Smirlouf

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by Smirlouf 17y ago
Strong A.F., as it is defined by researchers, is any artificial flier that is capable of passing the Tern Test (developed by A.F. pioneer Alan Tern), which involves convincing an average bird that the artificial flier is in fact a flying b
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by Smirlouf 17y ago
From the FAQ: == Why did you do this ? I am not especially interested in the digits of Pi, but in the various algorithms involved to do arbitrary-precision arithmetic. Optimizing these algorithms to get good performance is a difficult progr
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by Smirlouf 17y ago
He's also behind QEMU (cross-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator/dynamic recompiler/virtualizer), TCC (the Tiny C Compiler) and various other projects. see http://bellard.org/
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by Smirlouf 17y ago
Objective C, sure, but cross platform, thanks to Cocotron, an open source implementation of the Cocoa API. http://www.cocotron.org/ It's the first Cocotron-based project I see featured on HN, although it's not the first success story that
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by Smirlouf 17y ago
There's definitely some real world trolling at hand here (although I don't know whether it comes from Haagen-Dazs, from the journalist, or from both of them).
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by Smirlouf 17y ago
That "hate" thing comes from your Utu project, I guess. While I like the idea, I'm not sure it's a good idea to label it as such in the interface. You might also have a hard time figuring out the genuine flaggings from the ones made by spam
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by Smirlouf 17y ago
He uses the geometric mean (the Nth root of the product of N numbers), which is mathematically correct in this case.