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ZirconCode··on Python 3.5 to Ship with Matrix Multiplication Operator
Why not just a *

As in how ruby does it: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/matrix/rdoc/Matrix...

ZirconCode··on Ethereum, Bitcoin’s most ambitious successor
When the country of law is disputed between two parties, very often Swiss law is chosen as a fair alternative. I believe this is what is meant.
ZirconCode··on How the Most Expensive Game Jam Crashed And Burned in a Single Day
But the article is pretty much the answer to that question, isn't it? People from enormously different backgrounds came together, they stood in the face of inciting commentary/questions. I imagine that, as with the trolling, it is more difficult to protect your viewpoints in person than online.
ZirconCode··on Google Maps now lets you find and catch wild Pokémon
https://www.ingress.com/
ZirconCode··on When, not if: how do San Franciscans live with the threat of the next quake?
That is mostly because of war, and not due to natural disasters.
ZirconCode··on [dead]
I think this is a response to the recent TED talk where the same question was asked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY

The host provides the theory that the vote is not biased based on left or right wing beliefs.

ZirconCode··on Accept my accept-language
This. I travel a lot, I've had this happen too often. Sometimes they even lock payment methods based on where you are, it's horrible.
ZirconCode··on How I stay calm, by people with very stressful jobs
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/06/13/minor-stressful-even...

"mildly stressful situations can affect our perceptions in the same way as life-threatening ones"

The article is a bit foggy, but I think it gets the point across.

ZirconCode··on ArnoldC – A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners
"I'LL BE BACK is the keyword for RETURN "
ZirconCode··on Google's robots.txt
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=http...

Turns up three results in google. Very weird indeed.

ZirconCode··on My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how
Just upvote the rest instead. That's what I did. Eventually this shit will sink to the bottom.
ZirconCode··on Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
Gwern has a great write-up on this: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#adderall Of course it's only one data point, but a high quality one imo.

edit: Just saw him linked below, should've read first -_-

ZirconCode··on Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show
Actually Switzerland will most likely have to take this action itself, as the Swiss law now contradicts itself in this aspect.
ZirconCode··on Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show
Even the voting booklets were pretty biased against passing (IMO of course), although I'm not surprised at this result. The type of xenophobia often attributed to hillbillies in american culture is a lot more common in Switzerland than I expected. The sad thing is most people I've meet which hold this belief, could themselves be considered foreigners.
ZirconCode··on Regex Golf
For "6. A man, a plan", I thought it was impossible to match palindromes with regex, am I wrong?
ZirconCode··on Regex Golf
There are good patterns, the first regex for me was /foo/, the second /ick$/, for example. They're there.
ZirconCode··on Free Mathematics Books
I want this. It reminds me a bit of KhanAcademys knowledge maps, on a higher level of course (https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard).
ZirconCode··on IBM Research produces staph-killing polymers that leave healthy cells alone
Iodised Salt?

It possibly can be a good thing, yes we should be cautious, but I think it's rash to judge it negatively from the very start.

ZirconCode··on YouTube hilariously impotent against ASCII comment pornographers
I suppose the only way to combat this is to combat ASCII art in general?

This would make a very interesting paper on machine learning.

ZirconCode··on 33 Questions
Just use:

- Birthday (19~ bits)

- Rough Location (remaining bits)

And base the questions around those two, for example, where you born on a 1-15th, does the city you were born in start with the letter's a-k. This part would be an exercise in statistics, I would think.

edit: And one bit for if you were the first to be born of two identical twins =p

ZirconCode··on Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
Second, was about to post this. This guy is amazing. Entertaining and easy to follow, even for beginning players.
ZirconCode··on Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (2009)
I'm waiting for Ruby. Or JavaScript. It's going to happen some day.

This reminds me a lot of xmonad. I guess higher level languages are migrating downwards to the system level slowly.

ZirconCode··on This seem legit...
No, they're just the only ones dumb enough to get caught ;)
ZirconCode··on A Bouncing Ball To Make Danger Zones Safer
Actually they could cost the same. It just said under 3000.
ZirconCode··on Carrot Dating - Date people by 'bribing' them
I wonder what kind of people sign up to this... Then again, maybe they fit together.
ZirconCode··on New global index exposes 'modern slavery' worldwide
Googles Cache of globalslaveryindex.org is a GoDaddy place holder -_-

Also during the trans-atlantic slave trade, around 13 million slaves were estimated. These estimates would amount to around the same without India (and we have much larger population today).

ZirconCode··on How Seinfeld's Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem
Exact Same here, I'm in the process of trying to get back on my feet, do you have any advice on what helped you most?
ZirconCode··on Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility
Big enough player won't have one coin limit...
ZirconCode··on LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
This looks amazing, especially for the "anti-social programmer" types. Or people with no experience in this region of work (ie. me) could easily use the data to learn.

Is this service designed to be used from the very first, or only once the product has been rolling for a bit? Any experience with this?

Also was hoping for a profit based pricing model but can't complain there.

ZirconCode··on Day 180: Finished
Sure you can. Answer a hard stackoverflow question in your favorite field, Voila, you learn something, or need to connect the dots.
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