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by fengwick3 9y ago
Subsequent versions contain more algorithms and details. Some subtler optimizations are also mentioned in later books.
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by fengwick3 10y ago
A lot of people here seem to misunderstand the nature of the hacks that these laws are targetting. The intention here is to punish those who abuse these hacks to gain a competitive edge when playing against others, which can be extremely si
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Singapore's public service to adopt Workplace(channelnewsasia.com)
3 points by fengwick3 10y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 10y ago
If anybody is curious about the physics, the principle he described is pretty similar to the Holographic Principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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by fengwick3 10y ago
One assumption not explicitly explained is that the prisoners can identify the boxes by their order, since they are arranged in a line. So, the prisoners first agree among themselves that box number x should correspond to which prisoner, an
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by fengwick3 10y ago
I beg to differ. Math olympiad problems are typically short and concise, and mathematical phrasing, even when expressed in English, typically has clear bijections to equivalent terms in other languages.
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No internet for Singapore's public service workstations(bbc.com)
1 points by fengwick3 10y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 10y ago
Hmm I wonder if this will drastically affect his spatial reasoning abilities.
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Well, the motivations to attend hackathons don't seem to be about winning. Many of us students attend hackathons knowing that the chances of winning something is marginal at best, yet we still regularly attend for the singular reason o
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Interesting points, but minor correction here. Typing Chinese efficiently has to do with the input method. Using pinyin as you suggest is actually hopelessly slow as you would have to first recall the precise pronunciation of the word (the
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Why scientific studies can't be reproduced(qz.com)
7 points by fengwick3 11y ago|2 comments
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Chrome for 32 bit ubuntu discontinued(xda-developers.com)
3 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 11y ago
> Science is all about reproducibility Can this really be said in all fairness? What of the flashes of brilliance, the striking insights into understanding seemingly inexplicable phenomena? The discovery of the structure of benzene, the
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by fengwick3 11y ago
I think you are a little hasty in assuming that the author had the popular misconception that Einstein was bad at math. Certainly, Einstein was much better at math than the average man, but among his fellow physicists, not to mention the ha
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Paper on the 5 axioms: http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA... It looks familiar actually; it could be posted on HN or had generated an initial pop science hype wave when it was first publi
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Wow this sounds like it could be something straight out of Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler".
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Conway's Cosmological Theorem(mathworld.wolfram.com)
3 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 11y ago
I don't think you seem to understand the argument here. Einstein is a prime example of a theorist whose bold theories predicted verifiable results, such as the Einstein Cross. The problem with modern theorists, as the article and the p
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The Tale of Two Wunderkinds(qz.com)
1 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 11y ago
This article, with its bold assertions and dubious use of evidence, seems to be written by someone capable precisely the wild and imaginative leaps need to appreciate modern art. That aside, is it really true that high culture was part of t
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Look and say sequences(mathworld.wolfram.com)
2 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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Contest Management System for Competitive Programming(cms-dev.github.io)
1 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 11y ago
> Incorrect. If your company were to pay you the same amount as they profit off of you, you wouldn't be sticking around for very long at that company. That's the basic requirement of your company's mode of production. Why
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by fengwick3 11y ago
I wasn't raised in the states, so the first time I watched Bob Ross was when twitch hosted the marathon. The painting process felt so surreal - I was witnessing an act of creation, the birth of a painting from blank canvas, yet at the
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Despite the other negative comments, I actually find this a vicarious account of the judicial system - a poignant reminder that behind any democratic system lies humans.
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Existence, Self-Interest and the Problem of Evil (1979) [pdf](colorado.edu)
2 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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How software is made (SMBC)(smbc-comics.com)
3 points by fengwick3 11y ago|0 comments
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Yes perhaps evidence is too strong a word, though that's not what Wolfram would have you believe. Although to be fair, it's going to be quite cumbersome to discount every other statement in a book almost a thousand pages in length
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Wolfram is proposing a radically different way of interpreting the universe. His main argument is that if his cellular automatons can achieve emergent behaviour similar to real physics, then it is evidence for it being the underlying mechan
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by fengwick3 11y ago
Yes, this is actually one of the rare moments where I find my past background in competitive programming helpful. There's a habit I've picked up of constantly running through techniques to speed up whenever I'm coding. Not ne

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