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by jamessb 9y ago
Since "%>%" is the pipe operator I would guess "x pipe f of y", or "x pipe to f of y"
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> But trespassing on someone's property after receiving a request from them to leave is a crime. I am not a lawyer, but I don't think it is that simple. 25 CFR 11.411 - Criminal trespass requires the person comitting the offe
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by jamessb 9y ago
A " Pair of scales" does mean the same as a "balance", but "scales" on its own sually means a device containing an electronic (or spring) weighing mechanism.
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> I don't think universities, which are journals' bread and butter, are going to stop their subscriptions anytime soon. Around 60 German universities have cancelled their contracts with Elsevier: http://www.the-scien
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by jamessb 9y ago
DevonThink has a "See Also and Classify" feature [1] that will suggest other notes related to a note, or suggest a category for to a note. [1]: see screenshot here http://blog.devontechnologies.com/2016/11&#x2
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by jamessb 9y ago
I made an alternative interface that displays the same data using D3: https://jamesscottbrown.github.io/ai-progress-vis/index.html
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An offensive weapon is an article made, adapted or intended for causing injury. Since a baseball bat is not made for causing injury, and is generally not adapted for this purpose (though it might be, e.g. by stacking nails into it), it woul
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by jamessb 9y ago
The same question was asked on Ask Metafilter a decade ago, and received 237 answers: http://ask.metafilter.com/71101/What-single-book-is-the-best...
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by jamessb 9y ago
There is a 'Penrose Paving' outside the new Mathematical Institue in Oxford (the Andrew Wiles building), which opened in 2013. There's a video of Roger Penrose talking about it [1], and a time-lapse of it being laid [2]. [1]:
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by jamessb 9y ago
This seems to be a backronym, rather than the word's actual etymology [1]. [1]: https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2015/03/31/crud-another-...
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> So big land owners do get hammered trying to pass it on down generations. Many can get tax relief as a "national heritage asset" by opening to the public [1]. [1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tax-relief-f
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by jamessb 9y ago
This doesn't seem to be true. This site [1] lists many agencies (based in the US, UK and other countries) that will sell you a passenger ticket for a cargo ship. Availability is probably limited though, as each ship can only take a few
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by jamessb 9y ago
Some ransomware (e.g. Hitler [1]) deletes files rather than encrypting them, making ecovery impossible. [1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/development-v...
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by jamessb 9y ago
On a apge liek this [1], the tooltip when mousing pver 'present' is numbered '2.', and the tooltip when mousing over 'hervir - to boil' is '1.', which is the opposite of the order on the page. [1]: h
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by jamessb 9y ago
Similarly, PDFs of articles in the PeerJ family of journals (e.g. [1]) have a progress bar symbol at the bottom-right of each page, which is also a nice feature. [1]: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-103.pdf
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by jamessb 9y ago
>I think there are just too many visual similarities between various plants I get the impression that you tried to train a single classifier to diagnose disease in any species in the PlantVillage database. You might get better results by
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by jamessb 10y ago
Another, hackier, approach at the commandline is to use: strings file.pdf | grep -i fontname This will give a line like: <</StemV 120/FontName/ZXOBUP+MinionPro-BoldIt/FontStretch/Normal/Fo
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by jamessb 10y ago
There was a 2014 SIGGRAPH submission called "The Visual Microphone" [1]; it is also discussed in the 'research highlights'section of the Communications of the ACM [2]. [1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/mr
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Who are "we"? For example, "Almost everybody accepts that the brain does a tremendous amount of analog processing. The controversy lies in whether there is anything digital about it." [1] [1]: http://www.rle.m
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> For Special Operations use, it'd be nifty to have this technology digitally composited in real-time with MWIR imaging on the same wearable device. Base layer could be image intensification with this tech, then overlay any pixels f
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by jamessb 10y ago
This reminds me of the E.chromi scatalog: in 2009, the Cambridge iGEM team created a set of "color generator" biobricks that produced various pigments (carotenoids, melanin, violacein) [1], which led into a conceptual design proje
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Why is it an integer number? Entropy (in bits) is defined as - \sum_x (p(x) log_2 p(x)) There is no reason this has to be an integer, since probabilities are not restricted to being reciprocals of powers of 2. Consider also that you can sim
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by jamessb 10y ago
Steven Strogatz's Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos [1] is a great introduction. [1]: https://westviewpress.com/books/nonlinear-dynamics-and-chaos...
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by jamessb 10y ago
It is particular confusing that articles in Scientific Reports have URLs of the form http://www.nature.com/articles/srep<id> This means that on the HN (or Reddit) front-page they are listed simply as "(nat
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by jamessb 10y ago
It's a phrase that I've usually encountered in the past tense. Google Ngrams shows that in 1800 "held forth" was used about three times as frequently as "hold forth" [1], but this ratio decreased as both uses b
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This needs a "(2004)" in the title. The thesis was published (it's listed in bibliograpic databases [1], and ProQuest has the PDF [2]), and was then essentially re-published as a book [3] (here's a review in a journal
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by jamessb 10y ago
> Maybe the format needs to change. Perhaps journals should require video, audio commentary or automated note taking for publication. A 'world view' column in Nature suggested the same things last week [1]; the author described
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by jamessb 10y ago
They didn't use plutonium at all: they used polonium [1]. The article refers to polonium in some places (correctly), but plutonium in others (incorrectly). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium
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by jamessb 10y ago
I see that you allow the inclusion of arbitrary keys, but don't currently do anything with them. I currently keep notes as Markdown files, with similar key/value pairs at the start of each. I then have a hacky script [1] that extr
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by jamessb 10y ago
> expand past just simple markdown notes . . . list note type which has check boxes, list items, etc. You can achieve this without leaving markdown: I currently do this in NValt using a markdown preview theme that supports Github-flavou

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