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Programming is not math, huh? • Jeremy Kun

You’re right, programming isn’t math. But when someone says this, chances are it’s a programmer misunderstanding mathematics. I often hear the refrain that programmers don’t need to know any math to be proficient and have... | Jeremy Kun | ∈ Mathematicians ∩ Programmers

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Evan Sultanik | A Page of Personl Deification (and Other Self-Deprecating Incongruities)

Sometimes taking the easy way out isn't nearly as bad as it might seem!posted Thursday February 13th, 2014 at 08:19:00Tagged: Math

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Hasnain says:

"That's really surprising, especially realizing that this applies for all NP-hard problems, if formulated correctly. So, simply choosing a random solution is often effectively as good as the best approximation algorithms that are currently known. In fact, in our paper we linked above we present some empirical evidence suggesting that the random solutions are often even closer to optimal than ones produced by state-of-the-art approximation algorithms."

Posted on 2014-07-18T00:57:30+0000

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Seth Mnookin: Fighting a One-of-a-Kind Disease

What do you do if your child has a condition that is new to science? Until recently, Bertrand Might was the only known patient with a certain genetic disorder. His parents began searching for others.

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Hasnain says:

This is really really moving. A story about a couple's fight to figure out what was wrong with their son.

The father in question is Matt Might, famous for "An illustrated guide to a PhD" and "Hunting down my son's killer".

Posted on 2014-07-18T00:50:44+0000

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Gamasutra - The History of Civilization

[Gamasutra is proud to be partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present detailed official histories of each of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon. The Canon "provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S.…

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Nimrod by Example - Main

Nimrod is a powerful statically typed language that allows the programmer expressiveness without compromising run-time performance. As a general purpose programming language, it gives the same sort of power and performance as C++, but in a nicer package and with even more powerful tools!

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Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa | Beyond Bandwidth

David Young, Vice President, Verizon Regulatory Affairs recently published a blog post suggesting that Netflix themselves are responsible for the streaming

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Hasnain says:

""If that’s the case, we’ll buy one for them. Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports. If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it.""

Posted on 2014-07-17T22:21:55+0000

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