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by goerz 7y ago
I'm a little confused. Do they exert creative control over things that are submitted for notarization? I was under the impression that only apps submitted for the App store are "reviewed", while notarization is a fully automa
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by goerz 7y ago
Quantum chemist. Quite different from nuclear physics.
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by goerz 7y ago
I’ve stayed in Stanford dorms, and they were pretty swanky (but then, so was pretty much every other dorm in the US I’ve seen)
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by goerz 7y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “When performance is more important than safety, Fortran programs are easier to write and maintain.” The fact that arrays are not based on pointers makes Fortran a much safer language than C. It’s very hard to
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by goerz 7y ago
Aren’t all Springer books online at SpringerLink?
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by goerz 7y ago
Actually, in my entire ~10 years of having been a grad student and then researcher in theoretical physics, I didn't take out books from a library even once! I have yet to come across any material that is not available in electronic for
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by goerz 7y ago
I don't see why cards need to be quite that simple. I generally take about 10-15 seconds for reviewing each card. A lot of my cards are why/how/what questions (typical examples: "Why are bras covariant?"/"
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by goerz 7y ago
The key insight that Nielsen is advocating for is to use spaced repetition for concepts , not just facts. Understanding comes first, and then you deliberately try to cement a rich network that understanding in your long term memory. Person
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How can we develop transformative tools for thought?(numinous.productions)
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by goerz 7y ago
Either use Anaconda (if you’re using a lot of science libraries, or you also want to install non-python stuff like git, pandoc, or nodejs), or pyenv, which will install and manage multiple versions of Python for you in parallel. In fact pye
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by goerz 7y ago
Are they reporting things that are factually incorrect?
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by goerz 7y ago
Very nice! I might give it another try sometime soon, then!
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by goerz 7y ago
I haven't really looked at plotly in a very long time. At that time, it was cloud-based. Having the data I'm plotting sent to ploty's servers, or more generally, my plots depending on the availability of some remote server, w
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by goerz 7y ago
That does look impressive! I'm tempted to check how well this runs in Wine (since I'm not a Windows user)
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by goerz 7y ago
The problem I have with all of these regex websites and tools is that they usually only use the regex dialect of whatever language they’re written in. Or at best, a very incomplete list of dialects. Subtle differences between dialects matte
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by goerz 7y ago
As far as "fully featured" goes, there is nothing more fully featured than matplotlib. It just tends to take a lot more code to generate a plot, compared to some higher-level libraries, so for simple visualizations, matplotlib may
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by goerz 7y ago
How is matplotlib outdated? It's just relatively low-level, so it might be quicker to use high-level tools like seaborn or altair (which use matplotlib as their backend), if that fits the situation. For heavily customized publication-r
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by goerz 7y ago
Me too! $410M worth of caviar sounded like a lot of caviar!
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by goerz 7y ago
BetterTouchTool
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by goerz 7y ago
The tool itself is actually Windows-only, it seems. Also, a more interesting question would be how to map caps lock to ctrl (or something else) on hold, and esc on tap, across platforms.
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by goerz 7y ago
The underlying project was “argunet” ( http://www.argunet.org/ )
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by goerz 7y ago
Philosophers. We were using the early predecessor of this in our philosophy of science course 10 years ago or so (the TA was the guy who’s now the professor behind this project). It’s a pretty neat way to analyze informal logic.
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by goerz 7y ago
I don't think I understand the security implications of this either. Seems distasteful, but how could it be exploited?
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by goerz 7y ago
For people who want to make their own: a lot of these are very easy to create in LaTeX. I made a bunch of templates a few years ago ( https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/printable-paper-with-latex-an... ) that I still regular
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by goerz 7y ago
Insurance companies are insured against big payouts (reinsurance). As long as it’s not the literal apocalypse, they will pay.
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by goerz 7y ago
You mean quantum computing (for which photonics are not a leading candidate), or regular photonic computing? Because the latter doesn’t scale any better than normal computers.
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by goerz 7y ago
Unlikely, as they wouldn’t keep using methods that they’ve broken themselves
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by goerz 7y ago
about $25 per month, depending on the current EUR/USD conversion rate. It's a machine from their "server auction" ( https://www.hetzner.com/sb )
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by goerz 7y ago
I did! I'm using ResilioSync to synchronize across devices, including a cheap Hetzner server with a 6TB harddrive, and then use Secure ShellFish to access that server from iOS devices (while ResilioSync does have an iOS app, that one i
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by goerz 7y ago
I wish that was a system-wide feature for external hardware keyboards like Apple's "Smart Keyboard Folio" (exactly like the modifier settings for keyboards available on the Mac)

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