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Tinder Makes Its First Match in Antarctica – The Cut(nymag.com)
1 points by evanb 12y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 12y ago
Linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939637
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[1206.0312] Quantitative Analysis of Narrative Reports of Psychedelic Drugs(arxiv.org)
2 points by evanb 12y ago|2 comments
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by evanb 12y ago
I didn't realize it was US only. I wonder why.
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by evanb 12y ago
I use facebook's Paper app, which is essentially this. I have found it to be totally stable, a much more pleasing interface, and (for those who care, I personally don't) you don't need the Messenger app either. I don't
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by evanb 12y ago
This is great. It would be good to let people look back at their previously played levels so they could check the understanding they develop later in the game.
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by evanb 12y ago
Let's stick to accept-reject questions for now :)
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by evanb 12y ago
Two! (see my same-level comment)
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by evanb 12y ago
That's true, but here's a construction: OOZZ OOSZZ LLSS ILTS ILTT IJT IJJJ That's built out of one full set of OZSLJTI. If you take two of those, one rotated by 180˚, you get a rectangle.
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by evanb 12y ago
This reminds me of dual photography: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/ in the sense that I imagine unscrambling the glittered image will be significantly easier if you can plug in known s
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by evanb 12y ago
But you can only make sense of it if you have the key... Or already know how to crack the code.
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by evanb 12y ago
If you don't have expertise in physics, Weinberg is extremely difficult to read---he uses notations that nobody else does, and its full of technicalities. A much more approachable first text for QFT is the book by Zee.
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by evanb 12y ago
Can I ask a question? It seems surprising to me that we should compare transgender to lesbian, gay, and bisexual. Shouldn't we compare transgender to male, female, and other genders? It seems to me that being transgender is about an
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by evanb 12y ago
Having a global timezone is not quite so easy for people's brains, either: About half of everybody will live in a place where the day changes in the middle of the... day, for the lack of a better expression. [The first day is the cale
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by evanb 12y ago
Almost everything Numberphile does would be good for that group!
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by evanb 12y ago
The construction of Nepal's flag is a straightedge-and-compass construction and is specified in their constitution. Numberphile made a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Gne3UHKHs
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by evanb 12y ago
There's some relevant discussion on this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244476
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“Portable 2 Compared to This Fish” – JOHN CLEESE Compaq Ad(youtube.com)
1 points by evanb 12y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 12y ago
Just for future reference for everybody involved, these "particle analog" phenomena have a name: quasiparticles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
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by evanb 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it were ultimately related to the fact that it's a solved game. Programs exist which provably never lose. So the strategy is known, there are (in principle, anyway) no "hard choices" that man
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by evanb 12y ago
I wrote a small bash wrapper for textbelt and use it to notify me when big jobs are done, via (execute huge computing job) && textmessage job is done. It's been extremely useful in terms of reducing the number of brai
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by evanb 12y ago
It's certainly a valid argument, but it's not... enlightening in the same way other kinds of arguments are.
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by evanb 12y ago
Faraday's discoveries were quickly (or preemptively) "mathified" by Ampere, Coulomb, Gauss, (and Heaviside!). Maxwell got the equations named after him for "unifying" them, as it were, and on the basis of symmetry
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Before Google, Here's What New Yorkers Asked the NYPL: Gothamist(gothamist.com)
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BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Truth(bbc.co.uk)
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Usbdriveby: horrifying proof-of-concept USB attack(boingboing.net)
2 points by evanb 12y ago|1 comments
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by evanb 12y ago
| Alternatively, wait a few hundred years until you need several hundred terabytes to store the blockchain, which is required for transactions. That's going to be a problem. It seems more likely to me that in a few hundred years, sever
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Sowing Mayhem, One Click at a Time(nytimes.com)
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by evanb 12y ago
Building under Manhattan is a little bit more complicated, since slight vibrations / rumblings can cause buildings to come deviate from plumb. http://thelaunchbox.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-6-7-2009.html http
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by evanb 12y ago
I was just about to say this. In the last few years the only people I've heard call it the Freedom Tower are people who are NOT from NYC.

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