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by anateus 8y ago
I remember that scene, and I remember in my own childhood reading a similar scene in an Efremov novel (Andromeda or its sequels I can't recall which).
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by anateus 8y ago
I appreciate the visualizations, but the explanatory approaches follow the same ones I've seen in basically every textbook. The following particularly epitomizes that: "...it is worth defining what a subspace is in terms of its fo
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by anateus 8y ago
The way I've described scuttlebutt to folks is that it's "what if Facebook felt like Usenet in the 90s".
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by anateus 9y ago
It looks like a bacteria of some sort without a flaggelum, maybe gram positive. If I had to bet, I'd bet on some kind of lactobacillus :)
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by anateus 9y ago
This is often called the Werther Effect. It may be interesting to look at the inverse as well: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18082110 i.e. a policy prohibiting publicizing suicides seems to correlate with a decre
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by anateus 9y ago
I've read the paper. We don't know the exact mechanism by which this works, but I would bet that it's related to the chemical exposure (as the authors suggest in the Discussion section), i.e. exposure to the scent causes inge
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by anateus 9y ago
Feels like the proper place for this sort of project is HARC. Given they're both YC, I expect that option was explored.
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by anateus 9y ago
A lot of the signs can be seen as symbols that are easy to draw with the hands. For example, there's the 5-dots and 6-dots symbols. Those are: "every finger of one hand" and "three fingers from each hand". The brush
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by anateus 9y ago
If you like this, you may be interested in Megan Prelinger's book Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–1962 ( http://meganprelinger.com/book/another-science-fiction/ ). If you're near
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by anateus 9y ago
This is a great article touching on the several ways in which this new Plimpton 322 hype is overblown. There's usually a paper like that comes out every few years :) If you're interested in learning more about Babylonian math-hist
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by anateus 9y ago
If people would like to learn more about Japanese zoning (which isn't a lack of density zoning, but rather more of an "up to this" rather than "restrict to" zoning), there's this post on my favorite urban desig
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by anateus 9y ago
Another sign language developed in isolation that linguists love to study is Nicaraguan Sign Language: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language The core claim of the title, that somehow non-decomposable sig
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by anateus 9y ago
Some may be interested in Von Neumann's algorithm for getting fair results even from a biased coin: Toss it twice. If the results are the same, ignore. If they are different, use the first coin's result.
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by anateus 10y ago
I understand this is fun activism, but I haven't seen a single "How" section on these things.
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by anateus 10y ago
Kind of an out of left field question: Lamport appears in a little square of video occasionally overlaid on the slides and sometimes full screen. As far as I can tell, he never recycles an outfit and seems to switch head gear regularly. The
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by anateus 10y ago
At this point, they're historical rather than part of the current competitive landscape, but in their time they were vibrant communities. Studying them is useful much as studying IRC would be useful for someone creating something like
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by anateus 10y ago
Reminds me of party lines and voice bulletin boards, perhaps created without awareness of them?
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by anateus 10y ago
It's provincialism: the assumption that your audience is in the US or Western Europe. There is an implicit "Overwhelmingly American" in the beginning of that list. Understood in that context, it is not an unreasonable stateme
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by anateus 10y ago
The virtues of being nice are often extolled, but it's kindness that's truly valuable. You can do nothing and be "nice", but only actions can make you kind. When you strive to be kind, you'll also start noticing who
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by anateus 10y ago
I read the paper, and this is one case where the paper is almost as breathless as the journalists. It describes the findings, and then, as you say, starts the first of many paragraphs based on assumptions and pretty wild leaps. I think the
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by anateus 10y ago
For lightweight containers that improve on the built-in namedtuples consider using the excellent boltons library's namedutils : http://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/namedutils.html
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by anateus 10y ago
Yeah... I kept looking for the way this is ZK. Do they just mean that the files are encrypted on their servers and so they can't read them? I understand accidentally stepping on a term from an adjacent field, but using it this way for
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by anateus 10y ago
His answer to "Is there any lesson you’ve had to learn multiple times?" echoes one of the most important lessons I've ever learned.
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by anateus 10y ago
Tech is here because the money for tech is here. It started with the US Gov't putting money into military bases and later Lockheed and other mil contractors. During and after WWII tax regulations changed in such a way that VC become mo
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by anateus 10y ago
The title implies this is a list of books that YC somehow institutionally recommends (like their "how to pitch" articles). When I first looked at it that way it seemed strangely uneven in terms of quality. When I realized this was
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by anateus 10y ago
It only increases.
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by anateus 10y ago
Here's a patent that has Daniel S. Goldin as one of the assignees (His middle name is Saul according to wikipedia): https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2847689A1/en
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by anateus 10y ago
PyPy
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by anateus 10y ago
It's also somewhat common in https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Martian_language
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by anateus 10y ago
Note that Hermes Trismegistus is a local syncretism rather than a full equivalent as the article implies.

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