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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
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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…
Immigrants From Latin America and Africa Squeezed as Banks Curtail International Money Transfers
Under regulatory pressure, many banks are ending or limiting money transfers, most likely meaning higher costs for immigrants sending money home.
Hasnain says:
Well this sucks. Limiting low cost money transfers.
Posted on 2014-07-07T17:23:08+0000
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Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Ken Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt, use brute force.". Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Myt…
Dropping Loot – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
I got started hacking on my own roguelike after spending several years avidly playing Angband. Like most projects, I had a few itches I wanted to scratch and it kind of took on a life of its own. One thing that annoyed me about Angband was how monsters dropped loot when they died.