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by jamessb 11y ago
The blog post does link to http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html John Cook also has a nice diagram adapted from it (Clicking on the arrows takes you to the explanation): http://www.john
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by jamessb 11y ago
The expression "dog's breakfast" is also correct - the OED lists it as being first used in 1892 (vs. 1933 for "pig's breakfast"): "dog's breakfast n. slang (in early use only similative) a confused m
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by jamessb 11y ago
The emphasis is because he wrote two articles: "How to become a good theoretical physicist" ( http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html ), and "How to become a bad theoretical physicist&qu
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by jamessb 11y ago
They're in the Github repository: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrzool/letter-boilerplate/... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrzool/cv-boilerplate/mast... https://
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by jamessb 11y ago
I think you are confusing 'unclassified' and 'declassified': declassified means that it was previously (but no longer) classified; unclassified means that it is not classified. If this had been classified then declassifi
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There's a (Mac only) notetaking program called Curio with many features, one of which is the ability to convert an outline (which it calls a 'list') to a mind-map or vice-versa: http://www.zengobi.com/products
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I've been wondering what is the analogue of syntax highlighting for natural languages The Writer Pro app from iA has a "Syntax Control" feature: https://brooksreview.net/2014/02/does-syntax-highlig
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I don't think the connection is obvious if the fourier transform is simply presented through equations, but it is after seeing an animation like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fourier_series_square_wav... or
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by jamessb 11y ago
This is the convention in mathematics. From the AMS statement on The Culture of Research and Scholarship in Mathematics : "For this reason, mathematicians traditionally list authors on joint papers in alphabetical order. An analysis
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by jamessb 11y ago
Your idea sounds a little like the Dayta iOS app, or the Daytum webapp/iOS app: https://www.macstories.net/iphone/dayta-review/ http://daytum.com/
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It is tackles above the shoulder (not waist) that are forbidden (along with striking an opponent with a stiff-arm whilst tackling, tripping, picking up and dropping a player etc.). Law 10.4 specifies what is considered 'dangerous pla
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It was also a problem during the siege at the 1972 Munich Olympics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre#Negotiations
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I agree. In this case, the text of the email is on the Wikipedia article for AltaVista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
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It's reasonably common for LaTeX documents to use PSTricks or PGF/TikZ or Asymptote to specify diagrams as text, within the main document. However, these use textual descriptions of diagrams, rather than ASCII-art pictures of them
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by jamessb 11y ago
This reminds me of Trigrad ('Tringle Gradient Image Compression'), which compresses images by sampling points (at locations biased by the results of sobel edge detection); de-compression is performed by delaunay triangulation, the
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by jamessb 11y ago
I don't know the article, but there are many sources for the individual claims, e.g.: * Denver is at 5,130–5,690 ft (1,564–1,731 m) [0] * The boiling point of water at this altitude is between 201 and 203 °F; at sea level it is 212 °F
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by jamessb 11y ago
I think the original mechanical analogy is due to Cohen and Horowitz: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v352/n6337/abs/352699a0... In this setup, cutting the link essentially converts the two spr
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by jamessb 11y ago
Another arxiv preprint by the same authors has more detail, and seems to be the essentially the same article but fleshed out more: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4443
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They estimated how likely particular notes were, using a kind of averaging procedure that corresponding to simulating an elastic foam. They used a fourier transform to identify the notes in a piece of music: they then simulated the physical
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by jamessb 11y ago
"TOSBack is a collaboration between the EFF, the Internet Society, and ToS;DR. Every day, we check the Terms and Policies of many online services to see if any of them have changed" https://tosback.org/ But it is
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by jamessb 11y ago
One of Gabor's grad students, Alan Nichols, gave a half-hour talk ( Learning Quantum Mechanics: Machines versus Humans ) that was previously posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912703
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by jamessb 11y ago
"Pencil and brush tools for sketching - quickly create custom shapes and paths." ( http://graphic.autodesk.com/mac/ ) I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'freehand tool': do you mean something
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"the committee is notorious for two things; its obsessive secrecy and an institutional aversion to controversy" The committee is certainly secretive, but as this makes it difficult to see exactly what candidates were considered an
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The article comments: "In a lot of respects, it’s quite amazing how accurate many calculations can be made with floating numbers, like orbital mechanics and heat equations" I'm not sure it is so surprising. In Nick Trefethen&
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by jamessb 11y ago
The scipy.misc.derivative() function uses a central difference formula, rather than exploiting the fact that a function is analytic: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.m... Applyi
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by jamessb 11y ago
Quite a juxtaposition to think about! This makes me think of King James Programming : "Posts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and Why's Poignant Gui
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People interestd by this may also be interested in 'The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics': http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/
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The title for the HN submission is currently very misleading. HN headline: "Ernst and Young Drops Degree Requirement for Recruitment" THE headline: "Ernst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruit
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The same team has previously done work using drones to build structures out of bricks (rather than ropes): http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/research-dandrea/research-projects/a... http://spectrum.ieee.org/a
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> Why do scientific "papers" insist of using PDF when HTML would be a much better choice Almost all journals do offer both HTML and PDF versions of their articles. The main advantage of PDF is that it appears exactly the same a

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