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A rather strange conversation about Albert Einstein(yolanda3.dynalias.org)
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The Invisibles: undocumented college students(douglasmcgray.com)
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by golwengaud 16y ago
In retrospect, I probably should have submitted the XZ Utils project page: http://tukaani.org/xz/ . However, that page does not give the same picture of widespread adoption that the Wikipedia article does. That use was what interested me:
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by golwengaud 16y ago
I did, quite quickly. In particular, R seems to be focused on univariate data; support for multivariate data (things like "lego plot" histograms, or any kind of histogram in more than one variable) is patchy at best. Having said that, I mus
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Xz(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Traffic Guru (2008)(wilsonquarterly.com)
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The Integrationist(nytimes.com)
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Detroit Arcadia(harpers.org)
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Fermilab scientists find evidence for significant matter-antimatter asymmetry(symmetrymagazine.org)
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Software Carpentry(software-carpentry.org)
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Via longform.org.
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Citicorp Building: The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis (1995)(duke.edu)
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Original paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/full/nature0...
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Asteroid ice hints at rocky start to life on Earth(nature.com)
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Not quite, as there's only one independent clause: "the media corporations [...] have found themselves with little immunity against the financial crisis." But it is an exceedingly complex sentence, with an unusual number of dependent clause
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Al Jazeera English: The Most Hated Name in News(walrusmagazine.com)
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by golwengaud 17y ago
I think of "correlation" as a measure of how much of the variation in one variable affects that in another. This explains why acceptable correlation levels vary between disciplines: one variable explaining 40% of the variation in another
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by golwengaud 17y ago
RHIC press release: http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/news2/news.asp?a=1073&t=pr I couldn't find the actual paper -- the most recent paper on Arxiv from STAR, http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1641 , is about the electric charge balance function.
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by golwengaud 17y ago
I think the argument is that democracies tend to be more stable. Weimar was an attempt to patch together a democratic successor to a fairly authoritarian state, and Louis XIV's rule was at best metastable. Near the end of his reign, the War