davidnc
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Comment · 1 month ago
For another perspective, 52! is roughly the number of atoms in a galaxy. Galaxies are really quite large!
Comment · 11 months ago
I was curious about this - if my Google results are accurate, it looks like the stock actually peaked in June 2007, the same month that the iphone was released.
It seems that Blackberry's market share of new phone sales peaked at 20% in 2009. So I'm not sure if it's coincidence, but it looks like the market actually did a pretty good job of pricing in the iphone/android risk well before it was strongly reflected in sales.
Comment · 1 year ago
This comment does a great job of clarifying the picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106193.
It's effectively a visualization of gcd(x,y), and has almost nothing to do with primes. Once you realize that, it's a lot easier to reason about a lot of the patterns, although it is still a pretty interesting visualization.
Comment · 2 years ago
The page for the novel mentions it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_...
Comment · 2 years ago
There's still a red clique. And changing any of those 3 to blue crates a blue clique.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
The idea is that if it costs $r to store a base-r digit, then base 3 (or e in a continuous scale) turns out to be the most efficient. Obviously, there's no a priori reason to think that a 3-level gate is exactly 1.5x more expensive than a 2-level gate, so this is mostly of theoretical interest.
Comment · 7 years ago
Note that the answer was written by the asker. Who then commented on the answer:
> I have posted this Q&A because I'm sick and tired of telling people to enable warnings. Now I can just point them here (or, if I'm in a particularly evil mood, close their question as a dupe). You are welcome to improve this answer or add your own.
Comment · 9 years ago
Or, give each representative voting power proportional to the number of voters in their district. That way, no need for the added salary and chaos of 200+ more representatives, and you can get perfectly proportional representation.
Comment · 9 years ago
I thought I'd try writing a translation into Python. Not sure if it makes it any easier to follow, though...
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm curious to know what the original statement was that got mangled into this. Maybe the author heard ASCII instead of C? Not sure where numbercentric would come in, though.