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NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online(inverse.com)
57 points by tomcdonnell 7y ago|1 comments
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Formula 1 Top Drivers (statistical analysis)(f1metrics.wordpress.com)
2 points by tomcdonnell 7y ago|0 comments
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Is Inequality Inevitable?(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by tomcdonnell 7y ago|2 comments
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by tomcdonnell 7y ago
Please consider sharing this email exchange with lettersofnote.com. I am not affiliated in any way with that site, but I have found it to be a great source of inspiration and a reminder that very successful people are still people, and ofte
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World's best table tennis robot vs. skilled player(youtu.be)
2 points by tomcdonnell 7y ago|0 comments
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Initiative Q – Q is tomorrow's payment network(initiativeq.com)
5 points by tomcdonnell 8y ago|0 comments
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Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption(electricitymap.org)
2 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia – Phoenix Lights(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomcdonnell 9y ago
This is an exam practise website targeted at high school students. I collaborated with my father in developing it. The tech stack is PHP/MySQL/Javascript. No frameworks, just jquery and google charts. Everything else is custom
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Show HN: Autotutor - High school maths/physics exam practise website(autotutor.com.au)
1 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|1 comments
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UFOs- We are beyond reasonable doubt says former head of real life X files(theage.com.au)
4 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomcdonnell 9y ago
Here's my command-line minesweeper solver, in c++. It is not optimal, but does a pretty good job of solving expert sized minefields. I never worked out what percentage of minefields it solves, because I planned on doing some more wor
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Global Dimming (2014)(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|1 comments
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Japan – Marathon Monks(abc.net.au)
1 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomcdonnell 9y ago
Here's a video of the 88 skip record mentioned in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KfuErAcj0
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Has the Internet Killed Real Estate Agents Yet?(lemire.me)
2 points by tomcdonnell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomcdonnell 9y ago
I wrote a tool to help with finding good anagrams of the multi-word sort by a semi-automated process. It is limited to anagrams of 15 letters or less, but useful for finding multi-word anagrams from names. http://tomcdonnell.net
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by tomcdonnell 10y ago
I wrote a javascript game based on anagrams as part of a 'get to know your team' exercise at a previous job. It was a weekend project. The game asks the user to guess the name of a team member from anagrams of that name displayed
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Neural Net Combined Images (Russian Site)(ostagram.ru)
3 points by tomcdonnell 10y ago|0 comments
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What went wrong with the Australian census(eftm.com.au)
2 points by tomcdonnell 10y ago|0 comments
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by tomcdonnell 10y ago
I liked Bill's advice on how to speed up meetings: “Every time you say ‘thirteen,’ I’ll know that what that means is that all you want to do is what the customer wants. And for every one of these other gibberish slogans, we can also ge
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Traffic Simulation(traffic-simulation.de)
144 points by tomcdonnell 10y ago|21 comments
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by tomcdonnell 13y ago
Why Sass indeed, when all that can be done with Sass, can be done with plain old PHP? Example: style.css.php <?php header('Content-Type: text/css'); $brandColor = "#fc3;\n"; $defaultStyles = <&
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by tomcdonnell 13y ago
I consider economics to be more like a branch of philosophy than a science. The way to judge a good economic theory from bad one is to evaluate the soundness of its arguments. Historical data can never confirm or refute an economic theory
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by tomcdonnell 13y ago
Here's how I do type checking in Javascript. function doStuffWithAVarietyOfParameters(s, a, b, i, ni, p) { var f = 'contractCategoriesAndAddExpandButtons()'; UTILS.checkArgs(f, arguments, ['string',
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by tomcdonnell 14y ago
Another option for wealthy individuals is to continue investing their wealth into their companies, with the expectation that the indirect economic effect of doing business as usual will have a greater positive effect on the poor and needy t