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by carlob 11y ago
Here in Italy the big issue is that many business will just not declare cash transactions. It's pretty common not to be given a receipt when buying a coffee and often when you visit a doctor they'll say: do you want the invoice or
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by carlob 11y ago
> the most puzzling detail of Genz’s translation of Joel’s description was his claim that the di lep connected each atoll and island to all 33 others. That would yield a trillion trillion paths, far too many for even the most adept wave
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by carlob 11y ago
> At every multiplication the previous error gets multiplied This is a bit of an oversimplification as well, it's not like you keep multiplying pi with itself over and over again and it's not like the error you introduce is ran
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by carlob 11y ago
Hungary uses YYYY/MM/DD which is my favorite, because it's consistent with the endianness of numbers.
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by carlob 11y ago
> [+] … Von Neumann model? Von Neumann J 1945 Rev. Econ. Studies 13 1 Can't find the full text at the moment, sorry.
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by carlob 11y ago
But Aluminium is not that reactive once the surface has oxidized.
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by carlob 11y ago
I suspect it comes from statistical physics, as it's a very common approximation when you're in the thermodynamical limit, which basically means that the phase space has a very large number of dimensions.
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by carlob 11y ago
Or as one of my professor would say (after showing the calculation for n-dimensional spheres): "and that's why infinite dimensional oranges are all skin!"
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Profiling the Eyes: Φaithful or ROTen? Or Both?(blog.wolfram.com)
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by carlob 11y ago
Then I guess you can move to San Diego…
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by carlob 11y ago
https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Between.html Which is particularly useful for symbolically representing queries for entities. EntityClass["Element", "AtomicNumber" -> Between[{2,
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by carlob 11y ago
In Italy many people refer to mobiles as telefonino (lil' phone). I guess that doesn't really apply to phablets though :)
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by carlob 11y ago
I think that with global media we're much closer to having a generation where everybody at least understands English, than getting to the point where automatic translation is pleasant enough that you could read Anna Karenina translated
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by carlob 11y ago
I don't think that it's a matter of accent. I cannot speak for Spanish, but adult Italian learners do have an accent, but being that in general written Italian is pretty much phonetic and we only have 7 distinct vowel sounds howev
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by carlob 11y ago
Orientation of a vector is 2 dimensions (spherical coordinates), orientation of a 3D object is 3 dimensions (Euler angles). It all boils down to the fact that you can rotate the vector using itself as its axis and it stays the same, but you
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by carlob 11y ago
While Calvino is great, I wouldn't call someone who won a Nobel prize for literature underrated .
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by carlob 11y ago
> I guess they still had a few other opportunities...school, picnics, sports, swimming down at the creek, church, civic youth groups, summer camp, etc... Most of these are also pretty modern things. Long education and leisure time did no
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by carlob 11y ago
Yeah but the first one was 1 the second was 10, not the other way around. After one month at 1 how do you know you're going to average out at 5.5?
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by carlob 11y ago
True, but still how many broke musicians and actors should be considering this month's zero income a fluctuation and get into credit card debt and how many should just be more conservative with their spending?
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by carlob 11y ago
Correct, but a bit misleading. You're taking a person that has income that increases tenfold over a year. For most people the rate of increase of income is smaller than credit card interest rates, and you can really justify high intere
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by carlob 11y ago
Yes, I meant as a foreign romance language of course. My point was that it's funny that you've discovered it independently.
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by carlob 11y ago
(As an Italian who has lived in France, but is now fortunately back to our sunny shores ;) ). I'm pretty sure it's something most people are taught in school when learning French. Notice that it's not just S. For example mûr
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by carlob 11y ago
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com
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by carlob 11y ago
How is this a low price tag? It's more or less what a Mercedes SLK 200 costs!
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by carlob 11y ago
Who would ever need more than 512kb of RAM…
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by carlob 11y ago
This is highly exagerated! Nowadays there are guides, yelp, tripadvisor and the like. Especially in the medium to high end there are plenty of places with reasonable prices and very good food. Antiche Carampane is a classic for fish, though
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by carlob 11y ago
Another incredible horse meat delicacy in Italy is the "pesto di cavallo" from Parma: imagine a tartare, but without all the yolk and capers bullshit and made of horse rather than beef… And in Italy is strictly forbidden to slaugh
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by carlob 11y ago
I would really like to know who is the farthest person from Z on facebook, or at least what their distance is.
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by carlob 11y ago
Reminds me of a thing we worked on some time ago: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/04/data-science-of-the-f... Unfortunately the degrees of separation is not something we could ever have computed with the limit
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by carlob 11y ago
The trapezoid rule, also known as Tai's method in the diabetes community. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

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