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by Jun8 10y ago
Here's the interesting thing: to many people following a monotheistic religion, Euthhypro's second definition of piety (the post labels this as the First Attempt), which Socrates dismisses so easily, is the answer, i.e. piety (bei
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by Jun8 10y ago
With respect to your first comment: I think you're right, hieroglyphs being inspired by cuneiform is quote improbable. One reason for this is pointed out in [1]: "Unlike early Chinese and Egyptian writing, there is only sporadic e
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by Jun8 10y ago
According to the article and Berkeley's statement it was 100+ people, acting and attacking in a well-organized manner, not just a few people who got excited in the spur of the moment.
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by Jun8 10y ago
Yep, the Warden Diamond has been verified ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lords_of_the_Diamond )! Very imaginative and gripping series that I totally recommend.
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STEMTera: breadboard with built-in Arduino-compatible hardware(sparkfun.com)
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by Jun8 10y ago
May be of interest: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2998
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by Jun8 10y ago
You may find the top answer to this SE question helpful (asked 5 years ago, though): http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6561/are-modified... . Especially I think the following comment is spot on: "Gala
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by Jun8 10y ago
It's actually called C+.
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by Jun8 10y ago
"First of all, it helps to be ignorant. The time when I did my best work was when I was most ignorant. Knowing too much is a great handicap. Especially if you’ve been teaching for some years, things get so fixed in your mind and it’s i
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by Jun8 10y ago
"Free-market", like many -isms may mean many different things to different people. However, it seems clear that pressure to profit, pressure to grow fast, to raise ever larger rounds, etc. leads to huge missteps, both in tiny star
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by Jun8 10y ago
"What I fight against most in some sense, [when talking to the public,] is the kind of message, for example as put out by the film Good Will Hunting, that there is something you're born with and either you have it or you don'
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by Jun8 10y ago
I got a PhD in EE and wanted to say that this feeling is by no means unique to humanities (modulo, of course, some differences between disciplines, e.g. https://xkcd.com/451/ ): I remember the first time (many more such
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by Jun8 10y ago
Actually the second group you describe is the huge majority: Many parents have heard about STEM and programming and want their children to be exposed. However, being non-techies they don't know where to start. Also, a large number of C
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by Jun8 10y ago
Interesting toy to get introduced to Arduino programming: https://www.amazon.com/Thames-Kosmos-Workshop-Android-Compat... using a video game to teach programming. A bit pricey, though at $135. On the STEM size I would sugge
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by Jun8 10y ago
What, no STEM toys!? Have you visited the toy gadget section of your typical store, e.g. Target, BestBuy lately? It's full of crappy stuff marketed under the buzzword "STEM" for unknowing parents. Examples: Construction kits
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by Jun8 10y ago
Hmm, this reminded me of an empirical discovery I made: When walking with an open coffee cup at hand oscillating your hand vertically in random fashion greatly reduces the coffee resonance and the sloshing effect. This problem has been inve
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by Jun8 10y ago
"In another scene, Ramanujan goes to the post office to see if there are any letters from his wife. When a dejected Ramanujan leaves the post office empty-handed, he is approached by a group of young men in military uniform. Ramanujan
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by Jun8 10y ago
I think the achievement of building a cube that can withstand such quick moves should also be mentioned.
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by Jun8 10y ago
Looks great, thanks a lot! While causally browsing I noted the following in the 8-queens backtracking example: "The following recursive algorithm, essentially due to Gauss (who called it “methodical groping”), ..." Hilarious, espe
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by Jun8 10y ago
I think in all pieces for or against an -ism the author should first define what that term means to them . People usually don't agree on some crucial aspect of the term or will interpret and label a given example differently. So one s
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by Jun8 10y ago
Looks great! One question: "This is known as an Octave and is not considered a new note. An Octave is the same note with a higher pitch." Why is this so? I guess I'm totally tone deaf since I get no understanding of the samen
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Hacking Capitalism Humble Bundle(humblebundle.com)
1 points by Jun8 10y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 10y ago
This ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5986 ) is his 2012 paper where the method used here is justified. Also gives a short summary of SETI efforts in the introduction. He discussed the energy requirements to send a signal of
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by Jun8 10y ago
This answer on Math SE illustrates the concept of finite volume-infinite area quite nicely ( http://math.stackexchange.com/a/14632/14643 ). Note that the converse is proven only for surfaces of revolution and for di
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by Jun8 10y ago
Relevant part of the report: "As these examples show, the STEM syllabi explored in this study demonstrated a view of knowledge that was to be acquired by the student, which promotes a view of knowledge as unchanging. This is further re
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by Jun8 10y ago
"The number of possible permutations the Eureka can run through is a dizzying 26 million." It seems to me that rather than being a programmable computer, it is more similar Llull's Ars Combinatoria ( https://en.wi
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by Jun8 10y ago
Here's a quite specific answer from Philip Larkin: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP. (from https:&#x2
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by Jun8 10y ago
Your memory is good but I think that was the form given in a Dawson's Creek episode ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0555133/quotes ). The one that Goodreads and other sites attribute to Flaubert is: "Pleasur
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Tips for Making It Small in Hollywood(nytimes.com)
39 points by Jun8 10y ago|4 comments
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by Jun8 10y ago
I wonder if somebody has done similar posts (as well written and humorous) on "Code I won't work with".

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