lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Design of a hyperstable 60-subunit protein icosahedron
"... attached to it with atomic specificity" - and then what?
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lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go
They cracked some vulnerability in HN ranking algo. "Go" is a magic word
lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability
This seems to be changing. Hardware is trying to move closer to java -by adding support of GC, bounds checks, etc - something that won't help C programs as much.
lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Redcon – Fast Redis-compatible server framework for Go
BTW, where's the guy who replies "What an amazing time to be alive!" to every go post? I'm worried.
lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Redcon – Fast Redis-compatible server framework for Go
The main problem of rust is that it's not implemented in go. The reverse is also true.
lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Prime After Prime
No, I meant something different.
Let's consider primes, say, between 1 and 1000000. a) Compute the number of cases when p is prime AND p+2 is prime; b) number of cases when p is prime AND p+4 is prime; c) number of cases when p is prime AND p+6 is prime.
My claim is that a is approx. equal to b, and c is approx. equal to 2a (which is the same as 2b). You can easily test it (which I did), and it's easy to see why.
lohankin | 9 years ago | on: Prime After Prime
Let p-prime. Consider 3 "probabilities": a) p+2 is prime; b) p+4 is prime; c) p+6 is prime. Obviously p(c)=2p(a)=2p(b).
Probability of p+30 being prime is even higher.
lohankin | 10 years ago | on: A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
Possible generalization (example):
23=(7)3+(2);
7=(2)3+(1);
2=(0)3+(2);
0=(0)3+(0);
Take only remainders, and form a vector a=(2 1 2 0) What can be said about components of the vector for the prime next to p? E.g., do i-th components repel, like the 1-st ones?
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Explore the ownership system in Rust
By taking away the ability of programmer to read and understand the code written by somebody else, or by himself 1 week ago
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Explore the ownership system in Rust
Noisy, unreadable code, obsessed with ownership, may give rise to whole new classes of errors that otherwise won't be there. Good that someone experimented with building a language around ownership, but for me it all demonstrates that the idea is not viable. I tried to read 10 tutorials already, each leaving me more confused than ever before.
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Explore the ownership system in Rust
Some serious voodoo science is going on here, with a good chance to become a next fad. Programming is difficult as it is, but apparently not difficult enough for someone's taste.
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Web MIDI API
are there ready-to-use soft synthesizers for specific instruments, e.g. piano?
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Virtjs, an ES6 emulation library
doesn't work for me on Chrome. What exactly is this emulator supposed to emulate?
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Mojulo – Pixelated Math Rendering Sandbox Toy
Behavior becomes more interesting if you replace (in any formula) time with (time+sin(time)) - and, more generally, with (time+ksin(wtime))
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Author makes generalizations based on her own individual experience - the process which she doesn't understand.
Rot-learning in music (mentioned as example of good practice) produces millions of classically-trained musicians that don't understand anything about music, and can't play even Christmas song by ear.
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
Much simpler derivation of Lorentz transform: http://www.jackpenkethman.com/speedoflight/speedoflight.html
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Emscripten and asm.js: C++'s role in the modern web
There was a recent article on code optimization technique in Safari involving on-the-fly javascript -> LLVM compilation. So the entire chain now will look as C++ -> LLVM -> javascript (asm.js) -> LLVM
Things are getting curiouser by the day...
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: Shadertoy adds procedural GPU-generated music in the browser
Sorry for the question that might be a bit off-topic. Will we ever have support for sound fonts in a browser? E.g. piano sound fonts? With at least rudimentary support for MIDI (e.g. noteOn, noteOff)?
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: The Mediocrity Principle
> To assume humans are not special among all life is to ignore evolution and our dominant position on Earth.
And bacteria didn't evolve during last 2 billion years, right? Whoever downvoted me: you can't have it both ways. Average means average. We are not dominant species on Earth - bacteria is. I can imagine how they would laugh reading about such preposterous idea. No, I'm not kidding. I firmly believe we were created by bacteria by intentional effort, and every cell of our body is a specialized bacteria. One of them (probably, neuron) believes he is "me". But you won't like the idea, hence the objection. Simply NOT LIKE. Nothing to do with science or principles, just arrogance and pride. Please continue downvoting.
lohankin | 11 years ago | on: The Mediocrity Principle
What follows immediately from the principle is that humans are not special among species. We are average. Most of the life on Earth is bacteria life. At least half of bacteria must be more intelligent than we are. Instead of pursuing futile AI idea, we need to find a way to cooperate with bacteria, as equal partners, and make use of their talents.