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by vinchuco 10y ago
As someone who had never heard the "self-documenting code" term, I imagined a machine-learning-assisted 'autocomplete' of sorts for code comments or a genius.com for code.
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Time Perception(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vinchuco 10y ago
With uses of that technological limit as ethically questionable as the question of how ethics limits technology's uses.
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When Pi is not 3.14 – PBS Infinite Series [video](youtube.com)
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Ted Kaczynski(en.wikipedia.org)
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Drinker Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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St. Petersburg Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vinchuco 10y ago
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the gre
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by vinchuco 10y ago
I think the commenter meant to have it "keep going forward" in the same manner as 2D but with some rotation involved. It's doable.
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by vinchuco 10y ago
Or the ones people pay attention to (particularly postmortem).
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by vinchuco 10y ago
Pint taken.
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by vinchuco 10y ago
May be slightly off-topic, but for a creative feat using similar mechanisms, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfznnKUwywQ
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by vinchuco 10y ago
There's a one-line formula that is supposed to capture most of these motions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid What always struck me as interesting is how some of them 'seem' like they're
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by vinchuco 10y ago
There is a name for this cognitive bias - 'Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon' or 'Frequency illusion'. "The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to a
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by vinchuco 10y ago
I don't have facebook and with an Android phone I had a similar creepily tailored advertising experience (google?) Fun additional: a family member using facebook, when I had one, was getting ads of Amazon products I had recently watche
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by vinchuco 10y ago
Programming music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk3BvNLeNgw
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Printers(eff.org)
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by vinchuco 10y ago
https://youtu.be/wMFPe-DwULM?t=28s
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Visualization of Top Chess Players Over Time(youtube.com)
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by vinchuco 10y ago
"(...) when should a theory be regarded as scientific?" - Science as Falsification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztmvtKLuR7I
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by vinchuco 10y ago
That's a statement, but not an argument.
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by vinchuco 10y ago
Fair point. But we'll eventually settle on some rules. The thought is like the following: people actually compose chess puzzles for fun, without regard to them appearing in an actual game: There's chess puzzle composition competit
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by vinchuco 10y ago
Sounds computationally intensive. It reminds me of an experiment I read about some time ago, tangentially: http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-r...
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by vinchuco 10y ago
It's an interesting question. It is easy to check when a position is unreachable, sometimes. For instance a white king on H8 and black Rooks on A7, A8 (unless I'm mistaken). It almost seems as if it is easier to find a position th
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by vinchuco 10y ago
It's meant to be left for interpretation. But I was thinking not changing the board size. Add pinned pieces, compose tactics, make the game tree as wide as possible.
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by vinchuco 10y ago
No, add a pawn.
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by vinchuco 10y ago
My wish was granted!
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by vinchuco 10y ago
I wish it had examples! I'd be more interested in a move that complicates the game. In fact, what is the most complicated position in chess? (Legal or not)
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by vinchuco 10y ago
On mobile, you have to click the "show full article" to, well, show the full article. It really irks me that not only this is unnecessary, but possibly devious, a dark design pattern: You want to see what's inside, but you h
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by vinchuco 10y ago
And be alone with my actual identity and have to deal with existential angst? I'd rather get upset about an issue I read to give my life some meaning /s

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