erdosjr
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Comment · 1 year ago
There is a small mistake in the formula: the actual cardinality of the noise database would be 16777216 ^ (1024 * 768), which is a much bigger number.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Double is only available to US residents.
I would have loved to see that message on the Sign Up page before I enter my email address.
Comment · 3 years ago
Clojure with just a few lines of javascript for the ui, no libraries or frameworks.
Comment · 6 years ago
The Elo rating system in chess is often written in capital letters, but it is not an acronym. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo.
https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1327/what-does-elo...
Comment · 7 years ago
Kite building and flying. It involves a bit of engineering and a nice reason to get away from the computer screen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980440
Comment · 7 years ago
Or the cover of Godel Escher Bach
Comment · 7 years ago
Apart from being fun, there is a good amount of engineering in designing kites.
For example, NASA has been experimenting with designing simple parachutes [1] and it turned out that the parawings (or Rogallo wings) are pretty good traction kites, too. The NPW kites are still popular kites as they are cheap to make and long-wearing in use.
Comment · 8 years ago
Hi, I work for a small company creating insurance software (dealing with lots of insurance policy documents, offers, legal documents, etc).
I created this library to make creating and editing document templates easier. Now we can turn a custumer's document into a document template in just minutes.
I wrote the core of the library in Clojure. It turned out that Clojure's data.xml is a great way to deal with immutable XML trees.
- source: https://github.com/erdos/stencil - documentation: https://erdos.github.io/stencil/
I am happy to answer questions and receive feedback about this project.
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