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by anusinha 14y ago
Awesome project. Are you releasing the source code?
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by anusinha 14y ago
I've been thinking about a "digital chemistry set" for a while. It's something that would certainly be fun to play with and that we have all the information to do--chemical reactions follow established rules and exceptions could be hardcode
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by anusinha 14y ago
Transplant technology has been around for a while, but only in the past decade have we started to get better at it. This is a function of improved training, improved facilities, experienced doctors, and better post-operation treatment. It h
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by anusinha 14y ago
Someone I know who lost a significant amount of weight told me that his best source of motivation was measuring his weight every day and plotting it.
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by anusinha 14y ago
> spending my time on engineering and research of my own.. In some fields, this is very easy. It's easy to buy a bunch of cluster time on Amazon EC2 or something and run lots of machine learning/other research applications. This is awes
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by anusinha 14y ago
At MIT, 6.00 is an introductory course. Most EECS majors do not take it. It's intended for people interested in EECS but who do not have much prior experience. It is in no way an easy course though---it's fast paced and covers a large amoun
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by anusinha 14y ago
A lot of the computer science classes already have a lot of material in a ready to go digital format so it's easier to get them online. The others will follow, but it's harder to convert all the material from a "brick and mortar" class to a
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by anusinha 14y ago
6.00x looks more theoretical and might teach you more computer science. CS50x looks less theoretical and more of a survey of different programming languages and patterns. It's a good "get up and running in several different ways" class.
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by anusinha 14y ago
Or many of the other promising and fascinating technologies currently being developed. Not all of them will work, but a few innovations will go a long way to fixing the energy problem.
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by anusinha 14y ago
This is a strong reason to pick devices that let you use a microSD (or similar, hopefully non-proprietary) card for extra storage. I will never run out of memory on my smartphone for that reason, since most "bulk data" that I encounter is m
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by anusinha 14y ago
This isn't very smart. Most delays and jams and other various issues drivers deal with are a result of human error. Suppose a driver on a highway slows down because {they see something interesting, their kid acts up, life happens}. This mak
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by anusinha 14y ago
UPS could also benefit greatly if they play their bargaining game right and form a good partnership. Breaking into shipping is difficult, even for a company as large as Amazon.
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by anusinha 14y ago
incremental progress and changes can come from this. but nothing truly revolutionary will come from this strategy.
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by anusinha 14y ago
"Cancer Research" and "Energy Crisis" seem to be pretty good sources of funding these days. A lot of labs have small projects/applications in these two fields since it often greatly helps them get funding.
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by anusinha 14y ago
I would not be surprised if they integrated igoogle services into google plus somehow. perhaps a split newsfeed+widgets service. it would be an effective way to drive a nontrivial amount of traffic to google plus.
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by anusinha 14y ago
It would have to pass through a fairly hydrophobic (the pore) layer. The water can barely get through since it's polar but uncharged; most metals in solution are charged ions and wouldn't be able to pass through the barrier.
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by anusinha 14y ago
This article is long and makes a lot of good points about things that you can gain from receiving doctorate. It sort of obscures one point that I think is the most important thing. You learn an incredible amount about what you're studying a
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by anusinha 14y ago
OCaml is also used extensively. I believe Jane Street Capital's entire codebase is in OCaml.
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by anusinha 14y ago
git/GitHub are not for code. They are for version control. Most common applications of git are in software (since things like MS Word et al. have their own implementation of revision history within the software package), but it's not limit
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by anusinha 14y ago
The area in which you can show the condiments/additions of the sandwich is (approximately) one dimensional. It is defined by the line between the patty and the bun, which is fairly thin. There is really only one degree of freedom in placing
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by anusinha 14y ago
it's not quite that. it's a simple tutorial on tabs, buffers, and windows, assumed at beginners.
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by anusinha 14y ago
Git is amazing but I take issue with GitHub. The point of Git is that it's a distributed and decentralized version control system and GitHub gets rid of the decentralized part of that. That is counter to what Git was designed for.
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by anusinha 14y ago
I use a private wiki that I use for storing lots of my personal information. I make a new page per idea and link to it from a bigger page. a good friend of mine keeps a giant google document of ideas and uses text to tag ideas.
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by anusinha 14y ago
The amount of energy you can store in this type of interaction is not very significant compared to other forms of solar storage. Batteries are one class of storage methods, but what's even better is to use solar energy to split water molecu
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by anusinha 14y ago
Gas and oil are very slow to be regenerated. wood takes significantly less time. I wasn't clear enough originally; I really meant neutral with a short cycle duration.
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by anusinha 14y ago
This is a really misleading article. What they're referring to is placing atoms (and molecules) into states of superposition where the state can be represented as 1/sqrt(2)|left> + 1/sqrt(2)|right>. This is an important first step t
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by anusinha 14y ago
The tricky thing about wood is that it's carbon neutral but still (often) a bad material to use. It's carbon neutral because when you burn it, all the CO2 released from the combustion reaction originally came from the air. But it's often a
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How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist(staff.science.uu.nl)
8 points by anusinha 14y ago|4 comments
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by anusinha 14y ago
Yes, Apple employees eat food. Some of them might actually like pizza. To provide good pizza, you need to hire a pizza chef. Is this really something "that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"?
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by anusinha 14y ago
Another big problem with studying high-dimensional spaces is that you run into many configurations that simply do not make sense in three dimensions/correspond to completely nonphysical shapes. This makes it difficult to study real (3-D) st

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