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by aroberge 14y ago
The list could go on ... if you are a mathematician. If you are a physicist (not working on string theory), you rarely use topological concepts - if at all. While working towards my Ph.D. on some topic in finite temperature effects in gau
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by aroberge 14y ago
Sensational title that misrepresent the results of a competition with limited (albeit high quality) participants. There is limited information of general value in this link.
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by aroberge 14y ago
This definitely needs to be emphasized.
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by aroberge 14y ago
I'm curious as to how they found my exact address when I turned on the locator feature. Also, I wonder why Canada is not listed as a country for terms of use. Perhaps because the 3d features are not available here?...
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by aroberge 14y ago
This would have made it so much easier to create a version of Crunchy that could run transparently using either Python 2.x and 3.x. However, as much as I applaude this change, there are others new features in 3.3 that are just as important
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by aroberge 14y ago
tl;dr: I would argue, based on experience, that today's programming languages make it much easier to get the job done than used to be the case back then. As a result, programmers today don't have to be as good (i.e. lower barrier of entry
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by aroberge 14y ago
You don't need to hear to produce your own videos AND add subtitles to them. Some people create, others criticize.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Do you have any idea how long it takes to add subtitles to a video? My point was, and still is, that it is always easier to criticize work of others (and complain when something is "missing") than doing the work yourself. If someone had c
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by aroberge 14y ago
It is always much easier to criticize the work of others than to do similar work. Can't you be grateful that the author shared something of value, even if it is not perfect, rather than just deciding not to share because 1) there are no su
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by aroberge 14y ago
The study is in progress: it would be highly inappropriate for the researchers to release any kind of result at this point.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Wrong thinking: free eTextbooks are the way forward. It will take a while, but the younger generation of Ph.D. is more savyy in using technology as a means for communication and it is (I hope) only a matter of times until we have Creativ
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by aroberge 14y ago
The title got me excited ... but it is misleading. The math book of the future will be available under a Creative Commons licence and will be set up so as to be easily translatable into other languages. This is just setting up a future mo
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by aroberge 14y ago
Professionalism cuts both ways. Any company employee that reacts negatively in ways similar to what is described here (when the interviewee announced he was leaving) would display what I consider to be extremely unprofessional behaviour.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Two things, greatly oversimplified: 1) all forms of energy (including mass) are sources for gravity. 2) Interaction with the Higgs gives rise to what we observe as mass of particles; without this interaction, we'd have massless particle, wi
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by aroberge 14y ago
Unfortunately, very little is going to change as this does not affect a large proportion of users. The majority of users will not realize what they lose because of drm and region segregation.
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by aroberge 14y ago
I'm going back to teaching this year after being an administrator for 13 years and stories like this just make me mad. I'm committed to join others that make their material available for free (under a creative commons license) and encourag
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by aroberge 14y ago
Communicating effectively is a skill that can be acquired if you are smart enough. If you feel you have to constantly dumd down stuff, then it is likely a sign that you are not as smart as you think. Think back to your best teachers: they
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by aroberge 14y ago
Don't confuse the temperature at the surface of the Sun (5000 C or so, which is quite cool) with the temperature in the interior of the Sun (15 000 000 C or so ... quite a bit hotter). Still, it pales in comparison with the temperatures ac
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by aroberge 14y ago
Nor should you (be able to equate the two). Very roughly speaking, temperature is akin to a measure of the average energy density. Joule is a measure of energy and watt is a measure of energy per unit time. So, they give you a measure of
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by aroberge 14y ago
What did you expect: Farenheit?... Any scientific paper will refer to temperature either in Kelvin or Celsius ... and the difference between the two at that scale is quite small .
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by aroberge 14y ago
Anyone who discounts a thoughtful response based on some other criteria than that found in that response is not someone qualified to comment about ethics.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Not a comment on the article as such, but a pet peeve about the way it is displayed. There is a "floating" header on top which covers the text. If one hits the space bar to scroll a full screen worth, some unread text is covered up by that
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by aroberge 14y ago
There's a limit for how big/small an object you can see with a telescope due to diffraction. For instance, the Hubble telescope can not distinguish features on the moon that are less than approximately 100 meters. Obviously it gets much w
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by aroberge 14y ago
When a VP Academic makes a statement, this statement is supposed to reflect the view of the entire institution. When a VP Academic makes such public statements demonstrating gross misunderstanding of science (which I would describe as inco
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by aroberge 15y ago
Standard design patterns are important ... if you program in Java and similar languages. But many of these are completely unnecessary when using a dynamic language like Python - and many others.
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by aroberge 15y ago
This is even better read using Crunchy ( http://code.google.com/p/crunchy ) running under Python 3. Crunchy styles the code, making it more pleasant to read, while inserting a Python interpreter whenever it detects some code, allowing to r
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by aroberge 15y ago
Of course you use classes all the time in Java: it forces you to do so by design. I have significantly more experience with Python than with Java and I find that writing unit tests on functions is as easy if not easier than writing tests f
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by aroberge 15y ago
That's not what the video was about at all. The speaker never implied to use an approach that would lead to reinvent the wheel over and over ... quite the contrary in fact.
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by aroberge 15y ago
Yes, he should have been using raw_input().
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by aroberge 15y ago
Why do you think it is black in the first place? Think physics and X-rays, not computer screen...

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