andrewstellman

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by andrewstellman 5y ago
> Teaching how to code should be about problem-solving and effectively using the tools of a programming language to solve it. Say for example modeling a card game. Even better if the example is a continuous improvement starting from the
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Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac and Unity (& win a free book)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by andrewstellman 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
I'm seeing several people asking what RDF is useful for. If you're curious, I use it for basketball analytics: https://github.com/andrewstellman/pbprdf Here's an article about my system, pbprdf: https:&
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Tower of Silence(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|0 comments
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The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review(healthfeedback.org)
1 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
> The team realized that the process could be reversed: given a computer model of a 3D object, the researchers calculated what it would look like from many different angles, and then fed the resulting 2D images into a ordinary slide pro
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
> And unlike with object recognition that uses cameras, there are no privacy concerns, or need to maintain line-of-sight or good lighting conditions. Radar works through different materials and in the dark as well as the light. Wait, w
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
Well, yes, you're right – like beauty, readability is in the eye of the beholder. I've been writing a ton of Scala code lately, and my version is very Scala-like, so it looks better to me. That said, I think there are several adva
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
I've been looking for an example that shows how pattern matching can make code much both compact and readable. I think this does nicely. Here's an example in Scala: (1 to 100).map(i => (i % 3, i % 5) match { case (0, 0)
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
I remember it running autonomously on the little roads in Schenley Park, which were wide just enough for the vehicle but not open to traffic. Unfortunately, I never learned what happened to the jogger.
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
When I was studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon in the '90s, I played bass in a band, and the guitar player was a grad student at the Robotics Institute working on the autonomous vehicle project, the reason CMU was part of the
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
This is such a great story. Congratulations on turning things around! https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/107722796317793484...
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New England Journal of Medicine photo series of medical anomalies(nejm.org)
4 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|1 comments
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
I've known people who lived a life very similar to the one this person describes: moving from town to town, making art wherever they go, meeting new people, floating from relationship to relationship, not much money or stuff to their n
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Antinomianism – “to the pious, all is allowed”(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
The vast majority of players won't realize that they can run untrusted code just by typing a few characters into a chat window. To be fair, most chat windows don't work that way.
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The Chymistry of Isaac Newton(webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu)
1 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
One of the biggest misconceptions about markets is that the most recent trade price is the current value. But that's not actually true – it's approximately true in heavily traded markets (like S&P 500 stocks). But for a much l
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Shibuya 109 emoji(emojipedia.org)
2 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|0 comments
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Understanding C#: Use System.Console to build text-mode games (2010)(web.archive.org)
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Lactose content in typical Italian Gorgonzola cheese: a pilot study (2012)(link.springer.com)
1 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
"Practical" is right – a seemingly "theoretical" exploit turns out to have serious practical implications. This is a really well-written article with lots of examples. Excellent work!
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Kaomoji: Japanese Emoticons(kaomoji.ru)
13 points by andrewstellman 8y ago|5 comments
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Thagomizer(en.wikipedia.org)
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
Yep. Here's the line that prints it – open a new Chrome tab (ymmv w/ other browsers, definitely looks weird in Safari), open developer tools, and paste it into the console: console.log("%c\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
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52-hertz whale(en.wikipedia.org)
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Patrick Stewart was mistakenly cast for Dune and had no idea who Sting was(syfy.com)
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by andrewstellman 8y ago
This article talks about my open source RDF basketball analytics project: https://github.com/andrewstellman/pbprdf The author links to the Hacker News thread where he learned about it: https://news.ycombinat
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NBA analytics and RDF graphs: Game, data, metadata evolution, and Occam's razor(zdnet.com)
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Distracted people can be 'smell blind'(eurekalert.org)
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