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Random(Blog)
Personal blog · nbickford.wordpress.commathprogramming
Random(Blog) is a personal blog at nbickford.wordpress.com about math and programming. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Minsky circle algorithm”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for math and algorithm posts, such as a circle-drawing algorithm, CORDIC, and a write-up of a pi continued-fraction record. One commenter tells readers to read it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Minsky circle algorithm3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-16
- Pi: The context of the latest (continued fraction) record2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-26
What Hacker News says?
Atavising was new to me. From https://nbickford.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/reversing-the-gam... : > First of all, while I said “Predecessorifier” in the talk, “Ataviser” seems to be the accepted word, coming from “Atavism”, which the online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity”.
Comment linking /2012/04/15/reversing-the-game-of-life-for-fun-and-profit/
on “Conway's Gradient of Life”Submitted The Minsky circle algorithm as a story · 200 points
HN discussionReminds me of glitching the integer circle algorithm: https://nbickford.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-minsky-circle...
Comment linking /2011/04/03/the-minsky-circle-algorithm/
on “The XOR Texture (2004)”Submitted Cellular Automata as a story · 33 points
HN discussionCORDIC is itself a very interesting algorithm due to its conceptual simplicity: a vector rotation using successive approximations. When stripped down to its essentials, it forms the basis of a surprisingly simple circle-drawing algorithm: https://nbickford.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-minsky-circle... (Previously also discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15266331 )
Comment linking /2011/04/03/the-minsky-circle-algorithm/
on “Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point”Submitted Pi: The context of the latest (continued fraction) record as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSeriously. Now read this: http://nbickford.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/what-ive-been-work...
Comment linking /2011/09/20/what-ive-been-working-on-lately/
on “From Pi to Puzzles: continued fraction of pi new record by a 13 years old”Submitted Hyperbolic Self-Similarity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe blog post referenced by this article ( http://nbickford.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/pi/ ) is amazing. It's not just the math and not just the C# code; he throws in all sorts of offhand references to a paper here, a record-holder there, a plot point of Carl Sagan's Contact ... the kinds of things that most people accumulate over many years. While this isn't high-level mathematics, if I'd read the post without seeing…
Comment linking /2010/10/22/pi/
on “From Pi to Puzzles: continued fraction of pi new record by a 13 years old”Submitted Hilbert(Hilbert) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Fake Landscapes as a story · 2 points
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