because everyone else drives. I live in a city that is very sparse because of all the parking lots and wide roads, like the article mentions. So not much is walkable. I also can't f
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by seles 15y ago
I have been using GoDaddy for years. I'm just using it for a simple webpage+domain hosting and email. It works but I'm probably being overcharged since I don't bother with coupons. I have always been annoyed about the privacy complaints I'v
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by seles 15y ago
There is a rating higher than 5 stars, called TOWER. It has been a while but if I recall it is very difficult to reach that with offices, because they have a large amount of traffic compared to other ways of getting population, making it to
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by seles 15y ago
I think PG only aims to keep the "asshole" kind of trolls out not the ones that say controversial things, as he gave examples of how people tend to be stubborn and not delete their own comments that are being downvoted for controversy, but
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by seles 15y ago
An old game called Sim Tower was pretty cool in that your success as a huge tower builder was directly linked to how well you could optimize elevators. There was a maximum number of elevators that you are allowed to construct and once your
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by seles 15y ago
why?
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by seles 15y ago
Is it too late to enter the challenge, link is broken for me now, although it still says I have qualified to take the challenge...
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by seles 15y ago
Cool, it would be neat if you could allow user to control the values for the rules.
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by seles 15y ago
I did, but it was long time ago, and not that good. I don't think have it anymore either...
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by seles 15y ago
All of the examples that I tried reached steady state extremely quickly. 2D game of life can often go for quite a while before reaching steady state. I do not know if this is because the rule used for 3D isn't very good, or if this is a pro
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Japanese engineer crunches pi to 10 trillion digits(content.usatoday.com)
1 points by seles 15y ago|0 comments
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by seles 15y ago
I've been told there is currently a queue of 1-2 hours to enter... I am in the queue :)
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by seles 15y ago
Wouldn't seeing a bus drive on the shoulder or fly by you in the HOV lane be a kind of advertisement? I never see buses do that where I live.
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by seles 15y ago
Since this is turning into a bit of a FAQ, I'll ask something I've been wondering. DDG is dependent on its competitors. If DDG gains significant market share, what is to protect it from them just blocking it? Obviously there is a symboitic
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by seles 15y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jxrNNtJ...
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by seles 15y ago
No, just because it was a hoax doesn't mean it isn't true anyway. You could make a hoax webpage with bogus information about how the earth is not flat. Doing so would not make the earth flat.
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by seles 15y ago
My notion of supercompilation is just the evaluating of expressions at compile time that do not depend on things at run time. A trivial case that most compilers do is converting print 1+1 to print 2. Since 1+1 does not depend on anything th
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by seles 15y ago
Wow, I completely missed that joke (when I originally read that section)

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