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HN previously had some discussion on an article that used IamgeMagick to do this correction on a video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713070
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In the 19th Centrury, everal experiments on human digestion were conducted on someone with a gunshot wound that left a fistula providing access to the stomach, somewhat like those cannula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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What is the difference between replication and reproduction? When people draw a distinction, it is usually that replication refers to doing exactly the same thing, and getting the same results, whereas reproduction refers to doing a diffe
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When Pandoc converts Markdown to LaTeX, it uses a template that speciefies what header and footer material to add ( http://pandoc.org/README.html#templates ). You could modify the default template to use whatever style file y
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And also "When does a physical system compute?" (Clare Horsman, Susan Stepney, Rob C. Wagner, Viv Kendon): http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/470/2169/2014...
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In case anyone else was wondering, the John Cook who worked on the paper is the one from the Global Change Institute [0], not the one from Singular Value Consulting/the Endeavour blog [1]. [0]: http://www.gci.uq.edu.au/
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That is what the OP says: The agency explains that it can't just block the one page because of the way Wikipedia's security settings work: "In this case, insofar as Wikipedia has decided to function on the basis of https, w
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You might be interested by colah's (Christopher Olah's) blog: https://colah.github.io/ Two articles in particular are good introductions to looking at neural networks in terms of higher dimensional data lying on l
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This is a classic article introducing the Chinese room argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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If you're trying to learn how to typeset formulae with LaTeX, detexify is great - it lets you draw a symbol, and tries to identify it: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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There was some discussion of a blog post explaining this paper here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833584
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On further thought this probably won't work very well: the histogram of colour distances will be multimodal, with one peak for each color in the image (and with the peak corresponding to the white background being far taller than the o
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This is very nice. I particularly like the automatic mode. However, the deafult 'distance' threshold of 120 seems to be too large: selecting the yellow foreground color picks points on both the yellow and red lines; selecting the
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In the UK, Damian Ayles was convicted for defecating on his neighbour's doorstep (as well as posting the faeces through a letterbox and smearing it on a car). He was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £350 in compens
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Fonts can have ligatures, which represent several letters as a single glyph ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature ). There are several common ones for letter combinations like "oe" - perhaps this
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As well as general waste and recycling, many (most?) have separate garden-waste and kitchen-waste bins/bags, which get composted or incinerated.
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Not only incorrect How? immediately followed by an equation that disagrees with the statement I'm confused: are you saying that "The rate of change of the momentum of a body equals the force acting on the body" is inconsi
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Of course outliners are better tools for making indented lists and trees than are word processors. But could you explain in what ways Omniflow improves on the many existing outliners, such as those listed here: https://en.wikiped
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Lior Pachter had a blog post about this incident ( The two cultures of mathematics and biology ): https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture... It was previously discussed here: https:&#x2
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> The rules don't work as you would expect: eg messages from "a@b.com" do not match "sender ends with" "b.com". The documentation implies that 'begins with' and 'ends with' only work
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There is an interesting series of blog posts about microwave towers used in HFT entitled "HFT in my backyard" at http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com Several of the individual posts were submitted to HN: https:/&#
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'Selling' and 'Commerical use' are not equivalent. For example, using CAD software to design a product that you subsequently sell would be 'commerical use' of the software, and would be encompassed by the &#x27
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There are various working implementations of this idea, such as quitenet (python) [1] and sonicnet (javascript) [2]. 1. https://github.com/Katee/quietnet 2. https://github.com/borismus/sonicnet.js
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Seems like that is covered by the 'proprietary head' category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Proprietar...
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One newline does nothing, two makes new paragraph. Why is this a problem? Many people advocate starting each sentence on a new line, so that diffs between versions of a document are more intelligible - they'll show you just the sente
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Peer-review is traditionally blinded, so that the identity of the reviewers is kept secret (but the identity of the authors is known to the reviewers). However, a few journals have experimented with other schemes, like open peer review or d
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What you really want to use is an error-correcting code [1]. These have been applied to information storage in DNA [2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_error_correction 2. http://onlinelibrary.wile
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This sort of thing can lead to ridiculous problems. MATLAB R2013b on Mac OS tried to do something similar. However, it sometimes decided that my hostid was the MAC address of my Ethernet interface, and sometimes my wireless interface (in wh
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if academic libraries had never existed, and you were designing a space for scholars to congregate . . . Would you, as at Oxford, build over 120 of them? Yes. At least, in a university that was structured similarly to Oxford. I think an i
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Similarly you can right-click and "Copy as cURL" from the Network pane of Firefox's web developer tools.

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