Tomas Rokicki

Just another hacker.

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@StachuDotNet What OS?

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@qu_ark @robinhouston But does the resulting circuit function correctly? If so, under what input constraints?

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@BruceHoult Main difference: how is the support? Teensy support is great.

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@igblan Independent verification of computational results is important, and of course computing 1B values is a stepping stone to computing 2B values.

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I have downloaded Wolfram's "billion bits of Rule 30" and validated all billion bits as being correct.

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@igblan Why would you say that?

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It’s political not mathematical.

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8645

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@BruceHoult My American friends will get it.

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@BruceHoult Why would I use something as obvious as five times the taxicab number?

[Martin Gardner tweet @WWMGT]

The word stifle is an anagram of itself.

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Finally got every Project Euler award. Is there an award for this?

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Just enjoyed the first west coast screening of The Bit Player about Claude Shannon. Great show!

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@computermuseum The DEC ones from the 80s were cool. The speed matching was done by a section of tape in an air column. Fun to watch.

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@w6smi Heh. Probably two weeks ago.

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Why is William Crowther best known for Colossal Cave, when more importantly he is one of the primary inventors of the whole danged Internet?

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@ArashMehrabi Thanks! It’s a lot of fun. High quality challenging problems.

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My great good luck continues; now I'm alone in first place! Never thought this would happen.

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Remember dots and boxes? Try this tiny dots and triangle puzzle (same rules as dots and boxes): https://t.co/0MPtolqXN4

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@bmenrigh Oh my, that's super evil. These days I just can't even *imagine* the trouble this could cause! Gotta break out the packet-fu and see what we can do . . .