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S4M

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About S4M

email: samuel.le@gmail.com

currently working on a web app to help junior high school students with math: http://magako.com

I am based in Barcelona, feel free to ping me if you want to meet there.

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    Comment #44913832

    There is also thje 2D dialect of Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/2d/

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    Comment #43440842

    Looks neat! My only criticism would be that the solutions are given right after the questions so I couldn't help to read the answer of one question before thinking it through by my…

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    Comment #34378785

    I will join if someone organizes it!

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    Comment #33953906

    There is also this blog post from 2007 by the same author with some math tricks, very neatly explained (it is Terence Tao after all...): https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/a…

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    Comment #31642169

    It said that the quantity sum(1/(n log n) for n in A) is always finite when A is a primitive set. The "operation done to each element of the set" is n -> 1 / (n log n).

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    Comment #31321427

    You are lucky, I kept having the same message asking me to prove that I wasn't a robot and couldn't access to the article at all (same reason as you, they "detected unusual activit…

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    Comment #30508945

    That's just a more sophisticated version of sleep sort.

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    Comment #30172485

    Hi, I would be interested to help a bit, as I think human trafficking is disgusting and should be stopped. Do you have a contact detail - my personal email is in my HN profile)?

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    Comment #29585775

    I played three games and lost them all. It's as you said, I felt that in the opening they knew something I didn't and they entered quickly in my camp. The strange thing is that whe…

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    Comment #29576088

    I just went on playok to play couple of games of xiang qi and... I also got murdered...

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    Comment #29574275

    I don't have the source, but I remember read the lichess didn't want to implement other board games in their interface. For XiangQi, I know that you can play it on playok.com (I kn…

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    Comment #29389495

    Hyperion and Endymion by Dan Simmons are quite good. It's set in the far future, when humans have colonized the whole Galaxy, and AIs have become so advanced that they are sentient…

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    Comment #29214737

    > Thanks, but I already have this coworker. Something like that could be added in the bot's list of responses.

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    Comment #29008530

    I haven't tried it, but there is Janet ( https://janet-lang.org/ ) that seems pretty well suited for building small scripts. It was submitted a few times recently here on HN.

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    Comment #27968389

    You might like the wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_g...

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    Comment #27778892

    I use it to connect to my chess server! I play on freechess.org and xboard is my client for it, but I launch it from an emacs shell that becomes my console to interact with freeche…

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    Comment #27467908

    > I got a D from my professor. I questioned why and was told that it was unreadable, and that the solution was inefficient. That is such a bad faith argument, how can a brute force…

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    Comment #27388635

    I didn't know what was TinyPilot before so a search gave me this: https://tinypilotkvm.com/ It looks really neat, well done!

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    Comment #26924940

    Well, good luck for your endeavors and please let me know (email in my profile) if you need a beta tester or early user.