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Another nice summary of this sort of thing: Fibonacci Flim-Flam http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

This is a video of one of the in-game tutorials (the tutorial is rendered in-game, with the same camera perspective as a player), it does a decent job of explaining the game: https…

Here it is: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...

Yes, Little Snitch can help Safari pass this browser test (the unusual port was a red flag for me).

HyperCard could be added to the list http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-t... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

Britannica articles aren't written by "one person who spent their lifetime researching" that topic.

> Now, in all fairness they do have a cragy coast, but it is very clear the districts are unconscionably gamed. I'm not sure how it was done in the source for that news article, bu…

It's a picture of the NSA headquarters at Ft. Meade. That may be all there is to it.

> On the other hand, you can't really blame Riot... Of course not, they are free to employ whichever model they want. I think his reply was more directed at the statement: "I think…

According to now-declassified documents, the US had the capability but chose not to launch a satellite due to setting legal precedent. I.e., they wanted to launch spy satellites bu…

Related: genetic algorithms to play video games. I can't find the exact one I read about before, which was for Super Mario Bros., but searching for "mario genetic algorithm" leads …

Yes: http://manuels.github.com/texlive.js/website/ -- "This is a port of TeX live 2012 to Javascript." Also related: http://www.mathjax.org/

> The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so His presentation is utter nonsense, but whether he reads …

I think this is a poor substitute for engagement/wedding/etc announcements in the newspaper. While he could, I suppose, buy ad space for an engagement announcement in a newspaper, …

Just a suggestion: I was annoyed when I first tried to drag the slider. I figured out you have to click it instead, but some users may just quit first.

The "earning them a master's" doesn't ruffle my feathers. A master's thesis in itself doesn't mean much; it doesn't have to present new results nor have any impact. Presumably this…

From your link, "Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct" (concerning the "climategate" e-mails).…

Not necessarily of Shipper but I'm sick of these "long conversation" ways of explaining things that don't need to be simplified. This is an almost boringly simple problem (I'm not …