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A first approximation for a strategy would be to follow a boustrophedon, and keep 2, 4 and 8 near the top, e.g. something like this: . . . . . 4 2 . 8 16 32 . 512 256 128 64

If you're really determined, you can use `.` as an operator via __getattr__ and inspect :p

Tried 3 games, and the scores were 2700, 1200, 5000. So maybe. But then I wrote a function to play it for me: var manager = new GameManager(4, KeyboardInputManager, HTMLActuator); …

I started working on a similar thing last year [0]. In my version, your pieces can see any spot on the board they are allowed to move to. [0] https://github.com/valtron/fog

I would be inclined to agree; that value is _not_ entirely caused by scarcity. (Though I will point out that if a resource is scarce, people might put more value on it and try to a…

The creation of a new coin has no bearing on the scarcity of another. Scarcity is just one requirement for something to act as a currency; another would be that it can be exchanged…

No, but I just checked a few of the sites we made and none break from ctrl+ (regarding this: I've never seen a non-tech person, i.e. 99% of traffic for the sites, use shortcuts in …

When I used to work with my designer friend, he would tell me to do things like that: increase this padding by 5px, lighten the color by a little, slightly decrease the border-radi…

Are you supposed to get it to go through the space between the "stars"? Is it even possible? Edit: Got my first point (50 - 100 tries?). You need to make it go a full orbit without…

You only need to worry about this if you're doing 100k+ LIST requests. For me, turning off validate would save 0.2%.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic... but if not, this is the first legitimate use of uncyclopedia as a source I've seen.

It depends on the rules of the game. Maybe the rules of life are competitive: you can only increase your score at someone else's expense. The score is either 0-1 or 1-0. (Maybe you…

Cool!

I can see this being much better than Yelp. How are you doing the recommendations? Something along the lines of PageRank?

Rejoice! No more event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead.

There's only one way to add a finite list of numbers, but several ways to "add" infinite lists. Ramanujan summation is just one way. There are also other ways to define "addition" …

Achilles runs at 1 unit/s and Tortoise at x Well first, Achilles has to travel 1 unit because Tortoise got a head start. That takes 1s. By then, Tortoise managed to run x units, so…

If cryptocurrencies take off, banks are simply going to store keys for people instead of physical money. For the layperson, nothing will change. However, with cryptocurrency, the g…

He makes a good point about infinite MAD vs. STD.

Don't points 2 & 3 together imply that anything that uses built-ins, which I assume are implemented with C FFI, is `unsafe`?

A former coworker did his master's thesis on playing Atari games using RL. Here's a video of it learning to play Freeway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44CilPmlimQ

It's composed of two images with transparent backgrounds. The foreground on one of the images consists only of white, and on the other only of black. Depending on what color's behi…

Also worth reading: http://llvm.lyngvig.org/Articles/Mapping-High-Level-Construc...

"I have a two children, one of which is a boy. What's the probability the other is a boy?" Intuition wrongly treats the possibilities as sets and assigns probabilities 1/2 BB, 1/2 …

Also works for sorting strings in alphabetical order.