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by akuchling 9y ago
This is a genius form of grass-roots arbitrage: transferring money from affluent and politically safe areas to less wealthy and more contested ones.
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by akuchling 9y ago
Flickr also has a search by CC license, which is good to have.
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by akuchling 9y ago
Some libraries are beginning to abandon late fees: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/02/librar...
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by akuchling 10y ago
I always suggest Spencer Weart's extensively hyperlinked "The Discovery of Global Warming", available online from the American Institute of Physics: http://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm
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by akuchling 10y ago
Nothing surprising there. The version bump for 3.7 would have been committed immediately after branching off the 3.6 release branch.
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by akuchling 10y ago
The problem for forks is to get enough users to keep up with ongoing events. For example, according to Infogalactic, Leonard Cohen is still alive: https://infogalactic.com/info/Leonard_Cohen The Chicago Cubs haven&#x2
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by akuchling 10y ago
Surely to Apache OpenOffice, which hasn't yet built a strong development community under the ASF's umbrella.
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by akuchling 10y ago
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming is a history of climate models and data, published by MIT Press. https://www.amazon.com/Vast-Machine-Computer-Politics-Infras...
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by akuchling 10y ago
My understanding is that gravitational waves are only radiated when there's a dipole moment: two (or more, I guess) objects in rotation around each other. A black hole just sitting on its own doesn't radiate any gravitational wav
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Analyzing E Pluribus Hugo(file770.com)
1 points by akuchling 10y ago|0 comments
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by akuchling 10y ago
There are two kinds of libraries: archives, which try to keep everything relevant for ever, and circulating libraries, which try to be useful to the public. Municipal libraries are circulating libraries, so if they spend $80 on TAOCP vol. 1
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by akuchling 11y ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/here-s-first-person-s... " On 14 September 2015, while Drago was on the phone with a LIGO colleague in Italy, his pipeline sent him an email alert—of which he recei
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by akuchling 11y ago
Possibly C. Titus Brown? Here's his PyCon 2014 talk, "Data intensive biology in the cloud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRbfKK57X8
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by akuchling 11y ago
Victor Davis Hanson made a similar point in the book "Who Killed Classical Studies": every significant text has been analyzed in depth, and the remaining texts still being found are minor. (Even if a new play by Aeschylus or book
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by akuchling 11y ago
I suggest Philip Hazel's technical memoir ( http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ph10/CIHK.pdf ), which goes through his career.
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by akuchling 11y ago
Annotations are specialized, explaining references that are now archaic, and concentrating on longer things like novels or entire bodies of work. Not recent and not short: that's two strikes against anything going viral. Also, Genius
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by akuchling 11y ago
FYI: if you can get there, you might be able to help by assembling the bankers' boxes, which doesn't require too much lifting or bending. (I was there yesterday for a few hours: some people assemble the boxes, others take the box
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by akuchling 11y ago
The features added in PEPs should be incorporated into the documentation -- if they're not, please file a bug -- so people mostly don't refer to PEPs except for historical purposes. It's not code, but also see Raymond Hetting
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by akuchling 12y ago
That is in fact what happened. PyCon posted a statement afterwards ( http://pycon.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropr... ) that said "Both parties were met with, in private. The comments that were
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by akuchling 12y ago
I haven't tried it, but here's a SciPy 2013 talk by its author Ana Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_qtDJ6ciA
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by akuchling 12y ago
Try a secondhand book site: I like abebooks.com, and there's also alibris.com. I'm slowly assembling a set of the Oxford Charles Dickens; every few months I pick a title I haven't got and search for a copy that's called
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by akuchling 12y ago
http://awfullibrarybooks.net/ is a blog edited by two librarians, showing books weeded by them or their readers. It's hard to argue against their choices: thirty-year-old romance novels? An autobiography by a 1980s f
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by akuchling 12y ago
Yes, a few good points were buried in that post, like "examples are good" and "re.M isn't, strictly speaking, a variable". In the past I've made corrections based on Lee's suggestions, but when good point
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by akuchling 12y ago
Lee is a noted Internet crank, very sure he's completely brilliant and everyone else is a moron. I remember his flaming about the quality of the Python documentation, e.g. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-
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by akuchling 12y ago
To illustrate that: here's a video from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that looks at musical quotation, using the Star Trek:TOS theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTaSjS1pwhQ
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Andrew Binstock: Farewell, Devil's Advocate: Obituary for Stan Kelly-Bootle(drdobbs.com)
1 points by akuchling 12y ago|0 comments
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by akuchling 13y ago
The price point is just too high. I'd give $5 or $10 without a thought, even if there were no benefits at all, but $25 is too much for an impulsive donation to a project.
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by akuchling 13y ago
Sean Carroll's explanation of how this detection of gravitational waves could set constraints on inflationary theories is helpful: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/16/gravitat...
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by akuchling 13y ago
She quotes the host of the show as saying "Julia, Julia, Julia. You aren't seriously suggesting that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government did not have complete, total, absolute control over the outcome of Edward Snowden enter
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by akuchling 13y ago
So pronounce it like "Coke".

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