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10th Year of the International Nethack Tournament

Nov 2nd, 2008 · The 10th annual Nethack Tournament just started over at nethack.devnull.net, so put on your Hawaiian shirt, grab an expensive camera, and head for the dungeon. The tourney runs through the month of November each year, with volunteer game servers dotted …
see also: servers · world · expense · cameras · nethack · volunteer · Dungeon

How Close Were US Presidential Elections?

Sep 26th, 2008 · I'm a graduate student in Statistics at Michigan State University and spent some time analyzing past US presidential elections to determine how close they truly were. The mathematical procedures of Linear Programming and 0-1 Integer Programming were used …
see also: solution · students · 2004 · presidential · Statistics · 2000 · mathematics

How Close Were US Presidential Elections?

Sep 26th, 2008 · I'm a graduate student in Statistics at Michigan State University and spent some time analyzing past US presidential elections to determine how close they truly were. The mathematical procedures of Linear Programming and 0-1 Integer Programming were used …
see also: solution · students · 2004 · presidential · Statistics · 2000 · mathematics

Torvalds On Desktop Linux's Slow Uptake

Feb 8th, 2008 · javipas notes a Wired piece summarizing a two-part interview with Linus Torvalds that's up at linux-foundation.org (part 1, part 2). In the second part the creator of the Linux kernel gives his view on the limited success of Linux on the desktop. "I have …
see also: Linux · Windows · desktop · interview · Creator · Wired · Linus Torvalds