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hc

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    Comment #4600271

    you should submit this!

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    Comment #2825141

    it doesn't say anywhere that this class is free. i doubt that it is free.

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    Comment #2671950

    david eppstein, prof at uc irvine, has a great collection of fundamental data structures and algorithms coded in python available at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/

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    Comment #2628146

    someone failed logic

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    Comment #2548661

    cool story, bro

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    Comment #2356375

    fuck you

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    Comment #2205264

    the funny thing is, this doesn't sound more or less patronizing than anything else that comes out of richard dawkins

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    Comment #2150634

    is this fiction?

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    Comment #2122177

    sorry guys. this site is not worth taking seriously anymore

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    Comment #2113978

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FractionalPart.html

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    Comment #2069519

    and how many studies did he throw away, when they didnt get the statistical significance he was looking for? now lets average all of them together

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    Comment #1961529

    i dont know how to answer a single one of these questions.

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    Comment #1952741

    the last paragraph is the first one you should read in order to decide whether this editorial is worth reading. it is "The right choice is to not worry about the state of Java's op…

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    Comment #1923653

    sounds awful.

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    Comment #1905215

    upvoted for making me laugh

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    Comment #1902368

    the reason there isn't a guaranteed compressor is that a legitimate compressor has to be injective, and there isn't an injective function from, say, {0,1}^[n] to {0,1}^[m] where m …

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    Comment #1902014

    maybe i misunderstood your original comment. can you give an example of the sort of task you argue an algorithm is incapable of completing?

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    Comment #1900433

    uh, what about the information existing in the probability distribution of the english language...

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    Comment #1705108

    haha. is there someone out there who believes you get an education in these subjects by reading those papers that won best paper awards?

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    Comment #1642358

    lolwut? who youre describing is just a really brilliant person, not an "awesome coder"