wronskian

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by wronskian 9y ago
RPC Consulting | .NET developers | South of Cambridge, UK | ONSITE | full-time Our company provides software and consultancy services to the insurance, banking and science sectors. We have our own software platform - Tyche, a high-performan
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by wronskian 9y ago
Definitely the best article title relative to the content, well done! Happy memories, too.
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by wronskian 10y ago
I wonder if you're thinking of this interview by Teller : http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-hi... "Make the trick more trouble than it's worth." I have read that article many
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by wronskian 10y ago
The Netherlands no longer uses the 1 or 2 cent coins - they are not accepted for payment, even if you have enough to make a round 5 cent amount.
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by wronskian 10y ago
The diff from the patch: - goto discard; + consume_skb(skb); + return 0; One of the rare cases in the wild where a goto really was considered harmful! ;-)
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by wronskian 10y ago
I saw this exact failure mode in the wild - a C++ Newton-Raphson implementation that relied on the order coming out of the mean calculation. In this case, the ordering put the N-R algorithm out and instability resulted. I seem to remember t
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by wronskian 10y ago
Those interested by this article may enjoying browsing through Hugh Hunt's other pieces - he's done some pretty amazing things in the name of popular engineering! http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/
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by wronskian 11y ago
10/10 but perhaps my sensing method would be considered cheating : the underlying noise throughout the whole track was noticeably more dithery/glitchy in one set of clips than the others, so I presumed that identified the 8-bit cl
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by wronskian 12y ago
It was originally British, yes: developed by Frank Hornby in Liverpool. It's now made in France. There are still avid constructors who prefer 'original' Meccano (red/green coloured metal) as it is supposedly better build
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by wronskian 13y ago
I've seen the film already - there have been a few screenings of it here in Cambridge, UK at the university maths department. (Indeed, I wasn't aware it hadn't been generally released!) It's an interesting idea and quite reasonably played o
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by wronskian 14y ago
Following the Superbowl ad, this got some extra coverage by Forbes and Discovery. http://www.forbes.com/sites/mahaatal/2013/02/04/axes-super-b... http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/super-bo...
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Hey, Lynx - women are astronauts, too(spacekate.com)
2 points by wronskian 14y ago|1 comments
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by wronskian 14y ago
Down for me here (UK, broadband provider is Eclipse) - looks like a DNS problem. isup.me also fails to resolve it.
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by wronskian 14y ago
Just to be clear, the 'final screen' shown in that article is a mock-up that's been doing the rounds; it wasn't shown on the actual BBC Ceefax service.