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by KhalilK 12y ago
then ? It is not by the process of elimination that we'd get the precise era in which Al-Kāshi lived. If either of us is to tolerate a certain degree of imprecision (for me that medieval concerns not only Europe and for you that the
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by KhalilK 12y ago
My whole point is that medieval gives the false impression that he was a European astronomer.
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Meta note: Al-Kāshī was not a " medieval astronomer", the Middle Ages are related to European history and Al-Kāshī lived in Iran during the Islamic Golden Age.
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The Science Prediction Market Project(citationfuture.com)
1 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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Solving the future with abstract algebra(phys.org)
1 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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Pentagon Studies Reveal Major Nuclear Problems(nytimes.com)
3 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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by KhalilK 12y ago
space is free for all above 100km. 100km is the altitude where lies the Karman Line[0]; the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space. So technically, space IS what's above 100km ;) 0. http://en.wikiped
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Animatron[0] jumps to mind immediately, I hope it does the job. 0. http://animatron.com/
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by KhalilK 12y ago
The most astonishing part for me, is that those videos are made using Adobe After Effects, the amount of effort and patience it takes to work with a clusterfuck of shape layers and compositions is simply amazing! Kudos!
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Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen do?
2 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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by KhalilK 12y ago
It is indeed simple to setup in a pleasant way, but there are plenty of trolls out there. Kudos nonetheless!
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Well, all it takes is to add &edit=true to anyone's follow page...
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by KhalilK 12y ago
I see high potential! Kudos to you guys!
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On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs(libcom.org)
506 points by KhalilK 12y ago|381 comments
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by KhalilK 12y ago
But..But...What about vinyl?
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by KhalilK 12y ago
That's when personal effort kicks in, 6 hours of courses followed by, say 18 hours of working on exercises, proofs and problems, will get you going.
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Here's another great one: a certain well known mathematican, we'll call him Professor P.T. (these are not his initials...), upon his arrival at Harvard University, was scheduled to teach Math 1a (the first semester of freshm
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Nurse defies Ebola quarantine(reuters.com)
1 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Will the logs suffice to determine the cause of the explosion or will they have to reassemble the wreckage and look for anomalies?
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by KhalilK 12y ago
I may be going on rampage here but " It does contain a fair bit of math " really grinds my gears! Of course it does, it is about square roots and inversions. In most of the cases, in order to optimize an algorithm or solve a probl
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When iPhones Ring, the Economy Listens(nytimes.com)
1 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple's Top Secret Design Process(thenextweb.com)
1 points by KhalilK 12y ago|0 comments
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by KhalilK 12y ago
I see. product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation driver=i915
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Chrome V38.0.2125.104 on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Though it looks awesome, It's spamming my console with WebGL errors: [.WebGLRenderingContext]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION : glDrawArrays: framebuffer incomplete (clear) [.WebGLRenderingContext]GL ERROR :GL_INVAL
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Meta note: That is one of the smoothest and pleasant scrolling experiences I've had on the web! Kudos to the web devs!
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Though those exact tools are not really available, there are a couple of "alternatives" when it comes to live coding; a HTML5 canvas playground[0] and another similar one[1]. If you are interested more in live coding you might wan
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by KhalilK 12y ago
This reminded me of Bret Victor's great talk Inventing on Principle[0]. 0. https://vimeo.com/36579366
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by KhalilK 12y ago
Well there was Streets of Sim City[0] where you could take any of your Sim City 2000 cities, and turn it into a vehicular racing and combat playground. Way fun at the time! 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimC
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SimCity That I Used to Know(medium.com)
181 points by KhalilK 12y ago|53 comments

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