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by ynd 18y ago
I removed mating in the end because it made the program converge slower. I'm glad that got you interested in Clojure!
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by ynd 18y ago
I love the evolution of McCarthy!
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Clojure: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in 250 beautiful lines(npcontemplation.blogspot.com)
66 points by ynd 18y ago|31 comments
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by ynd 18y ago
I don't see it.
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by ynd 18y ago
This is not cheating. Nothing surprising here. Of course you can do statement-based code, like in any language that supports I/O(Haskell included). That's a hard fact and it isn't what functional programming is about.
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by ynd 18y ago
That was humor :) The rest is funnier. Give it a try.
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by ynd 18y ago
I bet they were looking for extensibility. I wonder if they ever thought of providing two interfaces. 1. The first is the common case. Document doc = new DocumentBuilder().parse("test.xml"); 2. The second is more cumbersome but pro
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by ynd 18y ago
No smugness intended. This just has to be mentionned: My Seth Godin decline letter. Thoughts?, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=398293
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by ynd 18y ago
I play the guitar. But I wouldn't call myself a musician just yet. Love music though.
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by ynd 18y ago
Inline comments organize comments around the subjects of a post. That's neat for code. Not so for discussions I think. Inline comments make it hard to read all the comments at once. And I often care more about that than being able to select
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by ynd 18y ago
# Here's a less crude rewrite # It reflects conditional probability better def boy_girl_problem(): from random import choice families = {} for i in range(1000): families[i] = [] families[i].append(choice(['BOY',
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by ynd 18y ago
Evolution of Mona Lisa in JavaScript & Canvas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036
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by ynd 18y ago
# The hard part: THIS IS AN 'A POSTERIORI' PROBLEM. # The fact as ALREADY happened. # BG/GB being DIFFERENT is NOT THE TWIST. # Whether they are or not it will amount to 50% total. # TWIST: BB is not possible. def boy_girl_problem():
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by ynd 18y ago
If your current job makes you happy, then I think it's crazy, given the 6 figure salary.
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by ynd 18y ago
why?
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by ynd 18y ago
for example by using HSV comparision for fitness I tried with HSB. It didn't produce good results. The image was always too dark. In HSB, colors that are far apart in our perception can have close distance. For example two colors with the
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CUSEC Montreal 2009: Dan Ingalls, Richard Stallman, Avi Bryant(2009.cusec.net)
2 points by ynd 18y ago|0 comments
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by ynd 18y ago
Accurate! I classified myself as INTP after reading the descriptions. My-Type classified me as INTP after I took the test.
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by ynd 18y ago
Why are you defending this thread so bad?
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by ynd 18y ago
I recommend a VPS with slicehost.com at 20$ month, with Nginx to serve static files and fastcgi for Django. Nginx+FastCGI is the answer to the memory constraints(256mb). There are multiple plan you can update to. And since it's a VPS, updat
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Software is about stories, not code(blog.bumblebeelabs.com)
2 points by ynd 18y ago|0 comments
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by ynd 18y ago
Congratulations. The hits are dead on for obscure subjects.
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by ynd 18y ago
I feel the same. But I started to change my ways so I don't become too isolated.
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by ynd 18y ago
What?
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by ynd 18y ago
Meanwhile use http://searchyc.com/
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by ynd 18y ago
oops. If only there was a delete/edit button.
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by ynd 18y ago
I am looking for banner exchange sites for my startup. Your site was interesting at first but there are two drawbacks. You don't give free credits on registration. We want to use banner exchange to jumpstart our site. We don't have users. W
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Startup Marketing Advice.
1 points by ynd 18y ago|2 comments
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Beyond Procedural programming(npcontemplation.blogspot.com)
2 points by ynd 18y ago|0 comments
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by ynd 18y ago
"First it is necessary to thoroughly understand the properties and limitations of the materials to be used (for turbine blades, for example), and tests are begun in experimental rigs to determine those." I love this approach to engineering.

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