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by yang140 23d ago
Author here, good call! I credit Conway in the center of the article, the content for "more on him at the end" was hidden after reader finish the challenge in part 6. I guess it worth to show it by default, updated already. I&#x27
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Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date(tinkerandsee.com)
80 points by yang140 24d ago|24 comments
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Can Bitcoin Save Venezuelans?(nytimes.com)
5 points by yang140 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Are Data-Viz Designers So Obsessed with Circles?(wired.com)
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100 Days of Lettering – My Thoughts and Process(medium.com)
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by yang140 11y ago
John Markoff's new book "Machines of Loving Grace" is a great one about this AI vs IA topic. http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Loving-Grace-Common-Between/d...
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by yang140 11y ago
Thanks for sharing this post. Bret mentioned this in his "Media for thinking unthinkable" talk that Mathematical notation itself is a great tool for making mathematical structure visible. They are like user interface, it tell thin
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by yang140 12y ago
I really like The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, it is a great book about the whole computer history and many ideas that made it possible.
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by yang140 12y ago
That's also the question I have when working on it. The data is actually from blockchain.info's WebSockets. Maybe their transactions are mainly from US and Northern Europe, I was expecting to see more from Asia.
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by yang140 12y ago
Thanks, It is just for fun. the address is based on the relay ip address. So it is not necessarily the real transaction address. I am making this as an example of learning d3.js. It is very interesting.
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Show HN: A real-time Bitcoin transaction map(shuoyangdesign.com)
33 points by yang140 12y ago|15 comments
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An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by yang140 13y ago|0 comments
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Honing Your Digital Imagination(hazyblue.me)
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