alex_stoddard

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Logic programming is overrated, at least for logic puzzles (2013)(programming-puzzler.blogspot.com)
68 points by alex_stoddard 3y ago|42 comments
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by alex_stoddard 5y ago
It's an auto-immune disease with complex causality. It doesn't necessarily manifest at birth, the time to develop the auto-immune response and for it to become severe varies. For some individuals perhaps it never develops. The sam
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How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes(dragonman225.js.org)
664 points by alex_stoddard 5y ago|57 comments
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by alex_stoddard 5y ago
Another very entertaining series, with a much more SF bent, by Eric Flint, with Ryk E. Spoor is kicked of by the freely available 'Boundary'. https://www.baen.com/boundary.html (Like 1632 it also has a dreadful co
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by alex_stoddard 5y ago
I haven't fully grokked it myself. But it relates to the concept and implementation of a Lisp reader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_reader "Unlike most programming languages, Lisp supports parse-time exe
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by alex_stoddard 5y ago
They do specifically say single use plastics where I suppose a lot of applications are in food packaging. It just has to last significantly longer than the food spoilage time to be useful.
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by alex_stoddard 6y ago
Uninformed speculation: I would hypothesize the mRNA process could react faster to flu mutations, the current vaccines are kind of trying to guess which strains are going to be important in the next flu season. It is also possible the mRNA
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by alex_stoddard 6y ago
To me footnotes/endnotes exist as the least bad way of working with supplemental information within the constraints of the _printed_ page (i.e. it can't be dynamically re-rendered). I want my electronic documents to do it better,
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
Thank you kindly for providing the way to actually do the documented: "You can determine if make contains support for Guile by examining the .FEATURES variable; it will contain the word guile if Guile support is available." Unix -
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
This seems like two examples of errors converting decimal fractions to percentages in hacker news in one day. Very roughly it looks like they should have said 0.1 or 10%. 10% of combinded GDP is very much not an easy investment to make!
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
"Under-promotion" - deliberately not changing a pawn into a queen is very rare and the unique properties of the knight do matter tactically. Under-promotion not to a knight can matter because of stalemate. (Most under-promotion is
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/125/
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
Maybe I'm contrarian but I was deeply disappointed by The Matrix, mostly because I feel it wasted a fantastic premise and opportunity to explore such issues. I found its approach to the philosophical issues it touched on was facile and
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
It is on my to-read-someday list but Snow Crash was published in 1992!
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
Any recommendations for books written post 2000 that might bear comparison to Orwell's "1984" come 2070?
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by alex_stoddard 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) "The Solitaire cryptographic algorithm was designed by Bruce Schneier at the request of Neal Stephenson for use by field agents in his novel Cryptonomicon,
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by alex_stoddard 8y ago
Looks like it is implemented in python(2) with use of the stdlib sqlite3 module. https://github.com/harelba/q/blob/master/bin/q
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by alex_stoddard 8y ago
What are the decent options as of today and from what supplier/retailer? I've been struggling to find exact that - a decent dumb cellular phone.
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by alex_stoddard 8y ago
Am I correct to assume all the designs are for US Letter paper? (And not the A4 size common in the UK and elsewhere. http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/a4-vs-us-letter/ ) I remember the frustration as kid getti
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by alex_stoddard 8y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis/afm-surveillance.... > All of the AFM cases have tested negative for poliovirus.
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by alex_stoddard 8y ago
Does the rocket equation still bite to hard if fuel production is outside Earth's gravity well?
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
It's nice to see an editor for the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) has a sense of humor. I wasn't expecting to see Pratchett T. as the first citation in a (somewhat) serious medical journal article.
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
I'm inferring from the article the problem is spatial/temporal resolution of the _radar_ currently being used for speed sensing for adaptive cruise control. There are lots of objects that are stationary and near to the road but no
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
I believe they made their own "good enough" clock out of a loop in a webworker.
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
That is not my understanding. The current use of the word "patent" has become rather ironic compared to its historical meaning. "Patent" just means "open", in this case openly declared, not secret. Ideally &quo
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
But to stretch the analogy a bit further would it be fair to say that impact factor is very like sexual selection for extreme display traits that otherwise are detrimental to the wellbeing of the species? Yes impact factor matters to curren
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
I have only skimmed the paper but one thing I don't see any discussion of is whether komi (the handicap given to white for going second) is correct. They do say the rules used for all games, including self-play, set komi consistently t
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
In my church experience part of the annual general meeting isn't imitating a corporation meeting - it _is_ a corporation meeting. This is because the church has wisely put its earthly assets (mostly the building and operating money) un
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
That sounds very plausible. I would be very interested in sources for this. How many accounts of wolves raised as pets exist and when and where have wolves had to be euthanized? Is there a distinction between accounts where the euthanasia o
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by alex_stoddard 9y ago
Data on national scale, like the eia stuff you link to, is vital to understanding and debate. What I realize I don't understand is the meaning of "Generation at Utility Scale Facilities" in the header of the table. What does

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