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by grep2 10y ago
Vote with your feet: Germany for example has a strong democratic culture, vibrant economy, (nearly) free education system, functioning public healthcare and - best of all - people speak German. To be fair, just with English you'll also
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by grep2 14y ago
Who is interested in building the inverted echo chamber of the internet? Take a standard recommendation algorithm, apply it to news, let's say, and invert the similarity measure for the cluster the article belongs to. In the best case, the
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by grep2 14y ago
Thanks for contributing to such an awesome project. A self-contained young lady's illustrated primer (thanks, Neal Stephenson) attempting to judge the current knowledge level of the reader with a set of preliminary questions and delivering
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by grep2 14y ago
What would be required to grab your attention? Curated content? A better discussion platform? Or just plain more signal per noise? One approach I'd like to see implemented is some monte carlo comment display algorithm. Assign every user a b
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by grep2 14y ago
Just in case it is not obvious: These rejection letters are fictional[1], created as collage of negative reviews Santini received. But it's hilarious to read, I agree. Since the original site where Santini commented on it is gone, probably
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by grep2 14y ago
If you want to know why a car running android is a bad idea, take a ride in an 8 year old BMW/Mercedes with (back then) state of the art navigation system. While the car itself is probably still nice, the "smart" part just feels horribly ou
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by grep2 14y ago
Did one of you check if airplay works in clamshell mode? I.e. when you have a keyboard/touchpad connected and wake up the mac with closed lid, does the screen content show up on the tv wirelessly? This would be very convenient for a clutter
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by grep2 14y ago
I agree - the main problem is that basically no one has an idea what the day-to-day life of a scientist looks like. The outreach programs of Fermilab et.al. for school children are nice, but I'd be very interested to hear how to get in touc
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by grep2 14y ago
I would say that's a bad case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity - but unfortunately not even a well-written one. Fun fact: the wikipedia article contains a link to Littlewood's law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s
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by grep2 14y ago
In fact, one concept with increasing popularity in Germany are Packstations ( http://www.dhl.de/en/paket/privatkunden/packstation.html ). Basically it's a set of parcel boxes where customers can unlock the one that contains their packet. No
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by grep2 15y ago
And, from the experiences in Germany, I can tell you: Wind mills suffer badly from "not in my backyard" syndrome, since they destroy the scenery and make noise.
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by grep2 15y ago
Exactly, the point is that the 20micron-layer of silicon that was shearing off is now the solar cell. Compare that to 200micron sheets, as used currently, and you see where the savings come from (i.e. you can get up to 10x more solar cells
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by grep2 15y ago
This proposal reminds me of the RFC specifying a security flag in the IPv4 header. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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by grep2 15y ago
Actually, it is acceptably straightforward to include a custom header in org-mode. Basically you can create your own latex class in customize-group org-export-latex and then add a #+LATEX-HEADER: \input{stuff.tex} to your file to include th
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by grep2 15y ago
Actually, there are quite a few points where modern technologies would allow for a significant streamlining of research processes. Off the top of my head (as I work in the field): 1. data acquisition - you won't believe in how many labs dev