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by forth_fool 1y ago
Isn't 8 digits closer to 100 million unique numbers than to 10?
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by forth_fool 3y ago
So the bureaucrats are winning (as they always do). Demanding that your name is written down in a specific way is just stupid. I always found it elitist when people insist on a specific spelling. Typical examples are "Philip/Phill
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by forth_fool 3y ago
Given that this performance has taken place in a large, western city with a random audience, what makes anyone think that the outcome would be significantly different if you would perform it multiple times, in similar contexts, assuming the
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by forth_fool 3y ago
Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania (ongoing experiment, I guess), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia , Soviet Union
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by forth_fool 3y ago
I got curious about the fact that the cited table from the paper only contains five laws, but the blog author describes seven such laws. So I read the paper. I have to say that the blog describes these laws superficially at best. I recommen
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by forth_fool 4y ago
It seems this technique is getting more pervasive. With such interviews, I always got the feeling these people are talking to a machine. Now that I learned about the Interrotron, I know they are talking to a machine.
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by forth_fool 5y ago
I recommend "What is this thing called Science?" by A. F. Chalmers. It describes how science came about and how scientific principles were established. I found it highly accessible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Resolving a workplace dilemma using game theory(gist.github.com)
2 points by forth_fool 5y ago|1 comments
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by forth_fool 5y ago
TL;DR: Work comes with a cost, whether you do the work or not.
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by forth_fool 5y ago
The idea is, as in the original, that for guessing you have to enter valid words. In this case, it's 6-letter words. However, it's not easy to obtain a complete list of valid 6-letter German words, so the ones you are trying might
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by forth_fool 5y ago
My attempt to create a German one (slightly different rules from the original): https://www.waswort.de
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by forth_fool 6y ago
Talking about obscurity of code, in Forth you would write: 5 9 7 min max . This prints 7, as it's between 5 (lower bound) and 9 (upper bound). Defining a clamp "function" looks like this: : clamp ( min max n -- c