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Chapter 8.1 shows an awesome algorithm!

This sort of distraction arises whenever we try to adjust logic to words and not the other way around. It is said that this kind of distinction is only relevant to scientists. The …

Life has an awesome way of turning disaster into opportunity!

Very good results and embarrassingly easy to implement! The very stretched waveform did contain some audible artifacts, but I think other methods like FFT would introduce some as w…

I bet a super-intelligent alien ethologist would interpret our society as a living thing. I'm almost sure there are anthropologists who share the same view :) The study of multi-or…

I bet every biology student has struggled with the introductory "what is life" chapter, full of conflicting definitions. It is so difficult to define life because there is nothing …

I like using trigonometric functions for other things beyond rotations. For instance, a cropped sine ( [-pi/2,3pi/2] ), remapped to [0,1] in both axes is very handy as a smooth-ste…

It fails to address an important aspect of learning by projects: Being exposed to the problems. You are orders of magnitude more productive when learning the solutions to problems …

When I was little, my dad had a DOS PC in his office. I remember writing a quadratic equation solver in QBasic. It was so unbelievably fast compared to struggling with pen and pape…

As of 2018, Greece charges €0.04 / bag. Albeit very effective, I don't know how to feel about the actual contents of my new multi-use bag. Almost every food item is packed in a sin…

Reminds me of Bertrand Russell who used to write English in Greek characters to keep his diary private as a child :) (Anecdote from "Logicomix" graphic novel)

Chances are, older people have been deceived more. This is a reason to be a bit more sceptical upon meeting a new person. While this may be subtle in itself, the very assumption th…

Never expected that something could be blamed for being too useful. Or did I? To tell you the truth it always seemed like there's an awful lot of logic in the way internet works . …

Of course, the same method can be applied to reading other people's code. Actually, that's analogous to what Franklin did. He tried to capture the essence of a finished work of whi…

All of these are already handled by facebook and such. Maybe involving something useful in the process would justify a new service. For instance look at language exchange, which is…

Awesome. Stuff I found interesting: Triangle and Square waves have only "odd" harmonics: 3x, 5x, 7x of the base frequency and so on... Sawtooth has even & odd harmonics. Sound "bri…