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Variations on Knuth's Twindragon
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ibobev
12 hours ago
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A recipe for creating random fractals
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4 points
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azhenley
2 days ago
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Punch cards and dollar bills
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10 points
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zdw
3 days ago
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A simple way to generate random points on a sphere
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78 points
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piinbinary
6 days ago
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75 comments
What's in Your Wallet?
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4 points
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warrenm
7 days ago
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Randomly Generated Dragon
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3 points
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froober
9 days ago
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The Rise and Fall of Bayesian Statistics
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4 points
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next_xibalba
16 days ago
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Self-Loathing AI
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5 points
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zdw
17 days ago
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Making the two-dimensional one-dimensional
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3 points
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Michelangelo11
19 days ago
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Making the two-dimensional one-dimensional
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6 points
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susam
19 days ago
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Roundest Regular Solid
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3 points
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zdw
25 days ago
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Ethereum EIP-55 added backward-compatible error checking
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6 points
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ColinWright
29 days ago
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Base58 versus Base85 Encoding
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14 points
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zdw
33 days ago
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Anthony Scopatz on xonsh and shells in general (2015)
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5 points
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Qem
37 days ago
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Most ints are not floats
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54 points
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zdw
59 days ago
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91 comments
Why use hash puzzles for proof-of-work?
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4 points
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Bostonian
63 days ago
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Cryptography, Hydrodynamics, and Celestial Mechanics
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3 points
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tapanjk
67 days ago
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Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation?
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66 points
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tapanjk
77 days ago
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30 comments
Formal Methods Let You Explore the Corners (2016)
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3 points
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gavinhoward
87 days ago
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Looking for Keys Under the Lamppost
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10 points
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zdw
3 months ago
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5 comments
Frequency of Papal Names
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4 points
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gscott
3 months ago
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Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
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83 points
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Bostonian
3 months ago
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110 comments
Morse code and the limits of human perception
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3 points
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ColinWright
4 months ago
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When is round-trip floating point radix conversion exact?
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1 point
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azhenley
4 months ago
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Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols
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18 points
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azhenley
4 months ago
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Superhyperbola
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64 points
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jihadjihad
5 months ago
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20 comments
Voyager's Slingshot Maneuvers
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3 points
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ColinWright
5 months ago
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Advantages of Reed-Solomon codes over Golay codes
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1 point
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ColinWright
5 months ago
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Testing a Random Number Generator (2010) [pdf]
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2 points
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Tomte
5 months ago
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The difference between tokens and words
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10 points
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handfuloflight
5 months ago
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