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"In 2005, Matt discovered the best way to deal with Nigerian 413-scams on CraigsList: when someone offers thousands of dollars for your stereo via some phony money-wiring organization, just request a receiver-pays-shipping slip and FedEx them 40 pounds of bricks."
Kevin has discovered the universe's greatest civilization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Van Gogh Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable.
I had the chance while in France to visit Futuroscope by luck. When I found my self in this Cosmos attraction, a huge sphere room watching the universe as a spectator like you are among the stars, has caused me one of the most undescribable, fascinating feelings in my life.
I advice it highly, if you ever find your self in France, go to Futuroscope! Most of the attractions are in AMAZING 3D!
Kevin has discovered the universe's greatest civilization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Van Gogh Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable.
Kevin has discovered the universe's greatest civilization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Van Gogh Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable.
Only if you do not know what the purpose of life is. http://juwo.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-purpose-of-life.html
I actually care a lot about the last question. It often makes me give an application a second look. I don't think the other 3 YC partners care very much about it though.
I'm going to rewrite and resubmit by the deadline tonight, if that's alright.
(As far as I'm concerned it's a long shot. I don't think my idea and my goals for my business line up that well with what YC is really looking for, based on what they've done in the past. So I filled out the form more for myself than for them.)
But then I thought of the best answer to that question -- the most personally meaningful thing I've discovered, something that I don't think anyone else has ever noticed -- over the weekend, and only realized this morning that the deadline had whooshed right by while I was sleeping.
Oops.
I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trite when I first filled out the form, so I left it blank and decided to come back to it later. (As far as I'm concerned it's a long shot. I don't think my idea and my goals for my business line up that well with what YC is really looking for, based on what they've done in the past. So I filled out the form more for myself than for them.) But then I thought of the best…
Finding an algorithm for computing closed forms of indefinite binomial coefficient sums was an open problem in Knuth's Art of Programming; it was solved by Wilf and Zeilberger. In the example I considered, there is no closed form solution; however there is a way of finding a decomposition of the sum with good properties. Finding the asymptotically significant term required an idea: the point is that the algorithms I used don't help you find this. One of those algorithms I used was due to R. W. Gosper, a legendary hacker.
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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Van Gogh Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable.
python_kiss wrote, "Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable". Only if you do not know what the purpose of life is. http://juwo.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-purpose-of-life.html