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by jmyc 12y ago
Another nice summary of this sort of thing: Fibonacci Flim-Flam http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
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by jmyc 12y ago
This is a video of one of the in-game tutorials (the tutorial is rendered in-game, with the same camera perspective as a player), it does a decent job of explaining the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmRBvla8tSY
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by jmyc 13y ago
Here it is: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
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by jmyc 13y ago
Yes, Little Snitch can help Safari pass this browser test (the unusual port was a red flag for me).
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by jmyc 13y ago
HyperCard could be added to the list http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-t... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
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by jmyc 13y ago
Britannica articles aren't written by "one person who spent their lifetime researching" that topic.
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by jmyc 13y ago
> Now, in all fairness they do have a cragy coast, but it is very clear the districts are unconscionably gamed. I'm not sure how it was done in the source for that news article, but gerrymandering-detection algorithms should ignore
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by jmyc 13y ago
It's a picture of the NSA headquarters at Ft. Meade. That may be all there is to it.
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by jmyc 13y ago
> On the other hand, you can't really blame Riot... Of course not, they are free to employ whichever model they want. I think his reply was more directed at the statement: "I think League of Legends or maybe Team Fortress 2 are about a
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by jmyc 13y ago
According to now-declassified documents, the US had the capability but chose not to launch a satellite due to setting legal precedent. I.e., they wanted to launch spy satellites but were worried that if they initiated this, it could be int
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by jmyc 13y ago
Related: genetic algorithms to play video games. I can't find the exact one I read about before, which was for Super Mario Bros., but searching for "mario genetic algorithm" leads to a number of papers, videos, &c.
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by jmyc 14y ago
Yes: http://manuels.github.com/texlive.js/website/ -- "This is a port of TeX live 2012 to Javascript." Also related: http://www.mathjax.org/
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by jmyc 14y ago
> The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so His presentation is utter nonsense, but whether he reads verbatim has nothing to do with it. Someone presenting
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by jmyc 14y ago
I think this is a poor substitute for engagement/wedding/etc announcements in the newspaper. While he could, I suppose, buy ad space for an engagement announcement in a newspaper, they are submitted/printed for free (and put on the paper's
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by jmyc 14y ago
Just a suggestion: I was annoyed when I first tried to drag the slider. I figured out you have to click it instead, but some users may just quit first.
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by jmyc 14y ago
The "earning them a master's" doesn't ruffle my feathers. A master's thesis in itself doesn't mean much; it doesn't have to present new results nor have any impact. Presumably this student had to complete the coursework required for the d
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by jmyc 14y ago
From your link, "Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct" (concerning the "climategate" e-mails). By hearing the cherry-picked quotes from those e-mails, you
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by jmyc 14y ago
Not necessarily of Shipper but I'm sick of these "long conversation" ways of explaining things that don't need to be simplified. This is an almost boringly simple problem (I'm not trying to be condescending, but this is freshman CS stuff),