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| 5 points by abetusk on Jan 17, 2024 | past | 2 comments |
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| 4 points by SerCe on Jan 16, 2024 | past |
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| 114 points by rolph on Dec 16, 2023 | past | 146 comments |
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| 2 points by andyjohnson0 on Dec 12, 2023 | past |
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| 3 points by andyjohnson0 on Dec 11, 2023 | past |
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| | The Dark Matter of Programmers (johndcook.com) |
| 3 points by jafitc on Dec 5, 2023 | past |
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| | Unix Linguistics (johndcook.com) |
| 3 points by leephillips on Nov 30, 2023 | past |
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| | Apple Design, Squircles, and Curvature (2018) (johndcook.com) |
| 2 points by Tevias on Nov 27, 2023 | past |
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| | John Cook: Factored random numbers (johndcook.com) |
| 2 points by PaulHoule on Nov 25, 2023 | past |
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| | The Worst Tool for the Job (johndcook.com) |
| 4 points by fagnerbrack on Nov 24, 2023 | past |
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| | Four Hours of Concentration a Day (johndcook.com) |
| 4 points by ibobev on Nov 14, 2023 | past |
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| | Simple Legacy (2008) (johndcook.com) |
| 1 point by zuhayeer on Nov 11, 2023 | past |
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| | Portable sed -I across macOS and Linux (johndcook.com) |
| 2 points by warrenm on Oct 25, 2023 | past |
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| | Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT (johndcook.com) |
| 134 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 17, 2023 | past | 6 comments |
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| | Homework Problems Are Rigged (johndcook.com) |
| 5 points by jseliger on Oct 12, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| | You wanted a banana but you got a gorilla holding the banana (2011) (johndcook.com) |
| 3 points by alexzeitler on Oct 4, 2023 | past |
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| | Consecutive Coupon Collector Problem (johndcook.com) |
| 3 points by abetusk on Oct 1, 2023 | past |
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| 1 point by colinprince on Oct 1, 2023 | past |
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| 3 points by warrenm on Aug 14, 2023 | past |
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| | Just evaluating a polynomial: how hard could it be? (johndcook.com) |
| 2 points by zaikunzhang on Aug 11, 2023 | past |
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| | Four characterizations of the normal distribution (2008) (johndcook.com) |
| 2 points by KqAmJQ7 on Aug 1, 2023 | past |
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| | Crinkle Crankle Calculus (2019) (johndcook.com) |
| 4 points by layer8 on July 27, 2023 | past |
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| | Forever Chemicals and Blood Donation (johndcook.com) |
| 3 points by hackernj on July 18, 2023 | past |
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| | How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (johndcook.com) |
| 98 points by alberto_ol on July 14, 2023 | past | 36 comments |
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| | Technological Schadenfreuden (johndcook.com) |
| 2 points by dvrp on July 10, 2023 | past |
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| | Cosine power approximation to Gaussian density (johndcook.com) |
| 10 points by RafelMri on July 5, 2023 | past |
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| | Three advantages of non-AI models (johndcook.com) |
| 3 points by zdw on July 3, 2023 | past |
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| | Multiplication via Parabola (johndcook.com) |
| 5 points by KqAmJQ7 on July 2, 2023 | past |
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| | Every factorial approximates a power (johndcook.com) |
| 164 points by warrenm on June 26, 2023 | past | 64 comments |
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