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There is Compression done by Prediction by partial matching [0] There is the Kolmogorov Complexity [1], Normalized Information Distance [2] and Normalized compression distance [3] …

Some years later, Goto was considered harmful :-)

In 2013 there was some question about the SuperCow Powers that some programs had. I took time to ask Jason Gunthorpe about it. He didn't answer my email: we make a post about it [1…

It seems similar to just regular marketing. Previously, beverages and drugs companies have used the same playbook, and data analysis just got better. Social sites are just the next…

Seems a lot like Normalized Compression Distance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_compression_distanc... ) and Kolmogorov Complexity.

Brazil has the same. It's possible to login in the government platform by your bank login. Simplifies a lot for the general population that won't use password managers and so on. A…

Perhaps this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence

C= |2p - 1| doesn't do what the author wishes. Should be c =|2p|-1

A cell phone vibrating in your pocket: in the first days, after some days of use, many people would feel it vibrating as a muscle sensation, not as external thing vibrating.

Well, that actually happens a lot, with many causes. For example: manager is perfectionist (at some level), it takes more time to delegate than doing it yourself, there's some atti…

But the patchset should use the same license as the original code, shouldn't?

Reverse: perhaps carrying a measuring tape [0] ? [0] https://www.amazon.com/Measure-iBayam-Measuring-Measurement-...

> tighter I found it amusing, considering all those memes about German words with 35 letters each. And, as I get older, I began to consider letter size relevant to choose a book ed…

Didn't expect Brazil being off the "List of Countries Qualifying for APC Waivers" Knowing the reality of the Brazilian's public universities, the bureaucracy of the Government and …

And good students are getting in trouble (meaning "have to explain themselves") to lousy teachers just because they write well, articulate ideas and can summarize information from …

I never understood how any exams results aren't given to the person and are hold by the doctor/hospital/company.

And now I know why the default font was changed in Word. Arg. Don't think I like Times New Roman but it was the recommend font for academic papers in Brazil (and the recommendation…

"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in AR glasses?" Things that I haven't thought but, after seeing it, makes total sense. Scary.

When you go through a problem and have to solve it, you learn to see patterns (of mistakes) and develop a sense for similar problems. Outsourcing the thinking will speed you up for…

It's interesting to see that the bamboo are still holding it's structure despite all the fire. And that having one flammable material in all floors (the window-protecting foam) com…

I'll just leave this one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15075384

I'm pretty sure Brazil doesn't have a law saying that Google must forbid sideload. I'm sure that government (be it President, Central Bank etc) doesn't pressure Google about it. I'…