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by jackfoxy 15y ago
The always outspoken Lubos Motl doesn't think much of the BBC article either http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/08/supersymmetry-and-irration...
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Study Says Drudge Report Drives More Traffic Than Facebook & Twitter Combined(mashable.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-new-generation/
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Would really like folks who down-voted you to explain themselves. The fact China (and Russia) are the only supports of North Korea says everything you need to know about the essence of the rulers of both countries.
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HadCRUT3: 30% of stations recorded a cooling trend in their whole history(motls.blogspot.com)
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Unintended consequence of reading the article: I need to rethink decades of conditioning. I thought Republicans opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Congrats Peteris and James! I've had a lot of fun watching the progress of Browserling through interacting with it. And congrats to Jonathan and Laura too!
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
One can argue philosophers, or a philosopher, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon , developed the scientific method. Bacon and Galileo were contemporaries. I don’t know if either influenced the other at all. Maybe they each independ
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
thx
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Please explain how native Coffeescript is available on Windows. I haven't been following that closely.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
This is a testament to how damned expensive it is to get into space. There is no subverting the laws of physics.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I hope all my down-voters understood the venue I referred to was New Scientist, not HN.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
This is an interview about politics. I think it is important to publish, but it demeans science journalism to publish it in this particular venue.
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What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet(wired.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Will strong AI ever enjoy a gin and tonic at the end of work on a summer's day? Will it ever feel the endorphin release from a strong run on the treadmill? Of course these are rhetorical questions. AI, however you define it, is a machine, a
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N Korean children begging, army starving(abc.net.au)
3 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
"Large-scale web app", true.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I've been in the biz long enough to see several paradigms touted as the end-all solution. Today it's the cloud, but it's not too hard to envision something the size of your smart-phone, or maybe even your smart-phone, as the server. There a
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Who’s your Doktorvater?(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Remember: results vary greatly for individual websites. So if your livelihood depends on web presence, monitor your own statistics and make sure there is a good user experience on all the browsers that matter to you.
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5 lessons from IBM's 100th anniversary(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Not exactly what you're looking for, but Newton explained the irregularities of the moon's orbit in the third book of his Principia . Unhappily I struggled through Cajori's revision of Mott's translation before a modern English translation
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Functional pearls(haskell.org)
4 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Read Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court . I think someone educated in science and engineering would do quite well, a dolt fully addicted to the entertainment industry, probably not so well.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
The title says it all. Believe it.
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RSS AMSU: all cooling and warming trends through May 2011(motls.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Yes. I'm not a mathematician, but I believe Gödel's incompleteness theorems only address arithmetic. I heard of a book that focuses on common misuses of Gödel's theorems, but don't have a reference. Anyone know of such a book?
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Rebooting the cosmos?(motls.blogspot.com)
28 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|8 comments
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Interview: Is climate change caused by solar inertial motion?(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Motl's humor is not always in the best taste.

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