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by simonb 17y ago
What is interesting in research such as this is the cognitive science aspect. Both from theoretical and methodological perspective. Not only does it explore how deterministic we are, measurements in what what is essentially a hostile enviro
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Using Neural Networks to Model the Behavior and Decisions of Gamblers(scribd.com)
1 points by simonb 17y ago|2 comments
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Hyperlinking Reality via Camera Phones(vicos.fri.uni-lj.si)
4 points by simonb 17y ago|1 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
I think the phenomena is still very much present, albeit it might have moved from natural sciences to humanities (probably because humanities are easier to present as edgy whilst keeping them accessible). Take for instance philosopher Zizek
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Experience Report: Erlang in Acoustic Ray Tracing [pdf](homepage.cs.uri.edu)
2 points by simonb 17y ago|1 comments
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Why Google's software approach won't work for smartphones or the enterprise(blogs.zdnet.com)
1 points by simonb 17y ago|1 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
Refinements in Rebol http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/concepts/funcs-evaluating.html#...
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by simonb 17y ago
There are pathological cases where it can be mathematically rational to play. There just needs to be a sufficiently long streak of no winners (assuming pots accumulate).
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by simonb 17y ago
Moral of the story: buy tickets at "weird" times, to maximize your expected utility (assuming the pot is split among all wining-ticket holders). Same reasoning applies to lotteries where you pick numbers. Avoid primes, patterns, sequences t
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Blather about FPU optimization & threading with SBCL(skas-blog.blogspot.com)
3 points by simonb 17y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
Somewhat related; kites as wind turbines: http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_futur...
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Kite-like sail cuts ship fuel consumption up to 35%(gas2.org)
1 points by simonb 17y ago|1 comments
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The Ultimate Lock Picker(wired.com)
144 points by simonb 17y ago|14 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
Google would like a word with you.
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by simonb 17y ago
From their page [ http://mill.ucsd.edu/index.php?page=Datasets&subpage=Tas... ]: Scoring Predictions Evaluation Metric: The evaluation metric for the E-commerce Transaction Anomaly Classification (Easy) is lift at 20%. If S is the 20% o
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by simonb 17y ago
I take it you didn't bother with things such as optimization and type declaration in lisp. Also great job on comparing what is essentially an interpreter to a compiler. edit: http://www.cliki.net/Performance%20Benchmarks
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by simonb 17y ago
If this were reverse engineering of some obscure long out of use protocol it would be heralded as great hacking/fascinating detective work/interesting puzzle.
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by simonb 17y ago
The best advice I ever heard about luck was: "Be prepared to get lucky." If only luck can save you, do everything as if you will get lucky. Not because of positive attitude and stuff like that but purely so you can take full advantage of a
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by simonb 17y ago
Juxtaposition Mathematica works pretty much the same way as in Fortress. When you multiply a number with a variable you don't even need the whitespace (the pretty printer will however make a "half-space" to ease reading).
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by simonb 17y ago
Isn't this what social hacks are about? To use the dynamics/mechanisms of the system to your own advantage.
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by simonb 17y ago
If you routinely forget your password it doesn't really matter if you always get a new/different password, now does it? edit: not that this is the best way to go (see other comments) but it's still miles better than what they have now, with
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by simonb 17y ago
Debate is another alternative. Besides speaking in front an audience it also teaches you how to articulate your thoughts and engage your listeners which is invaluable for presentations and the like.
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by simonb 17y ago
Wouldn't Hemingway be a better choice?
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Design Fiction(interactions.acm.org)
3 points by simonb 17y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 18y ago
But at the same time this junk variable is code-as-documentation professing the incomplete destructuring is intentional. You could go a step further and have a special ignore symbol, (for instance * ) like most pattern matching languages/li
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by simonb 18y ago
But on the other hand the author seems to be accomplished in the financial field. From his site: "He quit school at 17 and started his first own business in the financial field, publishing analysis on the financial markets and managing fun
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Partial application in CL(blarneyfellow.wordpress.com)
1 points by simonb 18y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 18y ago
Having length as an indicator of quality intuitively (i.e. I don't have statistically significant counter-examples) seems wrong to me. It goes directly against what hacking stands for (quick, dirty and yet elegant solutions).
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by simonb 18y ago
One thing his historical comparison completely neglects is there was a time when people actually cared about performance (or rather they were so constrained by it they were forced to care). On the other hand most of these one-week wonders s
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by simonb 18y ago
But on the other hand requiring/confirming email raises opportunity cost, loosing you users to engage in the first place.

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