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vignesh_m··on The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
That's basically because our definition of second is no longer based on the rotation of the earth. If it was it would be exactly that.
vignesh_m··on A Well-Known Expert on Student Loans Is Not Real
I dont really understand how those stats would help the company. Can anyone enlighten me? I only have a cursory understanding of how student loans work - students buy loans to pay college fees and stuff right.
vignesh_m··on Mathematics I Use (2012)
I'm very skeptical about the applicability of group theory to computer science - outside of the usual applications to counting/combinatorics and crypto/number theory.
vignesh_m··on Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
Wow that is long
vignesh_m··on Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush
Contrary to what the title may imply, he doesnt shit on Office and say its a bad product.
vignesh_m··on Elixir 1.5 released
I've tried functional languages (Haskell) before and found them fun, but couldn't find a good project I can use them in.

Can someone suggest a fun project, which can showcase the features of functional programming?

vignesh_m··on Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python
I found http://r-statistics.co/ggplot2-Tutorial-With-R.html helpful to learn about the gglplot "grammar of graphs"
vignesh_m··on Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python
If this is an implementation of ggplot2, what does it offer over http://ggplot.yhathq.com/?

I don't mean to undermine your project, just wanted to know about significant differences.

vignesh_m··on Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them
Congrats, pretty cool game.

Any simple strategies you guys came up with?

vignesh_m··on Show HN: JavaScript Cache Size Measurement
Are there distinct lines at 32k, 256k, 4M because of different levels of caches? I feel like 32k is the L1 cache and so on.
vignesh_m··on Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged [pdf]
this is a totally unbiased article in the The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.
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