ddumas

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by ddumas 6y ago
Saw the title and thought "oh, I'll bet it is at some insane high pressure or some other exotic condition". Clicked through to an image of a diamond anvil. Not disappointed.
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by ddumas 8y ago
Very fun read. There is something really enjoyable about stories of people solving the problem at hand in the most straightforward way possible, even when that means digging into all kinds of low-level details that are usually abstracted a
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by ddumas 10y ago
Correction: The article states that Thomson's problem has only been solved for 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12 charges. However, in 2013 the 5-electron case was solved by Richard Schwartz. Here's the paper: http://www.tandfonline.
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by ddumas 10y ago
Yes, though of course here Stein is referring there to the Wolfram quote that's on slide 28 (roughly: certain kinds of development can't be done in academia) and not the condescending rejection of inquiry about mathematica's
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by ddumas 10y ago
I'm glad William included slide 10 calling attention to the hostile and insulting attitude Wolfram Research has toward mathematicians and reproducible science in general. (I think some of Sage Math Inc's other closed-course compe
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by ddumas 10y ago
It's an exciting thing to announce, and I'm sure it will go well. Best of luck.
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by ddumas 11y ago
It's not a filter, as others have suggested, but rather a standard artifact of vacuum-tube-based television cameras that were in use at the time. (I don't know why this lecture wasn't filmed, but the extensive dark halo effe
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by ddumas 12y ago
The obituary was too technical for Nature.
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by ddumas 12y ago
This looks nice. What I'd really like to see, along these lines, is a python library for automated document metadata extraction with confidence assessment, like this: ./autometa.py --author --verbose academic-paper.pdf Author: &