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And all he has to do is completely mess up the statistics and he could make a killing!

You're doing it wrong.

my head asplode.

Great research.

But this seems to me like overkill. A mosquito net works and is proven and costs very very little.

And hey, there actually already are charitable initiatives for this. http://www.nothingbutnets.net/

1M from the Gates Foundation could probably buy enough mosquito nets to cover the whole of Africa.

Not to split hairs, but that's a genuine off-by-0.01 error right there.

Yeah, it isn't completely random random, because of all the filtering done to ensure the randomly-generated words are part of the original text. Sure the words are generated randomly, but reducing them and checking for membership, and then checking to see if they're in the source kinda ruins the whole point.

I started with Pascal, so the most influential book for me is Walter Savitch's "Turbo Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming."

It's the best book on learning to program that i've ever read and it's still the yardstick by which i compare other entry-level programming books. It's very clear, detailed, informative, and sensible. The fun quotes in every section are an added bonus.

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