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by jeffwass 11y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. Journals like Nature and Science are usually considered the top (at least for physics, which I studied). Getting even one article published in these is a big deal. As a grad student you've got it m
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by jeffwass 11y ago
So after four years of comments on Hacker News I've finally posted my first negative-voted comment. Am I right in interpreting this to mean it's perfectly acceptable for the grandparent to write something insulting by saying : &qu
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by jeffwass 11y ago
So basically your comment is a "holier than thou" critique of Jewish Kashrut laws, which concludes with you complaining about others having "holier than thou" attitudes. And ironically you've posted on a Friday even
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by jeffwass 11y ago
More of the latter. And how to really think of derivatives beyond just the slope of a function. Or seeing an integral as a continuous sum of infinitesimals instead of just the area under a curve (which is only one way of visualising). And w
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Calculus didn't really 'click' for me until I had to apply it in my college physics classes. That's when it all came together. Physics felt like the word problems you'd see in elementary school math. Ie, taking the
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by jeffwass 11y ago
My first thought on seeing the image in the article was "do the black holes form the EURion constellation?"
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It's entirely about tax avoidance, thats the whole point of using a Delaware Corp and why they're so popular. The fact they're standard is irrelevant to the parent's claim. They're only standard because nobody wants
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>Not only does GitLab copy GitHub, it does so by relying on a lot of Open Source sofware written by GitHub and/or GitHub employees. That seems like a bizarre complaint, considering git itself is FOSS, initially written by Linus, a
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by jeffwass 11y ago
What do you listen to? Do you choose specific songs to match your target cadence?
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I posted this a few days ago but got no answers. What's the best way to 'read' the xkcd Time storyline? I saw an animated gif someone made a long time ago but it was hard to follow requiring pausing on frames to read text.
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For me the concept got old really quickly in 'Thing Explainer' to point that while browsing in a book shop I went from quite interested in buying it to absolutely zero interest in the span of a couple minutes. The constraint of
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Missed this in the article, but how are you actually turning on/off the lights after this controller sends a "turn on" signal? Is this basically right : You have some separate receiver that the light or other accessory plugs
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What's the best way to 'read' that xkcd storyline?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I don't see how that solves the issue, as it just moves (w/ optionality) the cutoff from 1st Sep back a few months. Meaning if everybody opted in, the spring kids would become the youngest in class, instead of late summer kids. E
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by jeffwass 11y ago
How did you find your sleep patterns on days you missed breakfast? And what about your general stress levels? I heard a sleep doctor give a lecture awhile ago who repeated the advice of eating a hearty breakfast, primarily as a way to encou
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The Longitude Act : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_Act Short answer : over 114 years from 1714, Britain sought and paid rewards for accurate measures of longitude. Resulting of course in the invention of &#x
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Was it the Vostok? (it's spherical at least, not sure of the wood) : http://i.imgur.com/XBcLxta.jpg
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One more: "A ‘newbie’, in Haskell, is someone who hasn’t yet implemented a compiler. They’ve only written a monad tutorial"
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Makes sense, but the actual crowd-funding link specifically shows a breadboard with wires for the comparison (in the details section). It does seem fairly complicated to map out the jumper rails, and especially since the rails run the lengt
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by jeffwass 11y ago
"Revolutionary electronic prototyping board designed for ease of use and flexibility. No jumper wires required!" So the inconvenience of using wires with a breadboard is replaced by the need to solder all components?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The 2pi comes from the usual method of using hbar, instead of h. Where hbar = h/2pi, and is the Planck constant adjusted to use radians instead of cycles. This is much more natural when working with frequencies instead of using cycles.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The more interesting question is what wikileaks would do if they received some embarrassing leaks related to Ecuador. Would they choose not release the leaks, given Ecuador's provision of embassy asylum to Assange?
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What form was it in? Was it just a cacao bean?
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Lead is a metal, graphene is a zero band-gap semiconductor. Very different electronic behaviour.
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Are you talking about the bonus 'fruit'? That was he one thing I complained most about with the Atari PacMan. I don't think I ever noticed the flickering ghosts specifically, or even how different the bird layout was vs the a
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The other thing is that it gives the customer protection. Ie, customer has some sort of legal recourse (I think) if they've been mis-sold insurance from a salesperson, who was required to be licensed and show basic competency and ethic
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Insurance plans are complicated. To ensure the customer knows all his/her options and the differences between the plans requires some understanding and basic training. If I flip your concern around, why do you think it would be appropr
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Just saw the Hilbert curve video, absolutely awesome. Very well done, amazing animations, and I learned some things to boot! Should come with a warning - once you start watching, don't expect to get anything else done for the next 17 m
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Why? From the other side of the desk, wouldn't you be impressed if you had a candidate come in for another interview, and they explicitly tell you that you had interviewed them previously and they understood their weaknesses at that ti
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Is anybody tracking how Sam Altman's bet on the bubble is doing these days? Ie, what's the latest valuation of his three propositions? Though it's still way too early to make any conclusions, as there's still four more

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