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by blix 14y ago
I feel like there's a pretty big jump between saying that a fish reflects light with a somewhat unexpected polarization and saying that the fish is invisible, or breaks the laws of physics. The fish is, in fact, quite visible and obeys the
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by blix 14y ago
In defense of MatSE, you only took the course for non-majors (I assume). I assure you that it gets a lot more legit after that, much in the same way MechE gets more interesting once you move past statics. To answer your question though, the
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by blix 14y ago
At the risk of being a downer, this isn't that interesting from a computer science perspective. What happened here is that standard computational methods were applied to test a novel theory of stability for nanocrystalline metals[1]. While
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by blix 14y ago
Materials Scientist here. There are no small-scale diamonds present in the material. On the small scale, the material is a carbon glass (an unordered, or amorphous solid), distinct from diamond, which is an ordered crystal. Typically, high
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by blix 15y ago
I'm confused by your comment. strcpy assumes that the string to be copied ends with a NUL. The case described in the link violated that assumption and caused a segfault.
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by blix 15y ago
I don't see what the big deal is here. He throws inputs at a function not meant to handle them and gets a segfault. Isn't this more-or-less expected from all C functions? On careful examination of his example code, you can see that there's
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by blix 15y ago
This article misses the mark completely, both by extrapolating medicine to science as a whole, and by attacking the idea of causation rather than the sketchy practices of medicine. All of the examples are pulled from medicine, notorious for
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by blix 15y ago
Replace one of your examples of 'boring work' with "writing grant proposals" or "performing the same experiment over and over again" and you have the perspective of the non-scientists. I think you're confusing "deadly boring to most smart p