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by ndrscr 11y ago
There's a guy on Israeli TV named גיא פינס--pronounced "Guy Penis." How's that for a name?
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by ndrscr 11y ago
The very reason that I became interested in programming is the ability to eliminate repetition. Instead of solving math problems, I could make a calculator program. Instead of typing something out many times, the computer would do it for me
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by ndrscr 11y ago
Perhaps you should have a "Trie of stories" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie ). Every possible sequence of letters, and thus every story, is simply a path down this trie, where each node has children contai
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by ndrscr 11y ago
The word "expericne" somehow got into the Markov chain. Perhaps the words themselves are being generated by an algorithm?
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by ndrscr 11y ago
I like the simplicity of http://getmagicnow.com , which appeared on HN semi-recently.
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by ndrscr 11y ago
Thank you for the correction
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by ndrscr 12y ago
Just as a sidenote, the Rabbis determine that a fetal calf does not count as meat, so one could actually cook a calf in its mother's milk, according to Jewish law.
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by ndrscr 12y ago
Consider the Odyssey, a classic example of a Greek text. The Odyssey was codified and passed down through generations in Greece. People write about the Odyssey, but almost no one has writted linear commentaries for it. Lets compare that to
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by ndrscr 12y ago
Compile? I don't think Mel would do anything past assemble.
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by ndrscr 12y ago
Don't forget John von Neumann
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by ndrscr 12y ago
Reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/status/372156022913122304
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by ndrscr 12y ago
I, too, did not find this very understandable when I was trying to learn Lambda Calculus for the first time. Even now, it is still quite baffling how alligators eating aligators makes more intuitive sense than the regular notation (well, at