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by bigtimber 2y ago
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-mysterious-phenomenon-center-g...
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by bigtimber 2y ago
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-simulating-quantum-butterfly-e...
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by bigtimber 2y ago
Putting the fox in the chicken coop?
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by bigtimber 3y ago
Here's a couple 100% pure Stevia leaf extract products I found with a quick search on Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Sweetener-Servings-BSL-BSw... https://www.amazon.com/Stevia-Select-Powde
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Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline(torrentfreak.com)
256 points by bigtimber 4y ago|130 comments
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by bigtimber 4y ago
See also John Baez's thread at https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/159280129111350067... in which he states: "No. Yitang Zhang did NOT prove the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture. He did not even cl
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How to fix your scientific coding errors [pdf](media.nature.com)
1 points by bigtimber 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigtimber 5y ago
$paywalled??
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by bigtimber 5y ago
Natalie Wolchover's article referring to this is also nice... https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-time-crystal-built-usin...
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by bigtimber 5y ago
There were 4 of the then state-of-the-art, fastest in the world, CDC-7600 and CDC-6600 computers installed at Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLL, now LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Lab) when I worked there during the summer of 1972.
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Machine learning-based multidomain processing for texture-based image analysis(aip.scitation.org)
1 points by bigtimber 7y ago|0 comments
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by bigtimber 8y ago
I can't claim to have it on my bookshelf anymore, but DID have the original hardcopy on my bookshelf for many years back in the 70's and early 80's when I was programming some low-level math libraries and needed to refer to s
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by bigtimber 8y ago
Previous posts have nicely covered almost all of the textbooks and papers I would have mentioned myself, including K&R's _C Programming_, Brooks' _Mythical Man-Month_, Feynman's Lectures, etc. The only glaring omission wa
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by bigtimber 8y ago
IEEE member since 1995; joined because my company paid for it (also joined the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and even APS, American Physical Society, at that time for the same reason.) Continued my IEEE membership at my own expense after reti
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by bigtimber 8y ago
Great snapshot for the turn of millenium. Thanks for posting and triggering the trip down memory lane. Especially nostalgic for me personally as I was in the midst of coding early Windows and OS/2 kernel mode device drivers for scient
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by bigtimber 8y ago
Downloading from the link https://www.bourns.com/pdfs/OnlinePotentiometerHandbook.pdf produces a corrupted copy (many pages missing or out of order.) This is a better link: https://www.bourns.com/docs&#
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by bigtimber 8y ago
Perhaps you could include a comparison with BSTR implementation used extensively in Windows COM interfaces?
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by bigtimber 8y ago
especially paywalled links to sources such as WSJ
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by bigtimber 8y ago
Actual work location, if not 100% remote.
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by bigtimber 9y ago
Yes, the ??? on line 2 is KWH. You can see this clearly at: https://historical.ha.com/itm/explorers/space-exploration/ap...
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by bigtimber 9y ago
hate these paywall posts
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by bigtimber 9y ago
Fyi, the topic was discussed a few months back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163528 after the _Quantamagazine_ article was reprinted in _Wired_.
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by bigtimber 9y ago
Been using this for decades; my first boss, a PhD physicist, out of college got me started on using this. It's still being sold today: https://www.amazon.com/National-Computation-Notebook-Inches-...
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by bigtimber 9y ago
dang, another paywall
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by bigtimber 9y ago
Dupe also paywall.
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by bigtimber 12y ago
There is only a shortage of cheap / entry level tech workers. There are plenty of experienced and over-qualified tech workers, but most short-sighted employers don't value older employees.
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by bigtimber 12y ago
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