Two Girls, a Golden Balloon, and Fate
In 2001, a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton released a golden balloon into the sky. What happened next is difficult to comprehend.
Hasnain says:
"“Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten.”"
- Terry Pratchett, Discworld
Posted on 2014-07-12T05:06:04+0000
Cynk Makes the Case for Buying Friends, Naked Short Selling
Is Cynk a short-seller trap? Maybe? I don't know. I guess not? But wouldn't it be cool if it was?
Hasnain says:
This seems to be a plausible explanation of what happened.
Posted on 2014-07-12T04:45:30+0000
Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today
A pediatric occupational therapist says schools keep kids in their chairs far too long.
philipl/pifs
pifs - πfs - the data-free filesystem!
Study: Half of black males, 40 percent of white males arrested by age 23
Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the US are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. A new study released Jan. 6 in the journal Crime & Delinquency provides the first contemporary finding…
MindRDR
MindRDR connects Google Glass with a device to monitor brain activity, allowing users to take pictures and socialise them on Twitter or Facebook. No physical interaction required.
Patrick Rothfuss and the Worldbuilders Team - Ask Us Anything : Fantasy
Hello there Reddit. I'm Pat Rothfuss, and I'm here with a few people from the Worldbuilders Team to talk about our cool new fundraiser, [Geeks Doing G...
Hasnain says:
Starts in a few hours. He needs to hurry up and get back to writing the next book.
Posted on 2014-07-09T21:13:51+0000
A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity
The billionaire mathematician James H. Simons had led a life of ferocious curiosity.
My (Half) Workday as a Turker
cs.cmu.edu
Hasnain says:
This is a really good take on the perspective of a Mechanical Turk worker.
Posted on 2014-07-09T01:11:12+0000
Procedural Content Generation in Games | A textbook and an overview of current research
Table of Contents 1IntroductionJulian Togelius, Noor Shaker, Mark Nelson2The search-based approachJulian Togelius and Noor Shaker3Constructive generation methods for dungeons and levels Noor Shaker, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius, Ricardo Lopes and Rafael Bidarra4Fractals, noise and agents with ap…