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Four short links: 19 June 2009
Cute Math, Fast Slo-Mo, Open Source HVAC, xkcd Hack
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 1
- Inside-Out Multiplication Table -- very cool way to view the patterns of factors. Math is beauty with subscripts.
- High-Speed Camera -- capture 100 frames at up to 1M frames/second. The sample videos, of a bullet liquefying on impact and a shotgun string boiling past, are stunning. The Makezine high-speed photography kit is the cheap amateur version.
- Open Source Energy Management for Commercial Buildings -- open source project to enable interoperable applications for integrated Building Automation Systems (BAS). From NovusEdge. I wonder how they're planning to spread their open source and use it to disrupt. (via earth2tech and timoreilly on Twitter)
- xkcd Knapsack Solution -- for those of you who like literal Python geeking with your comics. Have a great weekend!
tags: energy, math, open source, programming, python, video, xkcd
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Ross Stapleton-Gray [2009-06-19 10:05 AM]
Thr XKCD scenario is a simple problem for brute-force exhaustion, at least for these modest amounts. My inclination would probably have been to use Lisp... start with a node with a balance of $15.05 and no children; now for each appetizer possibility, create a child node with value of appetizer type and balance of its parent less the price of that appetizer, ... Read Moreand then recurse. If balance hits zero at a node, the path from that node back to the root is a successful order, and if it's negative, it's a failure and recursion stops.