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by brilee 13y ago
He didn't do this for the money... I've been offered minor cash gifts for significant volunteer work that I've done previously, and it's usually sort of offensive - nowhere near large enough to compensate for my time, an
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by brilee 13y ago
That curve fitting seems a bit off in the middle and at the tail. What does the log plot show? Log-log plot? That will nail down a power law or exponential law if there is one.
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by brilee 13y ago
This is satire, right?
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by brilee 14y ago
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but your use of virtual currency strikes me as an attempt to later coin your own currency to "buy" other peoples' goods for free. It doesn't bode well for trust, in any case...
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by brilee 14y ago
Air is a fluid, too. It's also got a lower viscosity than say, water, so it will create less resistance. Saying it stores a lot more energy when it moves is like saying that we should make our train cars heavier so that we can recover more
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by brilee 14y ago
... if prices don't go up, what's the incentive for gasoline delivery companies to make the extra effort to bring resources to a disaster-torn city?
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by brilee 14y ago
I went online to escape the mindless reporting and tabloid news that had taken over television. But it looks like they chased me into the internet.
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by brilee 14y ago
It seems to have much simpler behavior - gliders, bridges, and bricks. Don't think we're going to discover any prime number generators with this version of Life.
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by brilee 14y ago
Not quite; the values at every point are boolean, not floats. (From the link) The algorithm is explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTIXRhjXII
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by brilee 14y ago
A minor nitpick... 'cardinality' in mathematics refers to a set of infinities. The set of all integers has a certain cardinality, which is equal to the cardinality of all rational numbers, but which is smaller than the cardinality of all ir
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by brilee 14y ago
Lipitor was most likely discovered by screening a library of billions of compounds for ones with some bioactivity. Then, by putting these compounds through more refined screenings, they have a bunch of candidate compounds. Then, these candi
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by brilee 14y ago
Oops, I misinterpreted how the graph was generated... but the complaint still holds. The averaging of a million trials will cut the amplitude of the fluctuations by a factor of 1000, but the sqrt(N) effect should still be visible. (Note tha
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by brilee 14y ago
Uh... Something's fishy with the first graph of the 'drunken man's walk'. It's well known that the random walk veers away from the zero-line at a rate sqrt(N), where N is number of flips. Normalized by the number of flips, the random walk