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by bluenose69 1y ago
As mentioned in the article, we dropped the 1-cent coin in Canada over a decade ago. Nobody cares. We also dropped the $1 and $2 bills, years back. I'm guessing there will be a $5 coin soon ... but none of this matters much anymore,
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by bluenose69 1y ago
Based on the first link, it seems as though zero and upper-case "O" are very similar. (My eyes cannot discern a difference, but I admit that my eyes are not top-notch.)
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by bluenose69 1y ago
I haven't given Skype a thought in years. I wish I could say the same for Teams, that thing that administrators seem to love and users seem to hate.
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by bluenose69 1y ago
LaTeX is still very much in favour in my field of geophysical research. I believe that the same is true across most fields that rely on mathematical notation to explain things in written form. I've never found it difficult to write i
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by bluenose69 2y ago
Thanks for the link to the randomly-chosen paper. It really brightened my day to move my eyes over the craziness of this text. Who needs "The Onion" when Springer is providing this sort of comedy?
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by bluenose69 2y ago
In my world, that row has an 'esc' key (which I type every few seconds, as a longtime vi/etc user) and a fingerprint key. The keys in between are a mystery zone. If apple move the 'control' key to the 'caps lo
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by bluenose69 2y ago
This story took place when I was in high school. At university, my electronics professor had one of these. He adored that little thing, and all the students were jealous, but they were really expensive so we all used slide rules. At a po
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by bluenose69 2y ago
It's a long time since I thought about doing Leroy lettering, so I was delighted to see the tiny clip of someone doing that. My thoughts on Leroy were a bit divided, I have to say. When I was young we were first taught how to letter by
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by bluenose69 2y ago
An RIS entry: TY - JOUR TI - Mathematics in the 20th century AU - Atiyah, Michael T2 - Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society AB - A survey is given of several key themes that have characterised mathematics i
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by bluenose69 2y ago
This is a good resource, and pretty much what I tell students in my classes. I take great care to explain how to write symbols, and I also give multiple pronunciations of the Greek letters. Students with math and physics backgrounds are fi
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by bluenose69 2y ago
As has been noted by others, the emoting is a distraction. I could only watch this for a few seconds. Another thing: why are they reporting speed in miles per hour, and altitude in feet? Surely anybody interested in space is familiar with
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by bluenose69 2y ago
Balance is the key, but if I only had a debugger, and not the printf option, I'd be working more slowly and swearing a bit more. I work in a natural science, and use computing for numerical simulations and data analyses. For coding pro
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by bluenose69 2y ago
Why is it that pretty much everything Knuth writes is wildly detailed but yet, somehow, deeply engaging? Maybe I'm such a fan because of many great experiences with tex (and latex). The output is just so beautiful. And the notation (
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by bluenose69 2y ago
This is a very good point. And it works across the board. The Vietnam War led to many bright and ambitious young people leaving the US. I know. Many of them were my teachers.
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by bluenose69 2y ago
This is a well-informed article, with some very compelling graphics. I don't care a whit what is said about politics or policy, because I doubt that many Nature readers will need help in making decisions about such things. For me, the
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3-mile island plant and AI power(theguardian.com)
4 points by bluenose69 2y ago|1 comments
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by bluenose69 2y ago
I'm sure this will be useful for some folks, but I'll stick with 'git' to track changes and 'make' to organize my work. It seems as though this project is a sort of system for creating Makefiles, and that would
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by bluenose69 2y ago
I've learned that many students lose interest about 2 slides into a presentation. The solution is simple. Don't use presentations. Spend your time with the students by talking with them. Use the board for sketches, mathematical
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by bluenose69 2y ago
There's a ton of literature on the ideas and the caveats. Perhaps https://web.whoi.edu/ocb-fert/scientific-literature/ will be a useful, although somewhat dated and limited, introduction to the fertilization
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by bluenose69 2y ago
A view from Canada: thanks, Mr Biden. You honour your record and your nation.
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by bluenose69 2y ago
My mind went to the novel "Time Pressure" by Spider Robinson (ISBN-10 ‎ 0441809332). It's worth reading, if you like sci-fi.
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by bluenose69 2y ago
I would expect a bit more backwards compatibility for R packages. When I open a package.Rproj file with RStudio, it has GUI elements to build the package, to test it, etc. When I open it with positron, it is treated like a text file, at le
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by bluenose69 2y ago
Um, are my eyes deceiving me, or did I read e.g. * "Multicellular life needs oxygen to live." * "They break down oxygen to produce a molecule called adenosine triphosphate..."
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by bluenose69 2y ago
For anyone who remembers the Sinclair Scientific calculator, the site http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul... has a good explanation of its way of calculating. It is unlike other machines, over
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by bluenose69 2y ago
To this list, I'd add one more thing: pay attention to talks that you see, writing notes not just on the material, but on things you liked and disliked about the presentation style, the slide format, etc. Avoid the things you dislike,
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by bluenose69 2y ago
Reasonable worries about fraudulent work have led to some good ideas -- perhaps the ones discussed in the Springer Nature article -- but also to some that I think are silly. I reviewed something recently for a journal that asked me to do th
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by bluenose69 2y ago
This is a great article. For me, a lot relates to scale. I use notebooks occasionally for the university classes I teach. I like how I can write equations and text to explain ideas, and present interactive graphs to illustrate the ideas.
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by bluenose69 2y ago
MDPI journals are considered predatory by some academics.
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by bluenose69 2y ago
Here's how I know I'm old: that first photograph, of the reflex cameras on a shelf, sent a chill up my spine. All that beautiful hardware. Think of holding one in your hand. Think of the images they have taken, or may one day t
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by bluenose69 2y ago
The "This message can't be saved" text is not that bad, actually. The important thing is that the second part tells the user what to do. The first part could be rewritten "An error occurred" and that would be fine,

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