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by evanb 10y ago
Also if you like beets.
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by evanb 10y ago
I moved to Jülich in November. There's all sorts of interesting industrial, technological, and scientific research going on here---it's not just the Forschungszentrum and the space agency. Cologne and Aachen aren't far. Wo
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by evanb 10y ago
Honestly, we hacked most of it together with perl. https://www.xkcd.com/224/
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by evanb 10y ago
Indeed, computational complexity depends on the physical laws of the universe. Suppose your universe admitted a computer where, with finite power, in the first second you could execute one instruction, and then you could run the next instr
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Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation(scottaaronson.com)
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by evanb 10y ago
I'm the author of METAQ. I wasn't contacted for this story, but feel free to ask me anything of interest!
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Increasing HPC Utilization with Meta-Queues(nextplatform.com)
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by evanb 10y ago
When asked to peer review something for academic publication, the PDF of the paper is, in my experience, never ever emailed.
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by evanb 10y ago
In many systems, you can "check in" at a station---put the bike back, take it right back out, and reset the clock.
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by evanb 10y ago
Capital Bikeshare fought with the Parks Service for years to put stations at the mall. It was extremely popular before NPS finally consented. You're right that tourists now boost the numbers. As far as DC being super small goes, st
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by evanb 10y ago
The example isn't base two. It's base 10. It just happens to be a number that only has 0s and 1s. Like eleven. Or 1000.
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Pi and the Golden Ratio(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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It approaches 2. 2/3+(2/3)^2 = 2/3 + 4/9 = 6/9+4/9=10/9 > 1, and all the terms are positive, so as you add more terms it will get farther from 1. If you do 10 terms you get to 1.96532somethingsometh
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by evanb 10y ago
"A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode" -- Astronautics, issue 38, Oct 1937
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I'm Kevin Mitnick, the World’s Most Famous Hacker. AMA(reddit.com)
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by evanb 10y ago
"Cold" in astrophysical settings tends to mean T << µ (the chemical potential) which usually justifies a low temperature expansion in T/µ, although thermal effects can be qualitatively important.
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by evanb 10y ago
Objects far apart from one another move at relatively greater speeds after accounting for the expansion of the universe simply because there's new space getting created in between. Nothing moves faster than light relative to its local
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Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed(vanityfair.com)
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by evanb 10y ago
For more about his experience in the Spanish Civil War and its influence on his writing, I suggest the In Our Time episode on Animal Farm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wgkz4
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by evanb 10y ago
Why can't I play the tour levels without network?! It makes no sense, and seriously undermines the value of the app as something to do on the train.
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by evanb 10y ago
Many institutions have a hard rule that says you can't start a postdoc if you're more than 5 years out of your PhD program (discounting any time for parental leave, medical leaves of absence, etc.).
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by evanb 10y ago
Wave functions do not collapse in the realist view, as explained in the article. The cost, however, is a giant explosion of alternate possibilities all having equal reality, summed in superposition. But, the point is, there is at least one
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by evanb 10y ago
The physics stack exchange has basically two populations: people learning physics and asking introductory questions, and experts gathering to discuss detailed questions. It's really an example of a great egalitarian online community.
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In the realist interpretation, even without people, you wind up in entangled states after measurement of a spin (where by "measurement" I mean: allow a giant classical system to interact with a spin and tilt a pointer on some gaug
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by evanb 10y ago
> If there’s no conflict of interest, it’s often because you’re just not interested. The opposite of "interested" in "conflict of interest" is "disinterested", not "uninterested".
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by evanb 10y ago
There are no videos of the lectures of the material the book is based on. The videos Gates put up are the Messenger Lectures that Feynman gave at Cornell.
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by evanb 10y ago
More pandigital approximations in http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/0804.html
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Pandigital approximation to e, correct to ~18E24 digits(youtube.com)
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Thermodynamics constrains interpretations of quantum mechanics(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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Memory-Driven Computing and the Machine(preposterousuniverse.com)
1 points by evanb 10y ago|0 comments

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