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185karma·47submissions·January 31, 2024
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https://ewatchbill.com - a fair schedule generator that uses simulated annealing to minimize a ‘unfairness’ heuristic. I wrote it for my friends in the Navy who have to write duty bills ev…
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Reminds me of a Rickover quote: "If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the…
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This would be useful when chunking PDFs scanned with OCR. I've done that before and paragraph breaks were detected pretty inconsistently.
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Hey all, the page crashed but it's back up now, sorry for the downtime!
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Maybe you don't want to give yourself away!
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I didn't make a solo game mode, but you can play against yourself by opening the link in a new tab if that's helpful
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That's exactly the type of thing I was going for here!
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yeah I love that!
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Outside the "basics", I've seen Newton's method come up again and again in my work. I also work on some map software and geometry (especially trig) has been really useful. For reso…
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I think using slack asynchronously (and developing norms that support it) is useful. Also imo there's an unspoken tradeoff when you work for a full remote company across time zones. Most workers …
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https://archive.ph/win4r
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A semantic search engine for jrnl, the minimalist command-line note-taking application.
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