bhrgunatha

The scatterlpots [1] of the time taken for the leaderboard (top 100) to finish part 1 (silver) and part 2 (gold) are a better indicator of difficulty.

I'd like to see a plot of average (median or mode) to finish each part but only the site has all that information.

[1] http://www.maurits.vdschee.nl/scatterplot/

The brilliance of the problem is that you're led to think that the odds have changed.

I think there's a psychological component too. So many probability questions are about random events so you (very naturally) take a position that the revealed door is randomly chosen. It is NOT - you always see one of the goats.

University Of Washington CSEP501: Compiler Construction http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep501/

Keith Schwartz Stanford Compiler course CS143 http://www.keithschwarz.com/cs143/

Stanford's Engineering Compiler course on Lagunita https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

Matt Might's courses are self educational blueprints http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/

Book Introduction to Compilers and Language Design https://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/compilerbook/

I'm not a fan of uncurated link dumps, however: Awesome compilers link aggregation on Github https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers

Some artists truly are unique. and I think Ott falls into that category.

Entheogenic, Slackbaba or Globular are probably the closest you'll find.

I get far more engrossed with books than listening to audio plus listening to a story makes me feel tired which I think is a hangover from bedtime stories as a kid.

In C# @"..." are verbatim strings - useful for capturing characters without having to escape them.

There used to be a page that showed the view from a webcam located wherever the sun was currently rising as you viewed the page.

Can't find it any more though - probably been removed.

I spent a huge amount of time playing around with a demo of SSEYO Koan Pro which Eno used to make Generative Music 1 [1] and which evolved over time into Wotja by Intermorphic [2]. It's about time I tried Wotja out!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music

[2] https://intermorphic.com/wotja/

I like the rough guideline to change from eating vegetables/juicing fruit to juicing vegetables/eating fruit.

I love that talk. Raymond Hettinger is a gem. What I took from that is the implementation does preserve order but it isn't guaranteed yet and in theory it could change.

No need for an extension.

Reader view doesn't always work though (at least in Firefox.) You can use the icon in the URL bar or CTRL + ALT + R to open reader view.

Firefox does some detective work to choose whether to show the reader view icon but using the keyboard shortcut used to work regardless. Recently it seems even the keyboard shortcut doesn't work unless the icon is visible - I think becausethe heuristic for showing the icon is more accurate these days.

The amortized cost of prepend (unshift in ruby) is O(1) (since Ruby 2). Of course that means at some point you'll get O(n) prepend.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8353026/what-is-the-run-...

There are 2 forms of range in ruby: inclusive 2 dots - 1..5 => 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and exclusive 3 dots 1...5 => 1, 2, 3, 4

It's always felt deeply counter-intuitive to me because .. feels like it represents less than ... but that's a separate discussion.

My favourite Fizzbuzz articles 50 Fizzbuzzes [1] and Fizzbuzz in Tensorflow [2].

[1] http://vihart.com/fifty-fizzbuzzes/

[2] http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/

I use Stylus with a set of rules to increase contrast and change the font. Just changing the font (with default weight 400) has a huge effect on legibility.

Stylus - https://add0n.com/stylus.html

Sorry I didn't mean equipment, I meant artist recommendations.

Any recommendations for modern artists?

I vividly remember a sense of total awe watching it, thinking here we are, watching a broadcast from inside the JPL - as it happens! - of a craft in a totally new, complex method of landing after travelling and being guided millions of kilometres.

What struck me in particular was the sense of wonder at being able to see that first image of the wheel - transmitted across the globe live as they received it.

Such a privilege and accomplishment.

The oh-my-zsh git plugin [1] aliases have become second nature.

No need to install oh-my-zsh you can just take the file or cherry pick (!) the useful ones.

I may drop oh-my-zsh completely and just set up zsh with the small subset of plugins I use.

[1] https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/tree/master/plugin...

Freakonomics podcast had an episode on apologies recently - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/apologies/ - one of the more interesting things discussed was how the start and end of the apology has a dominating impact. It seems people are incredibly sharp at recognising insincerity too. I'd say github did a great job here.

Dev tools to fix sites during one off visits and Stylus for regular visits. Stylus is an absolutely essential add-on for me in recent years.

It's useless trying to convince the world to have sane, readable text size and contrast on desktop. Firefox reader view doesn't work well with interactive pages.

According to Rosetta Code Algol 68 had string interpolation. [1]

It'd be interesting to see if there are any older languages that supported it too.

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/String_interpolation_(included)...

Futility Closet podcast Ep 218 had a section on plus codes this/last week, including what3words and parodies like what 2 numbers - Lat, Lon! They have the full list of links.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/09/24/podcast-episode-21...

!bang is more helpful I think

!bang hacker news

!bang stack exchange

!bang hoogle

...

What about user lock-out?

Natural minor scale as opposed to harmonic or melodic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale

It usually means the main, default or preferred application.

Same here - the front matter page mentions web components - perhaps the support is different /disabled in Firefox?

The <sql-exercise data-question...> elements aren't visible in Firefox at all.

I'm not sure what the relationship between channels and users is. I think it's many-to-many and I'm aware of 3 feed types:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<username>  
    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel id>  
    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<playlist id>  

Would love to hear if there are more.

I agree the transcription is awful, but would you say it's unrecognisable?