Yesterday, I posted the results of my quick exploration of whether sorting the list {0,1,2,3,4} using a comparison function that randomly returns < or > (with equal probability). My exploration was prompted by a report on the non-uniformity of the distribution of the random orderings of the browsers in Microsoft’s EU browser ballot. I had [...]
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Posted 24 February 2010
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An Ars Technica “etc” post linked to a TechCrunch article (apparently based on a Slovakian article, but I didn’t look into the Slovakian article to be sure) that talks about the ordering of the browsers in Microsoft’s EU Browser Ballot not being uniformly distributed. At a glance at the Javascript that does the randomizing of [...]
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Posted 23 February 2010
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Discovering Fluid has given me a lot to play with today. Fluid itself is a program that you use to create other programs. In Fluid, you enter the web site you want and give it a name and give it an icon and it creates an application. That application is a Webkit (Safari-like) browser that [...]
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Posted 05 June 2009
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