guruparan18

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Applied math graduate. Interested in math, computers and science in general.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Also most advanced IDE's do this better and lot more to troubleshoot/debug.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for the explanation. And no worries. I was only mildly surprised it was on one direction. Now I know why.
Comment · 2 years ago
Did not know about this. Seems awesome tool to work for next project. Thanks.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting. Can you please expand more on "ortho-k"? Where can I read more about it?
Comment · 2 years ago
Looks like access denied? Good work!
Comment · 3 years ago
Another thing I had experienced before was a document picture I used after downsizing to mandatory upload size had a character/number randomly changed (6 to b or d). Don't remember which exactly and had to convert the doc to PDF that managed it better.
Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting to read the "dice rolling" part.

> investigating dice rolling patterns A friend showed me a dice rolling game where you roll a bunch of dice and add up the values. I mentioned that if you roll enough dice and add up all the values, at some point it gets a lot less “random”.

And result turned out "true"? Rolled a die for 2500 times and the sum is all around 8500! I wonder what would be the results for 25/250 times? So, this is sum(expectations).. and for rolling a die, it is 3.5 [(1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 => 21/6], so the answer was 3.5 x 2500 = 8750. Should hold good for all numbers relatively large.

Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you. That make sense now.
Comment · 5 years ago
I am confused how this works. I would assume `SECONDS` would just be a shell variable and it was first assigned `0` and then it should stay same, why did it keep counting the seconds?

    > SECONDS
    bash: SECONDS: command not found
    > SECONDS=0; sleep 5; echo $SECONDS;
    5
    > echo "Your command completed after $SECONDS seconds";
    Your command completed after 41 seconds
    > echo "Your command completed after $SECONDS seconds";
    Your command completed after 51 seconds
    > echo "Your command completed after $SECONDS seconds";
    Your command completed after 53 seconds
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
So the new ones are? Interesting.

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Comment · 5 years ago
John Conway loss will live in my memory for sometime, just like loosing John Nash on a car accident. Their contribution to math will outlive everything else.
Comment · 6 years ago
And Tamil have long tradition of resisting Sanskirt influence. With elaborate grammar rules dictating if you must use loan words when, where and how to use them. It is more true for literary setting and never true for day-today speaking. Also, Tamil words also made into Sanskrit, don't know what it means. Languages are basically for interchanging ideas. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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