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by evanb 9y ago
I doubt Pournelle named it that himself. But it gets awkward to discuss something when somebody else has named it after you---I spent an hour as an undergraduate watching Shor simply call it "the factoring algorithm", trying to a
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by evanb 9y ago
Some of my favorite SF is stuff he wrote with Larry Niven: Footfall, Inferno, Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye (and The Gripping Hand)
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by evanb 9y ago
If there's prior art, what's the difference if a system is first to file or first to invent?
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To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software(nytimes.com)
281 points by evanb 9y ago|242 comments
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by evanb 9y ago
I broke up my list into cultural (that is, about the people, history, etc), popular (that is, not aimed at a student or an expert), and texts. CULTURAL Einstein - Essays in Humanism Frayn
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by evanb 9y ago
One Night Ultimate Werewolf gives the app away for free, and you can play with just a deck of cards.
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by evanb 9y ago
Related recent radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/ceremony/
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by evanb 9y ago
Here's a similar list from 2006 (some papers in common): http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2006/07/stupid-title-list.ht...
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by evanb 9y ago
The arXiv _is_ moderated. If there's something wacky the moderators tend to ding it.
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by evanb 9y ago
What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law The West Wing Weekly Planet Money Heavyweight The Adventure Zone This American Life In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg Invisibilia StartUp Freakonomics Radiolab 99% Invisible The Tobolowsky Files S-Town Coff
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/r/ProgrammerHumor users design infuriating volume controls(reddit.com)
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by evanb 9y ago
Is there no confirmation under penalty of perjury that the image provided was a photograph (and not just a likeness)? Or, is it as he claims, satisfactory according to the requisite standards? "Artist uses a blog post to provide evide
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by evanb 9y ago
Energy, not Education.
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by evanb 9y ago
You may be interested in http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rch.pdf
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by evanb 9y ago
Hey Guy! We should finish the horizon paper :D -- Evan
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by evanb 9y ago
I can make a classical analogy. The Higgs explains why fundamental particles have mass in the "F=ma" Newton's-Laws-Of-Motion sense. But you can formulate classical mechanics without gravity at all. The m in this equation is
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by evanb 9y ago
While it's true that the graviton has never been observed, the point is that string theory was not, originally, a "theory of everything" candidate! It was originally a way of trying to understand QCD and strong dynamics. In
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by evanb 9y ago
If you're right-handed.
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How a custom blazer in 90 minutes just might change the apparel business(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by evanb 9y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 9y ago
It's the verb/adjective sense, as in "I ran a marathon and am exhausted." rather than the noun sense, as in "The car's exhaust was unpleasant to breathe." In the sense used, "exhaust" means &quo
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by evanb 9y ago
How did you arrange your visit to the vault? I want to plan a trip to Svalbard, and I emailed about visiting the vault, but they said they do not do tours. They even resisted my "I'm a scientist who enjoys visiting big scientifi
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by evanb 10y ago
Humans can see polarization without any apparatus, but it requires practice and patience. http://www.polarization.com/haidinger/haidinger.html
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Why We’ve Removed Longform from the App Store(medium.com)
3 points by evanb 10y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 10y ago
I often set `alias fucking='sudo'`. >$ make me a sandwich permission denied >$ fucking make me a sandwich [or] >$ fucking !!
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by evanb 10y ago
'Pray tell' has an 'e'.
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by evanb 10y ago
I noticed that straight away---and I hardly know anything about music! It just breaks the symmetry pattern, so it couldn't be right.
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by evanb 10y ago
"Alexa, set an alarm for three o'clock in the morning."
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Reddit Transparency Report 2016(reddit.com)
1 points by evanb 10y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 10y ago
I didn't live in Livermore, I lived in Berkeley, and though I had a long anticommute I had a better network of people there. I like Germany so far (arrived in November), but I'm more of a city person. I'm looking to move to
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by evanb 10y ago
I don't know, actually. But their website http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10550 has a phone number +49 2203 601-0.

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