s-phi-nl

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by s-phi-nl 2y ago
If they did that, everyone would worry about registering all the domains with a Levenshtein distance of 1 from theirs, in case of typos.
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by s-phi-nl 2y ago
A paragraph from the previous essay by the OP comes to mind: > Less sardonically, there is a lesson here: systems which intermediate between cultures are useful. Intermediating between cultures is a thing the world urgently needs and is
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by s-phi-nl 2y ago
Mandatory citation of XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/
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StrokeInput: Graffiti for iOS(strokeinput.com)
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by s-phi-nl 3y ago
It sounds like the symbol "≹" just means "incomparable", which is a well-known concept in math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparability This symbol for it may be useful, but it's the concep
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by s-phi-nl 3y ago
The Logic Alphabet (linked to above at http://www.logic-alphabet.net/images/flipstick_2347_2.jpg ), which has a similar concept, seems to have better support: it can represent twelve of the symbols using Latin letters (
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by s-phi-nl 5y ago
A bit late to the party, but you have written excellent documentation at https://hubris.oxide.computer/reference/ . It immediately answered the questions I had after reading 'Animats several comments on IPC. This i
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by s-phi-nl 8y ago
There's a (10 year old) post saying it could support utf-8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100
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by s-phi-nl 8y ago
Point taken, although there, of course, is at least one exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_r...
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by s-phi-nl 9y ago
I once sent him a letter (snail mail) addressed to Donald Knuth, c/o Stanford Computer Science Department (address at bottom of http://www-cs.stanford.edu/ ). He got back within a couple of weeks, so it seems to have re
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by s-phi-nl 9y ago
FiveThirtyEight had an interesting piece on how politicians have stronger incentives to provide relief after disasters than prepare for them before hand. You can read it at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disaster-
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by s-phi-nl 9y ago
Do you know of any source that compares the coefficients for bubble sort, insertion sort, and selection sort? This sounds interesting.
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by s-phi-nl 9y ago
Anecdotally, the professor of my algorithms class had us all sort cards manually and asked us to describe the algorithm we used when we began studying sorting algorithms. Most of us used either selection sort or insertion sort.
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by s-phi-nl 9y ago
That's true, but many users are still affected by that Python 2 remains the default. Any user can install a tool for Python 2 with pip install --user but the user might need root privileges to install a tool for Python 3 if the syst
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
Your untrained eye took the # for comments, but I'm not sure that generalized to anyone's. Plenty of languages use # for other things: Smalltalk uses them for symbols, Clojure uses them for reader macros, OCaml uses them for met
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
According to the US State Department > Gibraltar is adjacent to known drug trafficking and human smuggling routes, but the territory is heavily policed on land and at sea due to the risk of these activities occurring within its borders o
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
I think my question is now answered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383171 , in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383211 .
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
Could you give an example of "problems you'd otherwise use AES passphrase-encrypted ZIP files to solve"? Do any of them involve sending the data anywhere (i.e., the sender and receiver are the same person)?
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
All throughout the talk there were statements like "Let p be an odd prime and…" My friend asked, “what is an odd prime?”—thinking it must be special in some way. The answer back was: not 2. from https://
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
Thanks! Yes, with excluded middle is what I meant.
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
Could you point to a reference for the non-confluence of logic without excluded middle? It sounds interesting and a quick Google search did not find anything.
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
Because that's what the US Constitution requires [1]: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries&q
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
Along similar lines, "The King's English" http://holyjoe.org/poetry/anonA.htm
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
To add some data to this discussion, in 2015 FiveThirtyEight found that Delta flights typically took 4 minutes less compared to other airlines, whereas Southwest flights typically took 1 minute more. This takes delays and cancellations into
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
You might look at YAML: it is a superset of JSON that allows unquoted strings.
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
I trust you are aware of http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments ?
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by s-phi-nl 10y ago
There are some mathematical reasons. In particular, the two most consonant (best-sounding) intervals are the octave and the fifth. The frequencies of the two pitches in an octave have a ratio of 2.0, and the frequencies of the two pitches i
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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
FWIW, Babai (the author) has a very small Erdos number: 1: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=584517
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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
For some reason, this reminds me of Richard Feynman's comments about science education in Brazil: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education "'I have discovered something else,' I continued.
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by s-phi-nl 11y ago
Essentially, this defines a homomorphic pairing function[1] for the integers. A Gaussian integer can be seen as the pair (a, b) where a and b are integers. This assigns a unique natural number to each one. One can use this to show that pair

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