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by cdwhite 13y ago
A standard intro materials science textbook wouldn't tell you exactly what you're looking for, but it would give you an idea of what the state of the art is and where different materials are used and also a little bit of potted hi
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Is There Any Point to the 12 Times Table?(blog.wolfram.com)
20 points by cdwhite 13y ago|9 comments
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GNUnet(gnunet.org)
193 points by cdwhite 13y ago|46 comments
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by cdwhite 13y ago
Kemal. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n17/perry-anderson/kemalism . I feel that "dictator", while technically accurate, doesn't have quite the right connotation---his rule didn't have the same totalitarian nature that those of Stalin, Hitler, Hu
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The Deep State (2012)(newyorker.com)
1 points by cdwhite 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 13y ago
Hürriyet, a left-leaning English-language daily, is covering the protests (and Erdoğan's response, the resulting politicking, and so on): http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ I should note that Hürriyet is historically quite unfriendly to Er
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Glucose Aversion in the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica [pdf](www4.ncsu.edu)
1 points by cdwhite 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 13y ago
I would be surprised to find that the NSA has a quantum computer that can quickly factor large numbers. There are very hard fundamental physics problems with quantum computing. IANAexpert, but as I understand it, the difficulty lies in clos
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by cdwhite 13y ago
That's interesting. In my undergraduate degree (which I believe to be fairly standard for the US), Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics were both part of a one-semester classical mechanics course, along with much else. I'm quite envious, t
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by cdwhite 13y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac... (Page is taking some time to load.)
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by cdwhite 14y ago
Eugene Volokh's take: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/25/man-who-took-off-his-shirt-...
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by cdwhite 14y ago
Getting started with vanilla LaTeX isn't actually that bad. The very bare minimum is easy (take the hello world document, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Basics#Our_first_documen... , as a template and start typing); after that, as yo
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by cdwhite 14y ago
One can imagine them dictating, if speech recognition software is sufficiently good. This doesn't work for code (or, perhaps, it doesn't work for the programming languages we have now---a programming language with syntax designed to be spok
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by cdwhite 14y ago
About representation theory of Lie algebras: physicists actually care about that quite a bit, as the the theory of spin is intimately tied up with the subject. Your point stands, though. I don't know of any major applications outside quantu
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The Crisis in Higher Education(technologyreview.com)
1 points by cdwhite 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 14y ago
Not true. I spent a summer not too long ago doing quantum Monte Carlo calculations for condensed-matter physics, and IIRC Valgrind showed that the whole thing was under 5 MB. Not only did it not require 1GB of RAM, but code + data fit in th
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by cdwhite 14y ago
Note, though that the Houston light rail line connects two of the three big parts of Houston: Downtown and the Medical Center (+ the Museum district). I don't disagree that airport service is sorely needed, and the Galleria would be nice to
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The Secrets of Oobleck Revealed - Partially(rheothing.com)
1 points by cdwhite 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but there are circumstances when I prefer a good index to a text search. If a term is informally introduced and used a couple of times in the few pages before it's defined, for example, I usually want the formal definiti
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The End of Wall Street As They Knew It(nymag.com)
120 points by cdwhite 15y ago|65 comments
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John D. Rockefeller: A Character Study by Ida M. Tarbell(reformation.org)
3 points by cdwhite 15y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 15y ago
Yes. For Jobs to treat Obama otherwise seems somehow anti-republican: the fact that Obama is Jobs' peer---and indeed yours and mine---is, I think, a notion deeply rooted in American political culture. Considering the possibility of Jobs sho
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Ohio's War on the Middle Class(motherjones.com)
1 points by cdwhite 15y ago|0 comments
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What You Don't Know Can Kill You(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by cdwhite 15y ago|0 comments