Submissions from johndcook.com

		Why use hash puzzles for proof-of-work? (johndcook.com)
		4 points by Bostonian 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Cryptography, Hydrodynamics, and Celestial Mechanics (johndcook.com)
		3 points by tapanjk 6 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation? (johndcook.com)
		66 points by tapanjk 15 days ago \| past \| 30 comments
		Formal Methods Let You Explore the Corners (2016) (johndcook.com)
		3 points by gavinhoward 26 days ago \| past
		Looking for Keys Under the Lamppost (johndcook.com)
		10 points by zdw 31 days ago \| past \| 5 comments
		Frequency of Papal Names (johndcook.com)
		4 points by gscott 47 days ago \| past
		Why do LLMs have emergent properties? (johndcook.com)
		83 points by Bostonian 48 days ago \| past \| 110 comments
		Morse code and the limits of human perception (johndcook.com)
		3 points by ColinWright 62 days ago \| past
		When is round-trip floating point radix conversion exact? (johndcook.com)
		1 point by azhenley 64 days ago \| past
		Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols (johndcook.com)
		18 points by azhenley 72 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Superhyperbola (johndcook.com)
		64 points by jihadjihad 89 days ago \| past \| 20 comments
		Voyager's Slingshot Maneuvers (johndcook.com)
		3 points by ColinWright 3 months ago \| past
		Advantages of Reed-Solomon codes over Golay codes (johndcook.com)
		1 point by ColinWright 3 months ago \| past
		Testing a Random Number Generator (2010) [pdf] (johndcook.com)
		2 points by Tomte 3 months ago \| past
		The difference between tokens and words (johndcook.com)
		10 points by handfuloflight 3 months ago \| past
		Practical consequences of tokenization details (johndcook.com)
		3 points by weinzierl 3 months ago \| past
		What Would a Martian Calendar Would Look Like? (johndcook.com)
		3 points by gscott 3 months ago \| past \| 2 comments
		The Buenos Aires Constant (johndcook.com)
		121 points by zdw 4 months ago \| past \| 45 comments
		Multiple Angle Asymmetry (johndcook.com)
		2 points by azhenley 4 months ago \| past
		Matrix Representations of Number Systems (johndcook.com)
		4 points by azhenley 4 months ago \| past
		Rare and Strange ICD-10 Codes (2019) (johndcook.com)
		5 points by krykp 4 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		A magical land where rounding equals truncation (johndcook.com)
		2 points by keepamovin 5 months ago \| past
		RSA Security in Light of News (johndcook.com)
		1 point by luismedel 5 months ago \| past
		Can AI models reason like a human? (johndcook.com)
		3 points by ColinWright 5 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Golden Hospital Gowns (johndcook.com)
		2 points by CountHackulus 5 months ago \| past
		Quick Change Directory (johndcook.com)
		2 points by ColinWright 5 months ago \| past
		Converse of RSA (johndcook.com)
		3 points by hackernj 5 months ago \| past
		Unicode Stenography (johndcook.com)
		2 points by btilly 5 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		What is a second? (johndcook.com)
		75 points by zdw 5 months ago \| past \| 33 comments
		Unix Time and a Modest Proposal (johndcook.com)
		50 points by tapan_jk 6 months ago \| past \| 39 comments
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