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The key insight is that this strategy causes there to be a strong correlation between the success of different prisoners. As an example, let's say prisoner #10 opens his box and fi…

That's a 終助詞 (shuujoshi) or "sentence-ending particle". Note that despite both being pronounced as "wa", the sentence-ending one is written as わ ("wa"), while the topic-marker part…

Relevant discussion starts at 14:00 (15:47 to skip the intro).

I enjoy reading the comments in Frink's units definition file, which I'm pretty sure I discovered via an old link from HN. https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt I particularly …

That talk was "The Value of Values," which I enjoyed as well. Links for anyone interested: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values (1 hour version) https://www.youtube.com…

It's the asker saying "you cannot," likely because of decisions he or she has already made about the setting and characters of the story that the green star will be in. Your respon…

The koan is commonly accompanied by the following: "What I actually said was, 'If you wire it randomly, it will still have preconceptions of how to play. But you just won't know wh…

The average 1st grader is 6 years old. 8th graders are around 13 years old.

That's true for hold'em, but in stud variants you need to keep track of the cards held or folded by other players.

I believe he's referring to Strogatz's introductory textbook "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering". Amazon link: http://…

Thanks for linking, I enjoyed the talk. I'm currently in the middle of the "go back to school for CS" route into software development, and it was heartening to hear your success st…

Being able to "check the further destruction of the retina" is a therapeutic benefit when it comes to macular degeneration. It's the best outcome you can hope for on any of our cur…

The article you're looking for is here: https://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

I think you're being too dismissive. You may be tired of seeing this kind of post from fresh graduates, but just because the solution to their problems seems obvious to you now, th…

OP, from your description of your relationship with math in school I think you would enjoy Lockhart's Lament (pdf warning): http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf I had a si…

Link for the curious: http://akshat.posterous.com/patio11-says-hello-ladies

I appreciate founders sharing their experiences like this, but I feel like most of this list suffers from premature generalization. Especially if these are lessons learned the hard…

That last line seems a bit uncalled for. I commend the entrepreneurial traits this man showed, but I don't see how you can simply dismiss the fact that he's profiting from a traged…

My post was not an objection to teaching literary criticism. It was an objection to defending literary criticism by appealing to the value of general critical thinking skills. If s…

The only thing that literary criticism ever inspired me to criticize was literary criticism. Perhaps it was simply taught badly, but I received an excellent primary education - if …

This comment thread is the first thing I've ever seen that actually made me want to use a social networking site. I might sign up for a G+ account based on this.

I was a student that bitterly resented English class, despite being an avid reader and (as a result) a not-terrible writer. Yet, just like all of jseliger's students, I would never…