vignesh_m

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1. 31.▲
   by vignesh_m 8y ago

   Lol. Its just because its a highly divisible number. Saying basic multiplication is "esoteric" shows how little you expect of ancient civilisations. They estimate the circumference of the fuckin earth and you say its "esoteri
2. 32.▲
   by vignesh_m 8y ago

   3.1536 - thats way to inaccurate to be of any interest imo. Even 22/7 is a way better approximation
3. 33.▲
   by vignesh_m 8y ago

   That's basically because our definition of second is no longer based on the rotation of the earth. If it was it would be exactly that.
4. 34.▲
   Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump(nytimes.com)

   1 points by vignesh_m 8y ago|0 comments
5. 35.▲
   by vignesh_m 8y ago

   I dont really understand how those stats would help the company. Can anyone enlighten me? I only have a cursory understanding of how student loans work - students buy loans to pay college fees and stuff right.
6. 36.▲
   by vignesh_m 8y ago

   I'm very skeptical about the applicability of group theory to computer science - outside of the usual applications to counting/combinatorics and crypto/number theory.
7. 37.▲
   by vignesh_m 9y ago

   Wow that is long
8. 38.▲
   by vignesh_m 9y ago

   Contrary to what the title may imply, he doesnt shit on Office and say its a bad product.
9. 39.▲
   by vignesh_m 9y ago

   I've tried functional languages (Haskell) before and found them fun, but couldn't find a good project I can use them in. Can someone suggest a fun project, which can showcase the features of functional programming?
10. 40.▲
    by vignesh_m 9y ago

    I found http://r-statistics.co/ggplot2-Tutorial-With-R.html helpful to learn about the gglplot "grammar of graphs"
11. 41.▲
    by vignesh_m 9y ago

    If this is an implementation of ggplot2, what does it offer over http://ggplot.yhathq.com/ ? I don't mean to undermine your project, just wanted to know about significant differences.
12. 42.▲
    by vignesh_m 10y ago

    Congrats, pretty cool game. Any simple strategies you guys came up with?
13. 43.▲
    by vignesh_m 10y ago

    Are there distinct lines at 32k, 256k, 4M because of different levels of caches? I feel like 32k is the L1 cache and so on.
14. 44.▲
    by vignesh_m 11y ago

    this is a totally unbiased article in the The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.