KhalilK

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GitHub: khllkcm

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KhalilKon Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?

I immediately thought of Russell's paradox[0] but turns out they are indeed related[1].

0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Application...

KhalilKon Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

Facebook's "Anonymous" Login[0] is still in beta.

0.https://developers.facebook.com/products/anonymous-login/

KhalilKon The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces

Not to mention the fact that it's the first decent city building game that runs on Linux!

KhalilKon Welcome Peter

> (now 10!)

Read that as a factorial and giggled.

KhalilKon Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life

I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black Jewish woman

Okay, being a female involved in what seems to be a male-dominated event might be a bit uncomfortable but how does being a black jewish relate?

More precisely what does being Jewish have to do with anything?!

KhalilKon EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis

Care to elaborate?

KhalilKon Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

There is an imitation[0] of this idea in which many Cantonese proverbs are illustrated.

0.https://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/cantonese-p...

KhalilKon Search On Math

but that should probably be specified somewhere on the site.

If you check the Extensions tab[0] you'll find that it says it searches those websites.

0.http://searchonmath.com/extensions

KhalilKon How Canadian Spies Infiltrated the Internet's Core

"and even the content of unencrypted communications"

hmmmm

KhalilKon The Pentagon’s electromagnetic ‘rail gun’ makes its public debut

physics

hmmm I am pretty sure it's the other way around.

KhalilKon Project Euler's 500th problem

I was just pointing it out :)

I solved 50 of them, I usually use Java, or Mathematica which feels...cheaty but sometimes all it takes is a paper and a pencil.

KhalilKon Project Euler's 500th problem

Only friends' progress can be viewed, sharing this picture[0] would do the job ;)

0.https://projecteuler.net/profile/joshstrange.png

KhalilKon Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift

You can use TunesViewer[0] if you are on Linux.

0.http://sourceforge.net/projects/tunesviewer/

KhalilKon [dead]

Although it offers an interesting thought to consider, this paper is pretty much gibberish from a scientific perspective.

Scott Aaronson has written a response to this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591

KhalilKon Whatsapp Web

Same here.

KhalilKon How to mod a toaster to control PC games [video]

    <meta name="keywords" content="pc games, doom, brutal doom, toaster, satire, matt swarthout, vexal, funny, Parody, technology, model m, hamilton beach, oster red toaster, microcontroller, ...">

KhalilKon The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

huh?

oooookay.

KhalilKon The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

is there something particular about Numb3rs that applies to this discussion?

Yes, it enumerates real-world applications of mathematics in fields other than Physics/Chemistry, of which you said you were skeptical.

This is mainly because the math doesn't actually tell you something that you qualitatively didn't already know.

So I take it that the depth of mathematics is determined by its ability to predict?

KhalilKon The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

I am highly skeptical whenever I see people trying to apply deep mathematics outside physics and chemistry

I don't understand exactly what you mean by deep mathematics but you should watch Numb3rs. And before I get yelled at for recommending a TV series when it comes to mathematics, here http://numb3rs.wolfram.com/

KhalilKon Personify.js – JS Library That Integrates IBM Watson and the Twitter API

https://github.com/philelauria/PersonifyApp

KhalilKon ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” Hacks Pentagon Social Profiles, Leaks Files

sigh

http://www.army.mil/

KhalilKon The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture

This book was recommended to me as extremely detail-oriented, and extremely detail-oriented it was! Fun, engrossing and really entertaining, specially if you are a KSP fan like myself. I have added it to my list of books to inspire my kids. So if they ever come to me and say, "Dad, what is chemistry good for?" I can just give them The Martian and say, "read this and you'll know", they will be calculating limiting reagents as if their lives depended on it!

KhalilKon Show HN: Facebook Page Unliker

Selenium it is, then.

KhalilKon Show HN: Facebook Page Unliker

Brilliant!

What about an "Unlike all" button?

KhalilKon Why are free proxies free? (2013)

tautology? Seems like the HN community abhors rigour.

KhalilKon Why are free proxies free? (2013)

Not all middle schools around the world have computers for student use, let alone internet access.

KhalilKon Top physics breakthroughs of 2014

It already said "Acoustic"[0] ;)

0. = "Definitely not in a vacuum"

KhalilKon Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (2010)

When I am feeling good, I train a lot. When I feel bad, I don’t bother.

I can definitely relate to that when it comes to my studies, too bad it's not yielding any good results.

KhalilKon Almost all numbers contain the digit “3” [video]

It is an April Fools' video, nothing to see here.

KhalilKon The Long Road to Maxwell’s Equations

Are you studying in the US?

No, Tunisia, 2nd year of CPGE (Maths/Physics), French curriculum.

What's different about these four?

It's just the names, what matters is the equations themselves I believe, the names only reflect their history (except for that third one indeed, it seems like a description but that's the actual name used[0] )

0.http://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/%C3%89lectromagn%C3%A9tisme_d...