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by zandorg 18y ago
I just know I've never found a prime with this method, that PFGW didn't say was a prime. n^2-2 doesn't always pass the Fermat test, but if it does, it is always a prime. I think it's base 2. Is that an okay answer? I'll clarify in this thre
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Finding Large Primes by calculating n^2-2, Checking Validity with Legendre (decompiler.org)
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933.
by zandorg 18y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. I'll post about this to HN soon.
934.
by zandorg 18y ago
I have a result which shows that a squared number minus 2, if put through the fermat test (modular exponentiation), is always prime. I got some 30k digit primes this way, but I couldn't get mathematicians interested in it. They'd just ignor
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by zandorg 18y ago
I'll mention his refrigerator, and the atomb bomb was surely worth money.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Also, the Marble Madness construction set. And most ridiculously, Boulderdash IV had a constructor. Me and a friend made levels so complex, we forgot how to complete them. It was all to do with timing (!).
937.
by zandorg 18y ago
You can now take photos of documents with a digital camera and the current high resolutions.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Yes, sometimes it doesn't load, shows a blank page. I wonder if it's seeing malware from my machine, but clearly not given other eyewitness accounts.
939.
by zandorg 18y ago
How about a lottery where everyone pays, but where the winner gets loads of free karma?
940.
by zandorg 18y ago
If you're friends with Bill, I'm sure he'll find the time for free.
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by zandorg 18y ago
You can cover any song you like and publish it. Just contact the Song Rights Organisation that deals with that song. ASCAP is one. I once covered the Outrun theme, and managed to find the guy who composed it, who said go ahead. (When he hea
942.
by zandorg 18y ago
But no K. Eric Drexler?
943.
by zandorg 18y ago
Maybe Mechanical Turk could help with bulletin boards, etc.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Brewster Kahle (Archive.org) made a small fortune by selling WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), which made each machine a search engine, and used a protocol to request from all engines. Developed in the 80s. Unfortunately, the Web has gon
945.
by zandorg 18y ago
I think you could cross-reference different sources to error-check the incomplete DNA.
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by zandorg 18y ago
From my experience posting, I'm learning more about what's acceptable, and sometimes I even delete a post that's dragging down my karma. But more interesting - With the experience of posting here, I should be able to write a press release f
947.
by zandorg 18y ago
Seeing as it's Winamp, owned by AOL, I have to say - Me too (uses Winamp)
948.
by zandorg 18y ago
Maybe he's wearing the old school tie to get more VC cash.
949.
by zandorg 18y ago
Loads, but Revolution OS for Stallman fanservice, Johnny Mnemonic (which everyone criticises, but Gibson did write the script), Sneakers DVD commentary (Canadian R1 DVD), and I'll be cute and say Ferris Bueller for his hacks.
950.
by zandorg 18y ago
Also, do lower death rates mean lower birth rates? I think so - the basic idea being people have less kids. That's because having more kids is an insurance policy for a high death rate.
951.
by zandorg 18y ago
Even Indiana Jones has a teaching job.
952.
by zandorg 18y ago
Give more programmers/developers their own tech columns. They're the best people to know the cutting edge.
953.
by zandorg 18y ago
I took an AI course because I wanted to learn. I learned other technologies in the non-AI modules. I learned Lisp (aka Scheme), SQL, Prolog, CORBA, Java (I already knew C++), and Business (etc). My grades aren't good enough to get a job (I
954.
by zandorg 18y ago
My point was that the Python sketch based on the tinned food turned into the e-mail SPAM meme. The sketch was the basis of the e-mail term, in other words, in computing folklore, by saying that e-mail SPAM comes with everything. I'm not s
955.
by zandorg 18y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the copyright holders aren't Cleese & co - I'd have thought it was the BBC, payed for via the TV license in the 1960's.
956.
by zandorg 18y ago
The purpose of the reference count is to only deallocate memory once. You create it (copy constructor, count = 1), you pass it to a function (count = 2), come out of the function (destructor, count = 1) and finally return from the original
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by zandorg 18y ago
I don't know if many people realise it, but the use of the term 'spam' came from a Monty Python sketch originally. It's not too difficult to correlate what they meant: You can have whatever you want, as long as it's with spam.
958.
by zandorg 18y ago
It's a bit hard to explain, but it's a copy constructor. Not sure of all the details right now, but I think when it is passes to another function (as a parameter), the reference count goes up, and when it returns (destructor), it goes down.
959.
by zandorg 18y ago
I wrote a C++ class (compatible with STL's vector class), and it had an internal reference counter. If the counter went to 0, it would de-allocate the memory and shut the vector down. It works pretty well, and avoids the need for a garbage
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by zandorg 18y ago
The site was so slow to render that I gave up almost immediately.

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