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vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

And keeping it all in one text file. org-mode allows you to easily enough set up a structure so that it remains easy to edit.

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I think it might only be a waste if you can come up with a way to predict who is going to be the person with a BA in English that doesn't use it. If you can't predict it, then it means that those who do use it are more expensive than sticker price (their cost would be "total costs to get people BA's in English"/"total number of people that actually use it").

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Here (where you have to search through Fibonacci numbers) I suspect memoization is rather the way to go:

  # memoized fibonacci function
  fibtable = {1:1, 0:1}

  def fib (n):
      global fibtable
      if n in fibtable.keys():
          return fibtable [n]
      val = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)
      fibtable [n] = val
      return val

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Monday: Mon(th)da(y)y(ear) Doesn't get much worse for a mnemonic, but works for me.

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I belief the Fields Medal is not only given to people below 40 b/c there are no older people deserving; I belief it is given to younger people b/c they can most benefit from getting such recognition.

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Do we know "the guy" is not the bartender?

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Site does not work for me, but I have been using foxclocks for a long time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

"The first thing we always do is make slight modifications to what we already have."

rather contrasts with

"The next big difference is that we changed colors and went from cardboard to white to spark the interest of people walking by instead of automatically having negative associations that they have with cardboard and homeless people."

The second can (and in the context of the article maybe should) be tested. The small change is to make exactly the same text on the different material.

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Has been done:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=114232425072

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I distinctly remember claims that for modern monitors the color does not change energy use.

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Anyone any idea how these energy measurements were made?

kasterma

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I had the same question; I don't know the answer yet, but I found a location for the answer http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.ps

The documentation for py-bcrypt ( http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/) doesn't explain what happens, but shows use is very very easy.

EDIT: current guess is that searching for the salt that was used might be part of what makes it hard.

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

As another scientist I have to strongly second this. Some things might take real work on your part to understand though. Even within different fields of mathematics there are difficulties in understanding (complaint about this: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html).

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

I really hope that app stores are on their way out, for exactly the reason the article gives (lack of openness). So even though I am at this point doubtful about them actually being on the decline, I like seeing articles that suggest they are. Maybe the articles can help with this decline.

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

What do you mean when you say it is not a hobby? Is it your job?

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

The article suggests otherwise (though does not quite say so in: And some makers of germ killers wish they could say their products kill the swine-flu virus -- a claim that some can reasonably make.)

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

How much free content do they need to tie it back to you? Remember AOL releasing some search queries, and quickly people were identified. I imagine that is not hard with facebook interactions either.

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

The code for my lock would not be found this way. Choosing the correct 3rd number (which obviously I know) my whole code does not appear in the suggestions to try.

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-(

http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

kasterma

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-(

http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

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