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by arcanus 11y ago
His point about f1 being overly restricted by rules is legitimate, but I am neither a fan of his design, nor do I believe it is representative of a race car truly optimized for speed. Full disclosure: I have a Ph.d. in Computational Fluid D
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by arcanus 11y ago
I'm saddened to see no mention here of Vera Rubin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin I've heard several male scientists in cosmology suggest that Rubin either discovered or was instrumental in the disc
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by arcanus 11y ago
> So do the adult thing: quit your job, then continue the relationship. True love should be stronger than the benefits of a tenured position. Don't screw it up for all the other poor students whom the gods did not make to be your so
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by arcanus 11y ago
Surprised Austin did not make the list.
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by arcanus 11y ago
Recommend, perhaps. I never put a paper up on github until after it has been published, and I've seen considerable push-back from fellow scientists at the suggestion we consider it. Despite the pervasive influence of github, it is quit
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by arcanus 11y ago
All ancient greek or latin words/concepts for me. I'm typing this from my workstation, 'magus'. Home machine is 'logos'. Laptop is 'thymos'.
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by arcanus 11y ago
"Indeed it has been said that Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -Winston Churchill ----------- While I broadly agree that the dissemination of ac
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by arcanus 11y ago
I worked at NIST about 10 years ago, for a summer internship in the Physics division. Absolutely top notch scientists, some good facilities, a decent budget and very well scoped research objectives. Management was also largely hands-off. Gr
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College Majors Figure Big in Earnings(wsj.com)
1 points by arcanus 11y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 12y ago
I'm curious if anyone has seen how equations come out looking with this? I always cringe when I see non-TeX equations in presentations, at this point.
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by arcanus 12y ago
LaTeX is ubiquitous in my research field. I'm skeptical anything that cannot parsed .tex will have a chance of competing, at least in the short term.
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by arcanus 12y ago
This is a joke: the robots.txt is a file on websites used to give instructions about their site to web crawlers. Disallow: tells the robot that it should not visit those particular pages on a site. Or in this case, terminate those individua
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A Great Story About Losing a Deal and Working With an Elite Software Engineer(markcunningham91.blogspot.com)
2 points by arcanus 13y ago|0 comments