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by seles 16y ago
It is quite ironic how OKCupid uses dating sites own stats to show how bad they are, using only simple math. "It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com." Wow, this was a soberin
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by seles 16y ago
The lower bound indeed is 1, however higher lower bounds can be found. Here lower bound means that there exist a permutation that will take this many operations. Their goal is to find what the maximum number of operations assuming worst per
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by seles 16y ago
It seems to imply that once the link is clicked it downloads and runs the payload automatically, but this is rather hard to believe (I would guess that there is some user action required). Is the article correct?
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by seles 16y ago
Another problem with democracy: lets say there are 9 people and there are some dishes that need washing, one could propose a vote to make Bob always do the dishes every time for ever. If everyone votes in their best interest then Bob is scr
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by seles 16y ago
"Once you have constructors and you can statically ensure that every variable has a chance at initialization, you can start to escape one of the most unfortunate language misfeatures in wide use today: null" Question, can anyone think of a
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by seles 16y ago
I agree with you completely, but it is still a good article because it goes on to cover the importance of focus and utilizing your time effectively (which I need to work on). Like you I will not eat lunch alone, but the second half of the a
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by seles 16y ago
It's like an AI Koan: "One day a student came to Moon and said, 'I understand how to avoid using BIGNUMs! We will simply use floats!' Moon struck the student with a stick. The student was enlightened." Better would be ... Moon then struck
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by seles 16y ago
"Let's assume for the moment that Mary has no safety net; there are no friends she can ask to float her a loan, no family members that she can reach out to, etc." But this is almost always a false assumption. It would be better to borrow mo
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by seles 16y ago
Oh yes, that is correct
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by seles 16y ago
Is it just me or does that sound like a fun job, to answer stranger's strange requests?
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by seles 16y ago
You mean Homer Simpson? or was that episode a reference to an existing metaphor?
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by seles 16y ago
Could someone please explain to me how Groupon could possibly be worth $2 billion?? They aren't fully "mainstream" yet, and there service can easily be redeveloped. I have not used them yet, is there something I am missing here?
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by seles 16y ago
There's getting to be so many patents that it might be harder to determine if original software you've written is patented than actually developing it.
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by seles 16y ago
That is good advice for bike safety, but it really has nothing to do with the point of the article, that people think being just a dish washer is pathetic, but if you look close enough a person is more than just a two word job description.
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by seles 16y ago
Thanks
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by seles 16y ago
and http://golf.shinh.org/ accepts even more languages (80) but it is 'less refined'
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by seles 16y ago
Probably because I was too lazy to post a video, thanks :)
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by seles 16y ago
The existentialist's solution: throw all the cards in the trash and make two piles of zero.
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by seles 16y ago
Human powered planes already exist, using propellers.
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by seles 16y ago
This still does not make sense Onramp <-> Lane 1 : 2 Lane 1 <-> Lane 2 : 2 Lane 2 <-> Lane 3 : 2 Lane 3 <-> Lane 4 : 2 Lane 4 <-> Lane 5 : 2 Lane 5 <-> HOV : 8 So the total tr
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by seles 16y ago
There cannot be more lane changes into and/or out of the left most lane than the 2nd to left most lane (assuming no left exits) because all lane changes go through it. Furthermore it is fairly easy to get a sense of the best lane by just pa
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by seles 16y ago
Nice, but it isn't very good, lost to Fools Mate (it took a knight then got mated) (1 look ahead would see it, queen and bishop just attack pawn near king)
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by seles 16y ago
oh, this might help "Waves follow our boat as we meander across the lake, and turbulent air currents follow our flight in a modern jet. Mathematicians and physicists believe that an explanation for and the prediction of both the breeze and
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by seles 16y ago
what
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by seles 16y ago
pointless article it can be summarized in two sentences assumption: woman don't want to have sex, men do. conclusion: it is better for men if women are more promiscuous.
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by seles 17y ago
This is what at&t/apple does with their 'unlimited' iphone subscription. It might be unlimited but they try their best to stop you from using any actual bandwidth (tethering etc.) Google has had to take a lot shit lately from non free s
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by seles 17y ago
I think this could also be used to calculate the mode? lim n->0 argmin(x,sum(abs(x-s)^n))
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by seles 17y ago
This seems like such a good generalization that I almost can't believe it hasn't been discovered before. (Also nice to see an article where the author wants the material to be understandable instead of trying to impress us with unnecessary
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by seles 17y ago
p (Math.log(10)*999/Math.log(g=5**0.5/2+0.5)+g).ceil
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by seles 17y ago
All 10 questions were variants of the trolley problem. The problems were also poorly formed which is what made answering them difficult, not the actual moral dilema. For example, in the real trolly problem it is clear that you really only h

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