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beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: The exercise habit

For calorie burning short intensive work outs are better. For example, deadlifts or playing squash for 30minutes is comparable to multiple hours of jogging.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: Meetings.io - Simple, online meetings

The problem, I experience, is not that action items are missing. The point is that you must write the name of the responsible person next to each action item. Maybe even her email, so people can nag her. If possible, set deadlines.

However, the problem seems to be an inherently social one. I cannot imagine any etherpad plugin or something to help with this.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: Meetings.io - Simple, online meetings

The best online meeting tool in my opinion is etherpad.

The meeting starts with a document containing the agenda. Now everybody chats and rewrites the agenda into a protocol of the decisions made. Meeting ends.

Pros: The discussion is usually clearer, because you talk about text. No need to talk about old protocols, which are written afterwards.

Cons: Does not solve the problem that usually nobody feels responsible afterwards.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

I think you should market your manual process more aggressively. Generating from templates is easy and cheap, but that a professional graphic artist is doing it, makes quite a difference.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

Would you be impressed by more subtle qualities? Let's say a design with special effects, but printed with a professional printer on thicker paper. Maybe subtle effects like watermarks or micro embossing.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: RESTful thinking considered harmful

I do not think your blog examples goes beyond REST. You just need to represent different resources. For example a "title list" or "article set".

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: RESTful thinking considered harmful

Nearly correct. POST does not specify the name of the resource. So you do

  /orders/42 # with { order: { paid: true  } }
And it returns the /orders/42/payment transaction resource.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: A Better Strategy for Hangman

I have to correct myself. You do not want a 50% chance, because the answer does not provide 1Bit of information. If we get it right, we also know the position(s) of the letter.

More precisely: Given a dictionary of all possible words and a letter to guess, we can split the dictionary into k parts. One sub-dictionary contains all words for which the answer is negative. Additionally, we have k-1 sub-dictionaries for each equivalence class of letter positions.

For each letter, we can compute the partition. Now we need to choose the strategically best partition. I believe it should be the one with "the lowest average sub-dictionary size".

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: A Better Strategy for Hangman

Assuming there is always a letter with a 50% chance and we choose wrong 11 times in a row. One more and game over. At this point we have 11 Bits of information, which is enough to distuingish between 2048 words.

Actually, we should be correct 50% of the time. Which means 22 Bits of information or 4194304 words.

Additionally, we know the length of the word.

The english dictionaries seem to have between 400k and 1000k words [0] of all word sizes. With 22 Bits we get 4000k words. We do not have to worry about getting hanged using the information-reduction algorithm. ;)

[0] http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JohnnyLing.shtml

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: A Better Strategy for Hangman

If you want to minimize the number of errors, you should try the letter with the most information. In other words, minimize the search space. That is what hythloday suggested.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: XeTeX: could it be TeX's saviour?

The mission of TeXLive is to include everything and the kitchen sink. However, why should their TeXpad support everything? They could go the XeTeX+biber+TikZ route and educate their users how to switch from pdflatex,bibtex,pstricks,etc.

beza1e1 | 14 years ago | on: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?

Off-topic: Generating slides from an outliner like Org-mode produces those ugly bullet points en mass, doesn't it? The upside is of course, that they are easy and fast to generate. Why do you need that?
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