jonp

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by jonp 2y ago
Actually, 53^8 = 62,259,690,411,361 (not ..360)
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by jonp 6y ago
Here's a collection of the shortest finish in many games: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/1112.html
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You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot–and Sooner Than You Think(motherjones.com)
6 points by jonp 9y ago|0 comments
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List of IPython (Jupyter) Notebooks by Peter Norvig(norvig.com)
4 points by jonp 10y ago|0 comments
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List of IPython (Jupyter) Notebooks by Peter Norvig(norvig.com)
4 points by jonp 11y ago|0 comments
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When Is Cheryl's Birthday?(nbviewer.ipython.org)
240 points by jonp 11y ago|128 comments
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by jonp 11y ago
"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes" - JBS Halda
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by jonp 12y ago
It looks like there is a way to delete: select a section of text (using Shift and arrow keys) then press Enter.
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Sol Golomb’s Rectangle Puzzle (by Peter Norvig)(nbviewer.ipython.org)
1 points by jonp 12y ago|0 comments
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by jonp 13y ago
"UK" doesn't seem to be shown on the map. I think "UK" should be replaced by "GB" in the URL.
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by jonp 13y ago
I'd come across a similar suggestion in a political context. Saying "we want a fair tax system" is meaningless, because any political party could say that. Saying "we want higher taxes on the wealthy to help the poor&quo
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Dictionary of Numbers(dictionaryofnumbers.com)
6 points by jonp 13y ago|1 comments
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Rock, Paper, Scissors(datagenetics.com)
4 points by jonp 13y ago|0 comments
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Shutterstock Founder Took 100,000 Photos To Get His Company Off The Ground(businessinsider.com)
1 points by jonp 14y ago|0 comments
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by jonp 14y ago
The world record stands at 21.19 seconds ( http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory.html#cards-speed )
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by jonp 14y ago
Here's a JavaScript/HTML5/Canvas version. You can view the first 100 diagrams in a grid or view the diagram for the N of your choice. There's also an option to view an alternative diagram where the drawing starts with the smallest prime ins
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by jonp 14y ago
A tweetable (140 character) single line of Python: print '\n'.join((lambda x:(''.join(x) if x else str(i)))([w+'zz' for (n,w) in ((3,'Fi'),(5,'Bu'),(7,'Ba')) if i%n==0]) for i in range(1,100))
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In Praise of Idleness (Bertrand Russell, 1932)(zpub.com)
2 points by jonp 14y ago|0 comments
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Beware email's cunning little ways(timharford.com)
2 points by jonp 14y ago|0 comments
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by jonp 14y ago
Although you also "enjoy" inflation of over 6% pa. In both the US and SA returns are lagging behind inflation by around 1% pa.
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My mystery complimenters: curiouser and crsuoiesr(luciancampconsulting.com)
3 points by jonp 14y ago|0 comments
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by jonp 14y ago
One (admittedly rare) counterexample is the late Sir Clement Freud: "We remain together. I call her 'my first wife' to keep her on her toes." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5165998/Sir-Clement-Freud...
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by jonp 14y ago
I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparen
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What Makes a Robot Fish Attractive? Robot Fish Moves to the Head of the School(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by jonp 15y ago|0 comments
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When to have been born?(ibbly.com)
1 points by jonp 15y ago|0 comments
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Streetview Stereographic(notlion.github.com)
2 points by jonp 15y ago|0 comments
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by jonp 15y ago
As someone who does have difficulty conceiving of ways to spend a cosmological-scale lifespan, how might you spend it?
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Why are some programmers paid more than others?(marginalrevolution.com)
12 points by jonp 15y ago|2 comments
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by jonp 15y ago
I built http://www.birthdaysudoku.com - sudoku puzzles customised to include a date of birth.
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by jonp 15y ago
http://birthdaysudoku.com - personalised sudoku puzzles. I've never made any money from it, but I get a kick out of knowing that people in far-away places are using something I've made.

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