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Uriel Frisch's Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov is an accessible introduction to one of the most important and still unsolved problem in classical physics. That book has over 7000 citations on Google Scholar. https:/
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I haven't read the book, but looking at the contents I'm surprised that the author hasn't introduced analytical mechanics anywhere in the book. This might be a good introductory book if you haven't taken a mechanics cou
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> The most expensive meal a person ever ate was in late 2019, in China, and consisted of under-cooked bat meat. It cost trillions of dollars. The person who ate it, possibly a peasant, changed the course of the 21st century. The bat he
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It's also WebRTC based, which takes the load off the Jitsi server considerably. Popular alternatives like Zoom requires rerouting traffic through their servers AFAIK.
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> Because he’s on the ground in one of the hardest hit areas, and has no (that I can see) incentive to lie. But that doesn't make him an unbiased observer. If anything, it's only human nature to magnify once own suffering an
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
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Is Anti-Woke Becoming the New Woke?(areomagazine.com)
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> That tells you a lot of why people prefer MBP for work From the same article: > "For work I also have a MacBook Pro. It's not my favorite, the keyboard doesn't type well, it only has USB-C ports which are so close
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Non-paywall source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00537 The article title is somewhat misleading. The authors have only investigated "the properties of surfactant and polymer solutions commonly used to make giant bu
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It should. You should also be able to access WSJ by faking the referer.
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Svetlana Jitomirskaya's letter [1] supporting Prof. Thompson is a worthwhile read. From that letter: > "I think that the often present push to increase percentage of women beyond what is currently reasonably warranted by mer
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Another way to bypass the paywall is by redirecting through Facebook (works without a Facebook account): https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/th...
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For a vegetarian like me, MSG is a god send. Savory oatmeal spiced up with MSG, a dab of miso paste, and other spices has been my daily breakfast for a couple of years. It's surprising that not many people know about MSG or shy away fr
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What's wrong with the following (for Rust/C++)? sed -n 's/.*\/\///p' comcat.rs # for displaying comments sed 's/\/\/.*//' comcat.rs # fo
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> "Newsflash: Upper class men still rule the world." Do you have to really bring class and gender into this debate? Examples of not-so-upper-class people who went on do great things in life -- Srinivasa Ramanujan, Michael Fara
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> Even one. From Feynman's 1964 Messenger Lecture (later transcribed into The Character of Physical Law ): > "On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the intr
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> In physics JHEP is a good example of a high class arxiv overlay journal that is extremely successful without APCs. I don't think JHEP is an overlay journal anymore. AFAIK, JHEP is now published by SISSA/Springer with funds
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> Also, proofreading at publishers basically doesn't happen any more. I'm sorry, but which publishers are you talking about here? I've published with several publishers in my field (physics) including APS, AIP, AAS, EPS
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I'd actually like to see a breakdown of IEEE costs. AFAIK, IEEE offers print-editions of several of its journals. I don't know who reads hard copies of journals these days, but I'm sure printing on actual physical paper wou
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That's an unfair comparison. Discrete Analysis is an arXiv-overlay journal, IEEE hosts its own articles. Plus, Discrete Analysis doesn't typeset or proofread the articles it publishes. Again, I'm not justifying the e
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It's not just about professional management. I suspect IEEE and ACM have much more complicated infrastructure to handle submission, peer review, production, etc., which arXiv doesn't have. I'm not justifying the costs -- I
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> "ask whether or not they close the bathroom door (or the stall in a public restroom) when they're taking a shit" This is a pretty bad question and a hyperbole. Most people would want no one (including people who they
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Instead of piping to sed, I would simply use | tr -s ' ' '\t'
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> "while awk requires you to explicitly enumerate all desired columns" Or you can use loops, e.g., echo $(seq 100) | awk '{ for (i = 2; i <= 7; i++) { print $i; }; }'
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I've italicized them. I wish HN had some other way of stylizing quotes.
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Among technical books, books by Cornelius Lanczos are some of the best (less popular) books I've read. Some quotes from his "The Variational Principles of Mechanics": From the Preface: Many of the scientific treatises of to
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Ariel Rubinstein is one of the most honest game theorists I've come across. He's extremely critical of the claims that game theory can be used to accurately predict outcomes of the real world [1]. Economic Fables is a semi-biogra
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What about a spirograph, or folding paper and a book about origami?
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This is an excellent article. However, note that if you're using tr from GNU Coreutils, you have to use the 'A-Za-z' syntax for character ranges instead of '[A-Z][a-z]', since GNU tr doesn't use the SysV synta
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There's also the "pure bash bible", which is a collection of pure-Bash alternatives to several commands: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

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