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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
Apparently it's also known as the Greek citron, but I don't see it under that name either.
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
Is this an example of a Big Noun Page?
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
OK, I'll assume they meant that when they really meant US Eastern time and I'll be six hours early.
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
I am a slightly more complicated man. I see Game of Life in the title, I upvote the post. I also upvote this comment.
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
The US is sort of intermediate here. In a few cases state borders are time zones borders, but in practice they're determined by which big city people are most integrated with and that often oesn't line up well with state borders.
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
My theory on why people use "xST" is that the word "standard" time sounds like it is the fancy official time. When people say EST and mean EDT I'm tempted to just show up an hour late, if it's a meeting I don&#
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
Me too. Who are these people whose kids' sleep schedules are regular enough that this makes it noticeably worse? (There was one year where the time change in March did actually have a noticeable effect on my kid... and a few days late
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
I live in Atlanta (western edge of US Eastern time) and permanent DST sounds horrible - the sun would rise at 8:45 in early January. Honestly I'd prefer we be on permanent standard time. Call it permanent Central Daylight Time if you
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
Update: episode 188 just dropped.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
Still in production. The most recent episode was released 2025-12-31, and it looks like he's lately been putting them out every two months. (I subscribe to the Patreon; there are bonus episodes interspersed between the regular episod
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
I've seen this recommended a few times here, and I've listened since the beginning. I'd recommend it. But it would be hard to catch up after nearly 14 years and 187 episodes (probably averaging an hour?) - I wonder if there
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
Frankly I'm surprised Randall Munroe hasn't done this. (I assume he hasn't because nobody has linked to it.)
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
Would be nice to have a link to the music itself, both recording and sheet music. This is the E minor prelude - I happened to recognize it by key but not by number. See e.g. the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
The short version of "I am not interested in reading something that you could not be bothered to actually write" is "ai;dr"
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
I remember coming across this when I was studying for similar exams in a math PhD program at another university. It helped me realize that I didn't have to know everything in order to pass. (And I didn't! And I passed.) We also
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
From Leningradsky station you can go to St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad); unsurprisingly, that train arrives at Moskovsky station.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
Exactly. Wiggling feels more like a second-derivative thing to me but that's discussed too - Chebyshev polynomials max out the second derivative as well as the first.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
There is a book of exercises, which I've heard of but not looked at myself, titled "Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics". I don't know if that will help you but it might be worth a look.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
This is Terry Tao's first book for a popular audience, due out in October 2026.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
I think what likely happens here is that everyone just starts calling 10^(-5) days (= 0.864 current seconds) a "second". (And then there's confusion over which second people mean, analogous to what happens now with tons.)
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
LL Bean used to have a similar return policy but people started abusing it; now you only have a year.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
And writing random digits has about a one-in-three chance of being a hit.
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by madcaptenor 8mo ago
England still stands in for the UK sometimes.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
People have mentioned "can't print on Tuesdays", which reminds me of an error that occurred with a Linux PDF viewer at the math department at Berkeley: "Oct 2: Warning: Due to a known bug, the default Linux document vie
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
and this is coming from a URL on the home.cern domain
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
You are absolutely right! The current state of ChatGPT was not in my training data.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
I would imagine links can be hallucinated because the original URLs in the training data get broken up into tokens - so it's not hard to come up with a URL that has the right format (say https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
One tree I'm surprised not to see here - the tree that Newton sat under that supposedly hit him on the head with an apple.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
That wouldn't work because pasta settles, so a given weight doesn't correspond directly to a given volume.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
Of course, if the mountains are not flat then the altitude is then a function of the azimuth...

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