carlob

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   by carlob 11y ago

   Put on github instead of passing it down? Might not work for non-comp-sci students that use LaTeX, but are not familiar with git.
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   by carlob 11y ago

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
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   by carlob 11y ago

   I would really like to see this with actual income on the x axis rather than just the percentile. And then again with the log of income.
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   by carlob 11y ago

   This article is already a summary of a longer medium article…
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   by carlob 11y ago

   Superlux also sound great and are under $50.
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   by carlob 11y ago

   Kinda the same thing in the Wolfram Language: With[{ geopositions = ParallelMap[ First[ StringCases[ URLFetch["http://www.teslamotors.com" <> #], ("https://map
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   by carlob 11y ago

   I don't know about the US, but I've always thought that, just like chicken pork has both white and red meat. You can sometimes see it when you slice a pork loin [1]. [1] http://www.donaldrussell.com/media/cata
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   by carlob 11y ago

   Something excavated in the '90s in the Mediterranean probably officially belongs to the country it was found in, as such it was probably smuggled. If the museum were to say how they got it and where it was found, the rightful owners mi
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   by carlob 11y ago

   Italy has never been very isolationist, but there has been some debate when Denny Méndez [1] won Miss Italia. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Méndez
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    by carlob 11y ago

    I remember reading a paper that claimed that integrating on a Grassmann variable space was equivalent to integrating in a space with -2 dimensions of the usual commuting variables.
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    by carlob 11y ago

    You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_rotation and there was this on HN some time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8377680 Though I didn't find Scott Aaronson to be as clea
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    by carlob 11y ago

    IIRC when I studied physics I think they tried to tell us that there was something profound about the fact that time-invariant systems conserve kinetic energy and space-invariant systems conserve momentum, … during the first year, but I don
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    by carlob 11y ago

    or \bi\b
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    by carlob 11y ago

    > (still better than what you mostly drink in the U.S :)) You'd be surprised at how much better the average coffee is in a large American city wrt to the abomination you call espresso in Paris. :)
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    by carlob 11y ago

    I don't know, maybe it's a matter of style. For example the coffee in Milan is not as good as the coffee in Naples. But I have to disagree with you about Spain and Portugal, I found pretty consistent good quality in Lisbon for exa
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    by carlob 11y ago

    I think the penetration of Nespresso in the French market might also be related to the consistently bad quality of espresso in cafés. I really don't understand how that has come to be, given that most of the other souther European coun
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    by carlob 11y ago

    > We spend a lot of time giving high-school students a general, liberal arts education, but I think there's room in secondary education, at least for highly motivated students, to drill deeply into one particular domain. I don'
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    by carlob 11y ago

    My brother found this because his home button was broken and now my parents have picked up on it even if their home button is perfectly functional.
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    Wolfram imageidentify.com(imageidentify.com)

    9 points by carlob 11y ago|0 comments
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    by carlob 11y ago

    Where is Bosnia and Herzegovina? I can understand removing some of the smallest countries, but Bosnia has a larger population than Albania or any of the three Baltic countries. I guess this would have been much more legible if it wasn'
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    by carlob 12y ago

    So much for the promise of the new macbook that does everything wirelessly…
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    by carlob 12y ago

    I want to hope it's RAM OP is referring to. But if it's disk, that is way way too low of a margin. You should keep at least 10% of your disk empty especially if it's an SSD.
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    by carlob 12y ago

    There was no affiliate code, the link only contained a bunch of query parameters to match the size and material of OP's map.
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    by carlob 12y ago

    I don't really understand why OP decided to print it and glue it in separate steps. It seems rather expensive rather than finding someone to do all the work. For example these guys would do the job for 142 euros http://sprin
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    by carlob 12y ago

    Italian SIM in Italy -> Italian SIM wherever = 10 Italian SIM in Italy -> French SIM wherever = 30 Italian SIM in France -> any European SIM wherever = 7
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    by carlob 12y ago

    They are now capped at 0.07 actually. National ones are not capped, and that's exactly my point.
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    by carlob 12y ago

    I was referring to top-ups. Top-ups in France are crazy expensive, most major carriers charge over 30 cents per minute without a monthly plan and that's well over the current max for roaming.
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    by carlob 12y ago

    I've been recently moving back and forth between Italy and France and there is one thing that bothers me with eurotariff: if I'm in Italy, a French friend is visiting me, and I send them a text with my non-roaming Italian phone I
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    by carlob 12y ago

    I'm not sure I agree, I think the really high-level option is to use a library and not roll your own. For example: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Spherical-...
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    by carlob 12y ago

    Not necessarily the most efficient though: the Box-Muller transform that is probably used in the call to randn is related to the transform you'd need to start from uniformly distributed reals. So your solution ends up pretty much using