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"insolation" (think of incoming solar radiation) is distinct from "insulation"

The basic trance problem: kick if i%4 == 0 clap if i%8 == 4 hat if i%8 in [0,2,6,7] bass always, according to some function of i

Given the effort the play a game and the inter-subject noise in a numerical judgement, I think a better use of Mechanical Turk would be to ask the player to do some blame assignmen…

Here's my restatement of the statistical approach (correct me if I'm wrong): Instead of proposing some metric for fun that is valid a-priori, we are going to look for the very grou…

It's natural to question how someone can unproblematically pose a metric on the value of game rulesets (particularly without a generous helping of philosophy and psychology to back…

I'm in grad school for AI right now as a result of reading about Eurisko as a kid . Though I haven't followed up on the greater vision, my thesis proposal a few years ago pitched t…

Before you jump to evolutionary algorithms, note "The Problem with Evolution" section in the OP. This was written by a guy who knows what he's doing with evolution, and it's intere…

Oh, and here's a sudoku solver in 15 source lines with ASP: http://asparagus.cs.uni-potsdam.de/encoding/show/id/3540 Also, a sudoku puzzle generator directly incorporating the uniq…

You might enjoy answer set programming (ASP). It's a different take on logic programming based on the idea of automatically transforming your problem into a SAT-like representation…

I had the core idea of this in 2006 (binary coded patterns of small magnets for position and orientation sensitivity), but... didn't follow up. Looks like they are doing some inter…

If so, then it's all the more true that now is the time to invest attention in learning how the internet works at all of its layers. When the time comes, you can be part of those w…

(seconding your claim that this is an interesting new social dynamic) In the quasi-whimsical view of Anonymous as a legitimate internet-dwelling mentality, it's these definedly gro…

On a meta-note: I deeply enjoy that linking to Wikipedia articles is part of HN culture. If that which is timely cannot be timeless, then it is of supreme importance that what is N…

Has anyone considered generalizing these to voxels -- adding details to minecraft style spaces?

"Deliberate practice" is, in fact, what Gladwell is saying the 10,000 hours should measure.

It's not that Prolog necessarily backtracks to find the final solution. It's the forward computation that actually builds the solution, backtracking only when one can't be found wi…

None of these reasons is a Technical Explanation.

Thanks for doing some extraction! Using your file I've been building up a solver for these questions in Prolog (using DCGs for parsing and simple predicates for the common sense fa…

Even if you don't find a way to use anything out of the functional-logical space, reading about languages like this can change the way you program when you are in a functional-only…

LBO = "leveraged buyout" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout

For reference, a 2000 Calorie per day diet translates to about 100 Watts.