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931.
by evanb 11y ago
People are incredulous when they themselves are skeptical. But it can still be incredible "that Obama...". The thing that is incredible is the occurrence or the circumstance. 'Incredible' is actually the correct word
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New propulsion technology makes satellites more nimble, durable(bostonglobe.com)
11 points by evanb 11y ago|0 comments
933.
by evanb 11y ago
He was quoting Yogi Berra.
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by evanb 12y ago
I don't know, actually. That seems more invasive that taking wisdom teeth out. I can ask around if you want.
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by evanb 12y ago
Even after my interview, people couldn't really give me a straight answer. The best anyone could say (which is how I answered too) is that it depends, on a case-by-case basis. Talk to people off-pole. Make sure everybody is safe &#x
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by evanb 12y ago
I'll re-post here what I posted the last time this came around: I applied for this job. I have a PhD in physics and have some administrative experience, and I didn't (yet) have a postdoc position. The application process was very
937.
by evanb 12y ago
I'm not sure if we read the same PDF. What I read said, right in the first paragraph: >After Struble attended to everything relating to the stop, including, inter alia, checking the driver’s licenses of Rodriguez and his passenger a
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by evanb 12y ago
The way I know P!=NP is that N=(P-1)! Of course P=NP if P=0 or N=1. So who knows. :)
939.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Edward Snowden Interview(youtube.com)
17 points by evanb 12y ago|1 comments
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by evanb 12y ago
Science Sparring Society had an interesting (and short) episode on this recently: http://www.acmescience.com/2015/02/sss-14-global-warming-vs-...
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The Self-Destructive Mania of Rep. Aaron Schock(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by evanb 12y ago|0 comments
942.
by evanb 12y ago
Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tob
943.
by evanb 12y ago
HI MIKE! I think you're the only other person I know who reads HN. Neat idea.
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by evanb 12y ago
I hope the manufacturer is internet-savvy enough to start producing the dress in white & gold.
945.
by evanb 12y ago
It'd be great if clicking the bookmarklet didn't navigate me away from the page I'm on but instead overlaid something.
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If you didnt get a PhD at an elite university, good luck finding an academic job(slate.com)
6 points by evanb 12y ago|1 comments
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[1502.03808] Lensing by Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in Interstellar(arxiv.org)
1 points by evanb 12y ago|0 comments
948.
by evanb 12y ago
I think there might be a nice way to use #0 to blow up the numbers even further. But I have to do real work :)
949.
by evanb 12y ago
Smart. It didn't occur to me to have the base case be an arbitrary function. Yours is much larger than mine. One comment: M=Nest; is a waste of characters. I tried that in my solution too, but it wound up costing me an extra charac
950.
by evanb 12y ago
Using the infix special form ~ we can cram in another ^#: u[n_][a_,b_]:=If[n==0,a b,Nest[a~u[n-1]~#&,1,b]];Nest[#~u[#^#^#^#]~#&,9,9~u@9~9] I should also note that I'm not confident as to which of Nest[#~u[#^#^#^#]~#&
951.
by evanb 12y ago
I just realized 99 should be replaced with "9!".
952.
by evanb 12y ago
Mathematica has important whitespace for indicating multiplication, and it's not clear what counts as a keyword, so here are 80 copy-and-pasteable characters: u[n_][a_][b_]:=If[n==0,a b,Nest[u[n-1]@a,1,b]];Nest[u[#^#^#][#]@#&,9
953.
by evanb 12y ago
> In what sense is the BB sequence even well-defined if we can prove that it can't be determined? Every BB number can be determined. However, each one must require zillions of special cases which require their own reasoning---thi
954.
Another 34000 People Are About to Put Their Future in the Hands of an Algorithm(fivethirtyeight.com)
66 points by evanb 12y ago|24 comments
955.
by evanb 12y ago
Please don't link straight to PDFs on the arXiv. Link instead to the abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880
956.
Pentagon 2008 study claims Putin has Asperger's syndrome(usatoday.com)
3 points by evanb 12y ago|2 comments
957.
by evanb 12y ago
Well that's the first time I've been called a communist!
958.
by evanb 12y ago
I violated Responsible Reading Of The Internet Rule #1 and accidentally looked at the comments. I am having a hard time reconciling the vehement anti-net-neutrality anti-government hair-on-fire screaming there with the reasoned discussion
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“Naches” from our Machines(edge.org)
1 points by evanb 12y ago|0 comments
960.
by evanb 12y ago
If rotational symmetry is important to the dynamics, you're likely to do much better on coarse grids with a hex layout, because it has a finer rotational symmetry. Of course, with a small-enough grid rotational symmetry should be resto

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