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by carlob 8y ago
What if this was due to the fact that a big portion of their grades are based on the assignments they complete at home (with whatever aid) rather than exams? Edit: which is the flip side of what s-shellfish is saying
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by carlob 8y ago
Can't you do something with some kind of generalized z occlusion? (I guess that would be r). However it doesn't seem that your cells are using geodesics, so it's probably not on the surface.
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by carlob 8y ago
There is something weird I've noticed: the map appears to be above the Voronoi graph, so when you set its opacity to 1 it's impossible to see the graph. I was playing with that because I was annoyed by the graph at the antipodes a
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by carlob 8y ago
> Still, the ICE is an excellent train. It's very punctual (Germans will complain when it's five minutes late)... I've personally never been on a German train that was on time. Of course this is anecdata, but still...
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by carlob 8y ago
2560x1440 matte
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by carlob 8y ago
I think that the panel is on par with the one my 2013 MBP had, so yes, a little worse than the newer models. However I feel that the difference is more than made up by the matte finish especially in bright light situations. But then again I
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by carlob 8y ago
I got myself a Thinkpad T480s. I ended up spending around 2.5k for a machine that has 24GB of RAM, 1TB of PCIe SSD and weights a pound less than a MBP. The keyboard is stellar, the screen is matte, and it has HDMI, both old and new USB port
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by carlob 8y ago
I remember some form of this came out on opinionator, a thoroughly enjoyable read! https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/the-ashtray...
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by carlob 8y ago
In the video Barron explains why going from odd to even is always easier than going from even to odd.
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by carlob 8y ago
> I've had real truffle oil in Croatia and it is absolutely divine. A far cry from the synthetic stuff, which I can now smell a mile off. The real deal is incredibly expensive, mind. There is no such thing as real truffle oil: take
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by carlob 9y ago
> which is 14 foot-lamberts (a measure of luminance in cinema). In comparison, the LED screen has a peak brightness level around 300 nits (a measurement of brightness) in case anyone is wondering: https://www.wolframalpha.com&
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by carlob 9y ago
This is really interesting in the context of that link: if I remember correctly Wittgenstein renounced his previous ideas on language after working for a few years in an elementary school. Some think that this change was prompted by direct
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by carlob 9y ago
Probably Kid A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_A
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by carlob 9y ago
Ryanair doesn't do any long haul flights as far as am I aware of, so the number of cycles should be pretty much comparable if not larger for Ryanair.
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by carlob 9y ago
Yeah but there are only so many places where you can build a dam. And also the usual equation renewable = safe for the environment and humans doesn't quite work: as many other commenters have pointed out dams are very bad for the envir
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by carlob 9y ago
Yeah, hydro should really not be considered renewable, not just because it's invasive, but also because it's not renewable: dams fill up with silt and have to be either abandoned, removed or desilted. Go read Cadillac Desert, it&#
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by carlob 9y ago
Now imagine that this is not facebook's AI trying to get more engagement, but a global AI that has humanity's best interest as a goal: preventing wars and famines, greater good for greater number sort of thing. What if the ultimat
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by carlob 9y ago
Telegram uses emojis to verify phone calls https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/30/telegrams-voice-calls-ar...
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by carlob 9y ago
It's a run length encoded version of that pattern: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/RLE
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by carlob 9y ago
I love the name Sir Robin, but to me it looks like there is the profile of a cat at the top: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Knightship
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by carlob 9y ago
Speak for your own grandma! After mine died I discovered she had studied mathematics under Peano for a couple of years before getting married. Unfortunately the only source I have for this interaction with Peano is an inscription on a Dover
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by carlob 9y ago
Things are a bit more complicated than this. In your toy system a stone that stays still (DC) would have no power (potential energy), which is false. Also in your toy system m is constant. In general for AC you have both V and I oscillating
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by carlob 9y ago
Mmmm, no in alternating current V is alternating as well as I
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by carlob 9y ago
Also remember that P=IV is the equation for DC, not AC.
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by carlob 9y ago
Yep, I was a graduate student in physics, but not at all in that field. The reason why I recognize Dalibard's name even misspelled is because I was a student in the same institution and I used to know several of his grad students. Litt
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by carlob 9y ago
> Aspect, Dalibrand and Roger (1982) Aspect, Dalibard and Roger (1982)
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by carlob 9y ago
Pregnancies are not all exactly planned…
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by carlob 9y ago
How do you feel doesn't go into it. You probably feel like shit, granted. But we as a society have decided that it's more important that women can feel at least a little bit safer having a family as well as a career and we've
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by carlob 9y ago
Commuter rail would be Transilien in Paris. RER is really a lot like NYC subway, maybe express trains. It's the normal Paris subway that is weird in that its stops are waaaay too dense. To give you some perspective: a decent cyclist wi
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by carlob 9y ago
> Lots of fun stuff here: https://www.citymetric.com/transport/what-largest-metro-syst... . Seems a bit disingenuous to count far out Queens as subway, but not RER in Paris, which is just as far and unfrequent.

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