rmidthun

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by rmidthun 5y ago
All this eulogy for an abusive bully. Among the many "innovations", there was a feature where he would link to a website that he thought was worthy of ridicule. Often mentioning directly that it had a guest book to sign in. So a
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by rmidthun 5y ago
No mention of Tom Lehrer? I still remember the -LY song he wrote. One recurring joke was based on 2001. A giant monolith would crumble to reveal the sound of the day while Also Sprach Zarathustra played. https://www.youtube.co
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by rmidthun 5y ago
Slack decided that my phone is no longer good enough. So I have lost access to the main method of communication when I am away from the computer. I really don't want to get a new phone just for this...
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by rmidthun 6y ago
There is a distinct drop in quality as time passes, anything written in the 50s is golden (Untouched by Human Hands, Store of Infinity) , in the 60s is mixed but still some good stuff (Can you Feel Anything When I do This?). After that i
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by rmidthun 7y ago
By using expected value, you are assuming that the distribution of the even numbers is uniform. You will need to prove that first, and I suspect that will be difficult.
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by rmidthun 7y ago
Since we're looking at Scott Aaronson, you might want to check out "Quantum Computing Since Democritus". It gives a good explanation of the math behind qubits and how they can be used. Best intro I know of.
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by rmidthun 7y ago
It also gets pretty macabre in parts. Specifically The Tin-Woodsman of Oz where the title character wonders whatever happened to the girl that was the reason he was cursed. You see, he fell in love with a girl who was enslaved to a witch
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by rmidthun 7y ago
Strongly disagree. I Am a Strange Loop spends an entire chapter of Hofstadter informing us how he is better than everyone else because he hears Bach better than everyone else. And this attitude fills the book, I found it very obnoxious an
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by rmidthun 7y ago
I once registered a password using a special character, but I could not get in. It turned out that they url encoded it, if I used %21 instead of "!" I could get into the site.
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by rmidthun 7y ago
By this logic, would Guitar Magazine, which published very complete sheet music for many of these songs have a copyright claim? I know I have a magazine at home with Stairway to Heaven and I'm pretty sure there's a copyright in
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by rmidthun 8y ago
FATE. Designed to be about the simplest thing that could be called a system, but endless flexibility in what you use it for. The Accelerated version is about 40 pages, the Core version is a more detailed, but still less than the typical RP
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by rmidthun 8y ago
I think you need to read that linked article a bit more closely. "You can go to jail for not filing your taxes. You can go to jail for lying on your return. But you can’t go to jail for not having enough money to pay your taxes. "
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by rmidthun 8y ago
That's a crash trap. But if you were to have a glitch trap, that would be funny. A glitch trap teleports the person carrying you, probably into space to die, leaving you behind. Then you could go get the next one. So many tricks
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by rmidthun 8y ago
Greg Egan wrote a story ("Border Guards")in which post-human players play a game of Quantum Soccer. Being Greg Egan, he actually created the game in Java. http://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Soccer/Soccer.htm
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by rmidthun 8y ago
Warning: That link was replaced with a "your machine might be infected, call us now!" type scam.
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by rmidthun 9y ago
The web site https://betterexplained.com/ has physical books that you can purchase "Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition". The explanations on that website are excellent, I imagine the book
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by rmidthun 9y ago
Like this one? https://blog.highfidelity.com/avatar-island-our-first-steps-...
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by rmidthun 9y ago
It doesn't even need to be hostile to be trouble. The Strugatsky brothers book "Roadside Picnic" (inspiration for game and movie "Stalker") is based on the idea that aliens came and visited Earth and ignored us comp
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by rmidthun 9y ago
The source code to Simon Tatham's Puzzles is open-source, so you could see how at least one person does it. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/devel/ https://git.tartarus.org
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by rmidthun 9y ago
CYOA still lives, but in different forms. Japanese Visual Novels are basically CYOA with pictures. The number of decision points varies depending on the book in question, but the basic structure is still there. Twine [1] is a system that
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by rmidthun 9y ago
I would add pictorial programming languages, such as ProGraph if you want a really unusual way to program. Object oriented, but inherently dataflow. Loops were very weird though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph
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by rmidthun 9y ago
Remembered another one: gravitational orbits can't occur in 4D space or higher. In 3d space, we have inverse-square laws. Think of a light source, the area that is covers at a given distance is the area of a sphere, so it makes sense
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by rmidthun 9y ago
Rotations can be composed in up to 3 dimensions only. That means that for any sequence of rotations, you can come up with a single rotation that is equal to that rotation. In 2d, this is just adding scalars and rotation has no meaning in
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by rmidthun 10y ago
Pigeonhole Principle. The number of messages of bit length N is 2^N. You are trying to map these into 2^M compressed strings, M < N. By the Pigeonhole (or Dirichlet's Box) Principle, at least one compressed string will have more
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by rmidthun 10y ago
If you want a good look at the other side, read the Showa series of manga by Shigeru Mizuki. It mixes historical background (based on photos) with his own personal story (a more cartoony style). And his own story is Hellish by any standar
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by rmidthun 11y ago
My daughter played an MMO by Disney called Pixie Hollow. In the game, players were given pets that they needed to play with, keep clean and feed to keep healthy. About a month after the game closed, she woke up from a nightmare. She drea
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by rmidthun 11y ago
I would encourage a hybrid approach if you are getting nowhere. There is a trick to finding solving patterns known as commutators. For instance, see http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~converse/rubiks.php?id1=basics&...
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by rmidthun 11y ago
It depends on what you mean by layman. I found the book Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson to be very easy to understand, but it does require some linear algebra and complex numbers. I don't think you can get a good
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by rmidthun 11y ago
Scale matters. Steam has less than 4000 games total. The App store has 1400 applications every day. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-100-million-u... http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics&#x2
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by rmidthun 12y ago
There is a way to map each rational to a specific positive integer. First, you need to define a mapping between positives and integers, this is pretty simple. 0 1 2 3 4 0 -1 1 -2 2 in c code: if(x<0) ? (x * -2)-1 : x * 2; (pretend that

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