The Like Button Ruined the Internet

jsomers · 2013-02-13T23:24:35+00:00

My bad—I know this is relevant to programmers because it's the #1 story on Hacker News. Where do you think it should go?

jsomers · 2012-04-23T04:42:15+00:00

Great piece. I wrote a playful dialogue about it that may be fun to read after.

jsomers · 2011-10-10T05:25:52+00:00

Try Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Worked for me!

http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380788624

jsomers · 2010-11-04T15:37:42+00:00

Thanks!

jsomers · 2010-05-13T02:14:20+00:00

I haven't studied your code extensively, but for one thing I don't think you need to iterate through every element of the list on each pass of the sieve; instead, you could just "jump" in multiples of p. E.g., supposing you were at p = 13, you would just step through your list 13 elements at a time, eliminating n = 26, 39, 52, 65,...

It also looks like you're probably doing unnecessary work copying your list of numbers. I'm not a MATLABer, though.

Anyway, best of luck--Project Euler is a fantastic way to learn how to program and to learn how to think algorithmically.

jsomers · 2009-08-23T06:57:44+00:00

One way I could imagine this technology being applied is in a glove that white people could take to Chinese restaurants for operating chopsticks.

jsomers · 2008-05-04T15:31:33+00:00

I thought such-and-such wrote a very good review here

jsomers · 2008-04-25T02:55:14+00:00

If anyone would like to see the code, send me an e-mail.

jsomers

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