darthoctopus

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by darthoctopus 4y ago
1. these days 2. nursing may be female-dominated, but the gender ratio of doctors (for whom the industry is significantly more profitable) is still heavily skewed towards men, is it not?
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising.
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
Avi Loeb again??
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Show HN: What do avoided crossings sound like?(hyad.es)
32 points by darthoctopus 4y ago|5 comments
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
not any more! thanks UKIP!
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
The key difference here is that every player is forced to give money each tick, whereas in your implementation players are randomly selected to give money. The following implementation does yield an exponential distribution: for _ in
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
This is the Boltzmann game! It's a classic classroom experiment that's useful in conceptualising thermodynamical evolution and the exponential distribution. It's quite sad to see it presented here without attribution; the app
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by darthoctopus 5y ago
(2015)
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by darthoctopus 5y ago
Relevant reading as well: https://qntm.org/abolish
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by darthoctopus 5y ago
this strikes me as a considerably smugger formulation of Hanlon's Razor with none of the charity of the original…
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by darthoctopus 5y ago
> I have never seen someone try to use Pauli matrices to solve a trigonometry problem, but it can certainly be done. The Pauli matrices in this context are isomorphic to quaternions, which certainly have been used to solve geometric prob
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by darthoctopus 5y ago
How does this compare with astropy's units module? The usage (after preamble) seems pretty similar: see e.g. https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/units/index.html . As far as I can see, this part of astropy
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MangaDex is down until further notice(mangadex.org)
1 points by darthoctopus 6y ago|0 comments
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by darthoctopus 6y ago
That's not what Noether's theorem means! The "symmetries" referred to here are operations which leave invariant the action of the physical system (heuristically, the physical laws governing the system). To the extent tha
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by darthoctopus 6y ago
This is very much an Arch issue. The publicly available debian/fedora pandoc packages are statically linked, and, until two years ago, so was the Arch Linux pandoc package. The change to dynamic linking (and therefore 700+ MB of Haskel
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by darthoctopus 6y ago
community-contributed subtitles are an essential part of the appeal of YouTube for me, particularly with non-English videos from small operations who may not have the resources to provide quality transcriptions/translations. I don&#x27
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by darthoctopus 6y ago
the assertion being made here is not that Mandarin will become a dominant text-based language; it already is one. rather, the argument is that the ascendancy of China, abetted by its economic strategy in the developing world, will force Man
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by darthoctopus 7y ago
As supplementary reading material (more to do with Galileo's character rather than competence), I highly recommend the series of articles [1] entitled "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown", which provides a great deal of historical
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by darthoctopus 7y ago
I have an xps13 (9360) running linux; it's been extremely sturdy and relatively painless to upgrade/repair (except for the memory, which is soldered on). it's also very compact. I've had almost no driver issues (one was
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by darthoctopus 7y ago
If you're on Linux, you can set up your compose key map to do the job. here's an example: https://gist.github.com/carlobaldassi/8951743
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by darthoctopus 8y ago
not relevant