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by te_platt 10y ago
Funny. He actually calls it Damascus Foil in the video.
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by te_platt 10y ago
Did you ever use Lotus Notes? I agree that iTunes is poorly designed but you can't just toss out "worst UX design ever!" without old Lotus Notes users taking exception.
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by te_platt 10y ago
Exactly. A good example would be a set of co-linear points. Even for N=1,000,000 if all the points are at (n,0) on the plane then it's pretty trivial to find the solution.
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by te_platt 10y ago
Yeah, that was a bit awkwardly written. I tried looking up more info on it but got worried the article itself was some kind of meta test to measure human intelligence and decided to just move on...
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by te_platt 11y ago
Many years ago I was asked how to convert a .gif file to a .wav file. I remember taking the time to patiently explain that it just doesn't work that way. Looks like I owe someone an apology.
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by te_platt 11y ago
Very nice. Although opening IE and trying to go to http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 gave an error. Go figure...
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Homemade wooden framed motorcycle(facebook.com)
2 points by te_platt 11y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 11y ago
This is a great writeup on a simple bit of math that violates common sense expectations. Consider you need to go on a 100 mile trip and want to average 100 miles per hour. Conditions are bad and for the first 50 miles you only average 50 m
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Low water in Great Salt Lake reveals ‘rocks that are alive’(sltrib.com)
2 points by te_platt 11y ago|0 comments
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The Wisdom of Peanuts(tabletmag.com)
1 points by te_platt 11y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 11y ago
One movie I've always had a hard time categorizing is Groundhog Day. I went through the 37 plots listed and still don't see a good match. Does achieving enlightenment count as a plot?
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by te_platt 11y ago
From the article: "They also didn't have any protection circuitry on them, but I figured that if my car burst into flames halfway down the track, it would totally be worth it." That's the spirit!
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by te_platt 11y ago
Thank you, please understand your lovely response is zero percent correct, thanks. 95/100
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by te_platt 11y ago
Proud father comment here. Last year my son's school had a DARE essay writing contest. Knowing that I favor legalizing drugs he showed me his submission before turning it in. I should note we had a good conversation about why I thin
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by te_platt 11y ago
I know this is kind of weak but I have a hard time reading it other than "No To Slate".
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by te_platt 11y ago
The article was so calmly and with such a good description of risk that it actually felt weird to me. Its just so common to get stories so deeply committed to "If it saves just one child's life..." without considering the co
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by te_platt 11y ago
I think you changed the question. Before you go to sleep you know you have a 50% chance of waking up to heads and a 50% chance of waking up to tails twice. When you wake up you haven't learned anything so those probabilities can'
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by te_platt 11y ago
Your reframing of the question changes the problem. Let A be the probability of Heads (1/2) and B be the probability you are asked (1/2) then P(B|A) is 1/3. So the probability the coin came up heads is P(A|B) = P(B|A) * P(A)
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by te_platt 11y ago
Well, I guess that's one way. Wouldn't it be easier to just not get too worked up about other people's comments?
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by te_platt 11y ago
In the late 80s I flew from Santiago, Chile to Antofagasta on a quite nice LAN Chile 737. There were about 10 passengers. One of the best flights I've ever been on. I'm not sure what the need was to the government to keep that
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by te_platt 11y ago
Except that whispering has a tendency to increase attention. Maybe speed up the reading?
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by te_platt 11y ago
That is a well written answer. I knew the material presented but I still found it a fun read. With all the crap that goes around, sometimes it's just nice to see the internet living up to its potential.
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by te_platt 11y ago
Maybe a better title would be "People have a funny sense of what is relevant." That is, people have complicated ways of placing value on things. In the case of scaling the test to 137 points so the average comes out closer to 10
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by te_platt 11y ago
I don't think utility is quite the point... "Combo Breaker is a motorized, battery powered, 3D printed, Arduino-based combination lock cracking device. It is portable, open source, 3D models provided, and exploits a new technique
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by te_platt 11y ago
Reminds me of tagging along with my older brothers to mow lawns. After a few hours of weeding and taking my turn at the push mower they would take me to get a Slurpee. My own Slurpee that I didn't have to share! Later in high school do
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by te_platt 11y ago
Not that long ago. A copyright term of life plus 70 years would mean that protection ended in 1980. Well, 1980 seems like a long time ago now but I was there.
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by te_platt 11y ago
Having just moved to the interviewer side I appreciate the remarks about wanting the interviewee to succeed. I know how stressful it can be doing an interview and really do try to make it something where I can judge the ability to code, no
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by te_platt 11y ago
What is the comical witticism referred to in the post script?
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by te_platt 12y ago
What I got from the article: "Save the world" = really, really hard. "Improve the world" = challenging, but doable. It seems like I have my "save the world" visions as I'm getting ready for bed and trying
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by te_platt 12y ago
The idea is that if there is any bijection at all between the two sets then they are the same "size". So you can make all kinds of relations between two sets that are not bijections but once you find one you have satisfied the de

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