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by goerz 10y ago
[GoodNotes]( http://www.goodnotesapp.com ) on an iPad Pro (12.9 inch) and Apple Pencil. Haven't touched paper since getting it.
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by goerz 10y ago
Of course knowing a programming language strongly biases someone to choose that language in a project. I also agree you will not find a lot of people (if any) using Fortran who have not been introduced to the language as part of their resea
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by goerz 10y ago
You could define it more or less to be synonymous to 'lie': knowingly presenting false factual information. Fiction does not generally make factual statement or if it does (e.g. in the case of satire) it is labeled as non-factual.
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by goerz 10y ago
They'd have to bring them to court
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by goerz 10y ago
That's why there's separation of power in democracies. Not the government (i.e. the executive branch), but the courts are in charge of deciding what's "false"
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by goerz 10y ago
I think that's only party true. Physicists would probably not be exposed to Fortran if it wasn't for "apprenticeship". But the same would be true for any other very domain-specific language (let's say Mathematica)
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by goerz 10y ago
I find it highly alarming that that car doors wouldn't have a manual override. What if the car is in an accident, causing both a fire and a malfunction in the electronics that locks the doors? Human beings should always have the last w
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by goerz 10y ago
I haven't tried this myself, but my understanding is that Xcode can install compiled apps directly onto your iOS device, without a jailbreak: http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/12/howto-sideload-apps-iphone-ip..
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by goerz 10y ago
Self-compiling, you mean? I don't think so... just a copy of Xcode
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by goerz 10y ago
I can only speak for myself here, but for me having Blink means that I can travel for a week and not bring my laptop. Other apps like Prompt were pretty decent, but Blink has brought all the pain points (compared to my Macbook) to (almost)
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by goerz 10y ago
So that means Blink is actually dual-license? I was actually a little bit confused about how Blink makes the GPL App-store compatible. It would be interesting to see a blog post or some extended discussion on the website about the licensing
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by goerz 10y ago
While I'm personally fine with the $20 price tag, it does seem a bit steep for more casual users (ignoring the fact that they can also get it for free if they compile it for themselves). I wonder if this might hinder adoption. On the o
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by goerz 10y ago
I would stay away from any 15 year old material on security-related things
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by goerz 10y ago
For people who really need to touch-type function keys, I would recommend remapping ALT+1 -> F1, ALT+2 -> F2, etc.
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by goerz 10y ago
As someone doing highly CPU intensive computations, I would have appreciated more than 2 cores (or 4, with hyperthreading, I assume) in the 13' MBP. Granted, most of the time I can use my 80 core remote compute node, but it would still
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by goerz 10y ago
I find the lack of at least one legacy USB port extremely worrying. Will the following work with a USB to Firewire/USB-C dongle? * boot from USB (bootable CarbonCopyCloner backup) * Yubikey (government issued, so I can't easily ge
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by goerz 10y ago
Trading my iPhone 6 "down" for an iPhone SE was one of the best choices I ever made!
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by goerz 10y ago
How long before that headphone to lightening dongle will break the lightening port? A broken lightening port, Apple has told me, is "unfixable" and they wanted me to replace the entire phone.
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by goerz 10y ago
I wrote a very bare-bones version of this a few years ago for my personal use on MacOS, which has been running ever since: https://github.com/goerz/activity_logger/ This looks much more polished though, so it may
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by goerz 10y ago
I always assumed that when people talk about gradient-descent, they actually mean L-BFGS, i.e. a quasi-Hessian. After all, it can be used as a black-box algorithm that only needs to be told the gradient. At least in quantum optimization, th
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by goerz 11y ago
"Strong AI" is a not a very well-defined problem. People will disagree on whether something is a strong AI -- to the point that any solved problem will no longer be considered strong AI, as soon as it has been solved. Quantum comp
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by goerz 11y ago
Ideally yes, but unfortunately mosh doesn't get through most firewalls, as far as I can tell. A lot of networks filter everything except port 22.
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by goerz 11y ago
It's definitely interesting! ;-)
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by goerz 11y ago
Probably not overly controversial, but still a conjecture. That is, nobody has shown how exactly classical physics emerges from quantum mechanics (specifically, the measurement problem). Note that this is a separate and more fundamental iss
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by goerz 11y ago
Traditionally, in quantum mechanics a measurement "breaks the system": the state of the system is instantaneously modified in a way that does not follow the normal equation of motion (the Schrödinger equation). This is known as th
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by goerz 11y ago
Yes, but for the first time, it's very tolerable (to me, personally). The friction actually does feel close to pen and paper
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by goerz 11y ago
The iPad Pro together with the Pencil has been an absolute game changer for note taking. I tried capacitive styluses on older iPad models before, but I've never had something before that is 100% my normal handwriting (indistinguishable
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by goerz 11y ago
I found GoodNotes to be absolutely perfect for my needs of a note-taking app. With the Pencil, it has completely replaced paper for me. It also does conversion from handwriting to text, although I can't say I use that feature much. It
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by goerz 11y ago
Actually, being too thin is what I hate most about the iPhone 6. Instead of making phones thinner, they should use that space for the battery. If they had the thickness of an iPhone 4 (which in my view was perfect), the battery might last t
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by goerz 11y ago
Except that when they claim 1 day battery power, it's actually at most 0.5 days, with slightly above average usage or after the phone has aged a year. I'd love to have something that's designed for 1.5 days, so that I could a

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