tim_hutton

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by tim_hutton 12y ago
Another example: the common meaning of words. These strings of letters only mean what we want them to mean. You'd think it would lead to chaos without a central authority but it doesn't, it's perfectly stable. In fact more st
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Randall, are you stalking me? I posted about this a few days ago: http://ferkeltongs.livejournal.com/36976.html
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
More information: Analog clocks have always annoyed me, so I decided to make my own. This is the logical solution I think. There's only one hand, which moves round once a day and shows where the sun is on the map. In the photo it is ne
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This is how analog clocks should be. With a polar projection of the world.(imgur.com)
7 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|2 comments
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It’s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously(wired.com)
2 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|0 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Here is the thing I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbOQjEiI9A As a Ready file: https://reaction-diffusion.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Ready/Pa...
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Oh, that's a nice idea. I'm going to go and implement that in Ready. ( https://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion/ )
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Cutting up a circle to make a square. How close can we get?(math.stackexchange.com)
1 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|0 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
I managed about half of his final puzzle, from November 16th. Even solved the "nil by mouth" one without making the connection. Now I am sad.
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
There's a great talk about the coming "War on General Purpose Computing": http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
"While standing around at the back of morning assembly Higgs noticed a name that appeared more than once on the school's honours board. Higgs wondered who PAM Dirac was and read up on the former pupil. He learned that Paul Dirac w
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Life 'originated from space' claim scientists(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|0 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Title as submitted: "Mailpile is funded - secure email for everyone"
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Mailpile – taking e-mail back(indiegogo.com)
334 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|151 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Keep going with Project Euler. It's not long before the brute force approach stops working. On later problems you will find many ways to solve them but very few that return an answer in less than a week, say.
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
For a better demo of this, download Golly and open Wireworld/primes.mc. Start it playing and hit + a few times to increase the speed. http://golly.sourceforge.net/ Golly has other cellular automata computers too, in th
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Watch the Crab Nebula expanding, over 13 years.(plus.google.com)
4 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|0 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
The article says it's a mystery but then nails it: "In line with Google’s vision to organize the world’s information, the focus on Google+ seems to be shifting to content more than relationships. ... I wonder if Google is more in
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Two parabolic mirrors, to refocus the beam: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgXAAkAbIBEwGxASYA/wABsQEoAb...
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
More context about how FPGAs compare with GPGPU: http://blog.streamingcores.com/index.php?/archives/20-Progra...
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
This. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/05/0... (Local discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5880156 ) Lawrence Lessig for President?
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Other common words as scanned upside-down: "jxau" = "next" : http://www.google.com/search?q="jxau"&tbm=bks Image: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=agwpOfP2zI4C&pg=RA4-
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
via Ed Pegg, Jr.: http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/16dt8i/se... ;
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Google sometimes scans books upside-down by mistake...(google.com)
3 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|2 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Now only 1.3x slower than native on one large-ish benchmark (box2d): http://youtu.be/qrf9ONmtXbM (I love the comparison he makes to evolution at the end. Yes, the process may give ugly creatures sometimes but they work .)
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Does NaCl/PNaCl have a future now we've seen what Emscripten/ASM.js can do?
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Raspberry Pi + Lego Mindstorms = robots without the soldering(kickstarter.com)
1 points by tim_hutton 13y ago|0 comments
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by tim_hutton 13y ago
Request: tell me the longest route that is downhill all the way.
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What made you realize that math is beautiful?(math.stackexchange.com)
1 points by tim_hutton 14y ago|1 comments
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NVidia releases Visual Studio add-on for Android development on Tegra chips(developer.nvidia.com)
3 points by tim_hutton 14y ago|0 comments

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