algolicious

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by algolicious 14y ago
Wrap your head around this one: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct... Also, I'd recommend taking a look at Magma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_computer_algebra_system
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by algolicious 14y ago
Has anyone tried Gimp for OS X? http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
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by algolicious 14y ago
But you can't actually simulate a TM on any machine with a fixed amount of memory. And any "special purpose" computing hardware would have at least a little memory. So I don't think that distinction works. Unless it only applies to machin
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by algolicious 14y ago
The best mirror I could find (nyud.net and Google let me down): http://substancedigital.com/2012/10/21/nokias-price-for-excl...
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by algolicious 14y ago
Could you explain what you mean by "to a lesser extent Android"? Android lets apps add widgets to the home screen, replace the home screen, replace the browser, run arbitrary background tasks, and so forth. You can even sideload apps and
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by algolicious 14y ago
I'm a little disappointed that Wirth doesn't mention one of the key reasons that financial institutions use decimal floating point: that binary floating point can't produce exact representations of powers of 10, such as 0.1, and you may wan
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by algolicious 14y ago
You can turn the pages using the volume buttons (enabled from Settings on the home screen). I reallly love that feature.
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by algolicious 14y ago
This is one of the best critiques so far of the decision. There are two sides to this trial. On the one side is the emotional appeal: Samsung copied Apple, and documents detail the extent to which Samsung imitated the iPhone. On the other
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by algolicious 14y ago
Click on the "More" link at the bottom.
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by algolicious 14y ago
Here's the ruling: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98367038/Galaxy-Tab-Injunction-Rul... The injunction is being granted based on this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889 It's a design patent granted in 2005 for an electronic devi
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by algolicious 14y ago
This article is missing a couple of facts: First, Apple has been designing its own "Ax" series of ARM chips with its purchase of PA Semi, currently with the A5/A5X. If Apple switched to an Intel chip, they would no longer have the flexibil
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by algolicious 14y ago
I looked twice to verify that she needed the wheelchair. I'm not quite sure why Pike wrote this. Was he afraid that the wheelchair concealed a weapon of some sort? But how can you visually verify that a person needs a wheelchair? I also
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by algolicious 14y ago
I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. It turns out that the author modeled the domain incorrectly. At least that incorrect model is completely explicit in the code. If it weren't spelled out explicitly, the coupling that the author
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by algolicious 14y ago
This was fun! (I only did the first two paragraphs.)
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by algolicious 14y ago
You are thinking of "homophone" rather than "homonym." Baseball bat and vampire bat are homonyms.
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by algolicious 14y ago
At runtime init, Go programs attempt to reserve 512mb of RAM. If they can’t do this, they crash. Go needs the space because it is garbage collected - presumably, all GC languages, or any program that takes a similar approach to memory mana
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by algolicious 14y ago
Facebook's testing practices and culture of developer accountability help to prevent serious bugs from being rolled out in production code. When a developer's code disrupts the website and necessitates a post-deployment fix, the incident i
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by algolicious 14y ago
I was interested in his response to the question, "What you dislike the most about Lisp?" I must say that the lack of static typing really gets in the way on larger projects. Being able to confidently change datatypes and function signatur
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by algolicious 14y ago
Here's the most interesting link I found after a few minutes of clicking (obligatory: I am not a doctor): http://saveourbones.com/calcium-heart-attack/
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by algolicious 14y ago
Google for the following phrase to find the site: "Run unmodified Access applications, right inside a web browser." (Edited to remove link to not affect Google juice)
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by algolicious 15y ago
Scott Aaronson recently wrote an informative article about his trip to D-Wave: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 Most interesting to me: "Geordie presented graphs that showed D-Wave’s quantum annealer solving its Ising spin problem
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by algolicious 15y ago
Reference counting does have runtime overhead, though. Incrementing and decrementing references as a reference gets passed around isn't free. If you have many small objects, the reference count itself may become a significant memory overh
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by algolicious 15y ago
Andy Hertzfeld used this same trick on the original Macintosh, in a move he called his "worst blunder": http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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by algolicious 15y ago
The paper tells us that Brzustowski and Burgeil already showed that a loss is forced for alternating S and Z pieces. But it is easy to see that you can get 1 line with S and Z simply by putting the thick part in the middle, and this is all
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by algolicious 15y ago
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puny "slight or inferior in power, size, or importance" In this case, they meant power, as in computational power.
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by algolicious 16y ago
Where did you read that? The linked story states that they were married at the time and that she filed for divorce in response to his snooping.
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by algolicious 16y ago
Nope, Apple had theirs behind glass as well. http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/video-iphone-in-person-be...
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by algolicious 16y ago
Doesn't work on my Droid with 2.2 either. I loaded it twice, over twelve hours apart, from different locations. Just shows a gray rectangle where the tickets should be (after showing the loading animated gif for several painful seconds) a
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by algolicious 16y ago
Actually, as an Ars commenter explains, Ars did kind of a bad job explaining NP. NP is the class of problems with an easily verified proof for existence, not the class of all exponentially solvable problems as they seem to imply (EXPTIME).
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by algolicious 16y ago
Gruber ignores the Droid, which has sold far more units than the N1, does not have the Pentile subpixel reduction, and has an 854x480 display. A 960x640 display would rock but given that the LCD is smaller than current iPhones, I think it

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