Rumors, fads, memes - they jump from mind to mind like a benign contagion. Many of them are beneficial (and some downright vital) just like biological germs, so it's hardly a value judgment. Yet ( Read more... )

First! My old version of python lacks "bin(x)" as that was new in 2.6, I have 2.5. So I wrote my own:

lebin = lambda a:(a>1 and str(a%2)+lebin(a/2)) or (a==1 and "1") or ""
Then I was interested in all little-endian binary expansions that lack '11' anywhere within them, then end with '11' (def: fibonacci codes), and are 8 bits long or less:

[j+'1' ( Read more... )

Just a fun thought experiment ( Read more... )

Suppose you've got a file. It contains 2 A's, 4 B's, 2 C's. 8 letters altogether. The file begins "BCBC". It interests me to know how an arithmetic range encoder represents that prefix. It represents it like this: The first part of the code tells you how many of which letters are in the file. The second part of the code tells you what order those ( Read more... )

Need a random 5 bits? Need a day of the month? Two dice rolls, one at a time.

1 2 3 4 5 6
| | | | | |
1 - 0 1 2 3 4 5
2 - 6 7 8 9 10 11
3 - 12 13 14 15 16 17
4 - 18 19 20 21 22 23
5 - 24 25 26 27 28 29
6 - 30 31 32 33 34 35

If humans are lousy at rock, paper, scissors, what does that tell you about our ability to be

echo "hello, world" | gpg --force-mdc -c | gpg -d ( Read more... )

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/floreen/ -- Patrik Floréen (PhD, Adjunct Professor) Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum ... - by Christopher S Wallace - 456 pages ( Read more... )

No medicine.

Didn't get sick.

*tickertape*

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/brennan/brennan_att_inline_djgpp.html -- Brennan's Guide to Inline Assembly ( Read more... )

I'm glad he didn't quit.
Next, let me say to you that, if I understood you, with a trespass on credibility that excels your stupidness, you said that our position had changed since I spoke here the other day because of the pressures of world opinion and the majority of the United Nations. Well, let me say to you, sir, you are wrong again. We have ( Read more... )