sigilyph

Re:Crypt of Civilization on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:07AM (#2959047)

Should be Crypt of Western or American-defined Civilization, honestly. I always look at these things expecting something more comprehensive, only to find the same narrow slice of human civilization as a whole.

Re:Good puzzle: 12 balls, 1 a diff weight, find in 3 uses of pan balance on Saturday June 25, 2011 @07:57PM (#2696981)

Another variation was presented in my psych class. There are eight coins of unknown weight each. Using a scale twice, identify which one is the false coin. The false coin is lighter than the regular coins, which are all of the same weight.

I found this one less intuitive; if you use the same algorithm as the 12 balls problem, it requires using the scale three times, which is one over the amount of times you're allowed to use the scale.

Ask HN: Python or Scheme?

Posted by sigilyph on Saturday May 07, 2011 @04:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.

The introductory computer science course at Berkeley (CS61A) is going to be taught in Python in Fall 2011 instead of Scheme. I've heard many moaning about no more Brian Harvey and SICP; on the other hand, MIT has long switched over to teaching in Python.I'm currently a freshman considering a CS major with limited experience in Python. I was just wondering what HN thought of this changeover-...

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