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I discovered the same thing when I was writing a tool the transmit data to a radio-free (no wifi or Bluetooth) airgapped computer and created a de-facto standard called "qrint". Th…

This entertaining video does a good job of, if not explaining, hinting at the mechanisms that make this possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk

This didn't work on Mac OS due to "wc -L" so I whipped up a python version. https://gist.github.com/richardkiss/4fba0c6bd27eb39a9eb56074...

This didn't work on Mac OS due to "wc -L" so I whipped up a python version.

The following theorem, originally imparted to me by an algebra professor in the UCLA math department (grad school), may be helpful to you when testing yourself: Theorem. All number…

How about let voters make their choices through an election, but then the winner is chosen through lottery with a weighting towards how the voters voted? So if 40% voted for A and …

But I need it NOW!!

I wrote about this last December: http://blog.richardkiss.com/?p=398 The matrix math is easier, and the Python code is about a dozen lines.

Good catch... fixed it. Thanks!!

As a Canadian who has lived in the US for a long time (but who happens to be in Canada at the moment to visit family), I've long thought a European-style union between the two coun…

21 million BTC divided by 7 billion people yields .003 BTC per human. That's 1 BTC for every 333 people. There are fewer than 11.5 million addresses in use, so fewer than 11.5 mill…

The real problem occurs when you want to buy something that costs X, and all the addresses you control have fewer than X coins. You have to join the coins from multiple addresses w…

Comic here. Don't feel bad for not being a storyteller. Most storytellers are a lot less interesting than they think they are.

I wish that were true. I've performed stand-up comedy for nine years. I have an MA in mathematics from UCLA. And have been programming since I was a kid. My humor is definitely mor…

Great book. Tiny audience.

> JustDelete.Me is a directory of urls to delete your account from web services. (Yes, I am aware how terrible that description is. If you’ve got a better one, let me know). How ab…

Like how lnkvu.com works?

f(f(n)) = n^2 is actually easy when you consider it restricted to 32-bit signed integers. Since it's impossible to make it work for any abs(n)>65536 (it's too big), you can reserve…