hawk

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Filling crossword grids 100x faster with constraint propagation(rainjacket.github.io)
2 points by hawk 6mo ago|0 comments
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Orca – A high-performance crossword grid filler(rainjacket.github.io)
3 points by hawk 6mo ago|1 comments
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by hawk 6mo ago
Orca is a fast crossword grid filler written in Rust that can efficiently fill gnarly, unconstrained grids. The link explains the algorithm in detail. As a crossword constructor myself, I'm fascinated by wide open grids with very few b
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by hawk 1y ago
I've been in this position and for me the motivation to keep pressing on came from still staying out there and at least hanging out and talking with like-minded friends in the tech space. Without that my tendency would be to wallow and
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by hawk 14y ago
Groupon is a fairly complex promotion, and the best way to use it isn't really that obvious. Also, groupon has limited itself to the specific promotion that is most profitable for themselves. (You could imagine that in an alternate world th
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by hawk 16y ago
anybody else think its hilarious that this comment gets downvoted to oblivion?
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by hawk 16y ago
quantum computers are not KNOWN to be better than classical ones for NP-complete problems (although many believe that no form of computation available in this universe can solve NP-hard problems in polynomial times)
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by hawk 16y ago
These proofs aren't really that interesting, it's more of an exercise really... most solitaire games with certain properties are NP-complete and most 2-player games are PSPACE-complete.
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by hawk 16y ago
In particular, markets with several large, slow-moving, and undifferentiated competitors (e.g. telecom).
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by hawk 17y ago
for 7, not sure what you mean by your "simpler sequence" obeying this - i don't see how that's the case. you can do this problem with elementary knowledge, however. as you imply, first transform it into an addition problem from a multiplica
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by hawk 17y ago
I disagree, this is a great puzzle and is pretty well specified.
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by hawk 17y ago
There were 5 violins, 2 of which were fungus violins, one of those in particular received a staggering 60% of the votes. Not sure what the best conclusion to draw is but it's certainly believable that one day you'll be able to get a cheap v
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by hawk 17y ago
what you mean is that nature is interesting. here's a clip to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhh32JYkQPk
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by hawk 17y ago
one reason facebook is so viral is that it largely implements this naturally by its decomposition. that is, randomly choose seeds within a dense section of the graph (an island, or in facebook lingo, a network). it will quickly spread to th
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by hawk 18y ago
you are an entp presumably?
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by hawk 18y ago
these two types are actually relatively similar (negatives of each other); they perceive and judge in the same manners but emphasize their parts in opposite orders