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jreimers | 10 years ago | on: How I became an artist

Humorous, but relevant. PHP and Wordpress are derided by many, perhaps rightfully so. Despite many well founded claims against them they remain ubiquitous.

Which metric do we use to define success here? Can shitty software be considered successful just because everyone uses it?

jreimers | 10 years ago | on: Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B

"Altera’s devices can have their function updated, even after they’ve been installed in end-devices. While they’re sold in relatively small volumes, programmable logic usually requires the latest in production technology because it’s some of the largest chips in the industry."

Somebody at Bloomberg is obviously a little confused about FPGAs.

jreimers | 11 years ago | on: Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids

So 11% of people who attended public universities are "thriving", and 4% of people who attended private universities are thriving. That means somewhere between 89 and 96 percent of people who attended university are not thriving. This paints a pretty dismal picture of the utility of a university degree for those who want to thrive, white middle class kids or otherwise.

jreimers | 11 years ago | on: The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

I am interested to know what the correlation is between uncertainty and returns. Are companies that succeed in highly uncertain spaces more profitable than those which succeed in well known markets? If you include companies that fail in uncertain spaces, is the average return still greater than those in more certain markets?

I would think yes, otherwise we would all be sticking with mining precious metals.

jreimers | 11 years ago | on: This pitch-deck is a beauty

The deck looks nice but I am still very unsure of what the product actually is.

Full disclosure: OP is the Design & Product advisor for this company

jreimers | 11 years ago | on: Langton's ant

Interesting "art" can be generated by running the algorithm against a random initial map.

Edit: adjusting the density of the initial map seems to result in different patterns appearing in the output

http://jsfiddle.net/2yxyno52/4/

jreimers | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Prisoner's dilemma tournament with bots that can simulate each other

I am curious as to how this will work.

How does bot A simulate bot B that must simulate bot A to determine its answer? Seems like infinite trampoline recursion.

EDIT: it seems you run the simulation against a different bot implementation than the running one and attempt to determine its characteristics given the responses and the known behaviour of the other implementation.

jreimers | 11 years ago | on: Recovering SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Ocean Landing Video

The earlier blocks being corrupted would affect later blocks because the later blocks are encoded as the difference from the previous block, hence the error of the previous block propagates even if the later blocks are correct.

jreimers | 12 years ago | on: WebGL Equation Plot

Cool! I made half a sphere with 0.5+sqrt(0.2-((x-0.5)^2+(y-0.5)^2)). If there was a way to do a mirroring on the xy plane (as in a +/- z value) it could be a full one.
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