merraksh

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AF 447: Inquiry concludes it was the crew's fault (in French)(lefigaro.fr)
1 points by merraksh 15y ago|1 comments
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by merraksh 15y ago
Any field of science should be talked about by someone who has a deep knowledge of that field. Unless he knows Evolutionary Psychology, Anthropology, and Economics very well, making generic comments about all these fields isn't a good way t
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by merraksh 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "others" here, but most drugs have side effects. AFAIK, until all of them have been sorted out, using an un-FDA-checked drug could heal your skin OR give, for instance, anaphylactic shock to all, some, or just
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by merraksh 15y ago
"Committees" are in place to check whether these results are sound. Letting people use their "freedom" do to themselves as instructed by a post on the Singularity Hub may lead to some of them die, for instance of some unexpected allergy.
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by merraksh 15y ago
One too many question marks, imho. Shouldn't it be: "Brian said, "[l]et's go."."?
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by merraksh 15y ago
But hasn't the PR firm lost their face too? If the PR had an intent (expose FB's tactics), I wonder if they could have done it differently.
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by merraksh 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504672
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by merraksh 16y ago
I just wanted to make matters more precise. I don't want to beat your comment (I'm an academician too), but let me comment on another example you give: For example, Nature: http://www.nature.com/ajg/open_access_faqs.html Open Access is
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by merraksh 16y ago
When you author a journal paper, not only do you not earn any money, but you pay the publisher several thousands USD in fees. This is not always the case. In Applied Maths and in many fields of Engineering, there are no publishing fees.
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by merraksh 16y ago
The article seems to mention a heuristic method the bumblebees use to improve their path, which consists of changing subpaths. A heuristic doesn't necessarily give the optimal solution, while there are methods that do give the optimum. An e
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Are gas prices really that high?(flowingdata.com)
2 points by merraksh 16y ago|0 comments
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Using Google Maps to highlight cities producing top scientific articles(leydesdorff.net)
1 points by merraksh 16y ago|0 comments
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Symmetrical portraits: Julian Wolkenstein(julianwolkenstein.com)
1 points by merraksh 16y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
The OP's post and all the examples in the comments are good candidates for The Daily WTF ( http://thedailywtf.com ).
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Vivian Maier: Amazing unknown street photographer(monoscope.com)
22 points by merraksh 16y ago|4 comments
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Lybia uprising - coverage by Al Jazeera(english.aljazeera.net)
2 points by merraksh 16y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
Isn't it rather an extra 42%? If Apple takes 30% of the one dollar I used to make, in order to make that dollar again I'll have to charge $1.42, as its 30% is $.42.
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by merraksh 16y ago
This just does not happen in the male-oriented world of science in which, traditionally, dogs are keen to dine on dogs rather than share the bone between them, so to speak. That sounded a little sexist to me, though I wonder if she meant
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by merraksh 16y ago
A bad (IMHO) example of infographic: http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Typefaces-of-the-world_... Stylish, but hardly readable and not very informative.
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What would Neptune look like if it orbited Earth?(bradblogspeed.com)
2 points by merraksh 16y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
Good point. I used the URL (which was missing the "dubious") to fill in the title.
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Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough(foxnews.com)
12 points by merraksh 16y ago|7 comments
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Fuel poverty higher in the UK than in Siberia(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by merraksh 16y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
Is the not-so-impeccable title " Impecabble grammar" there on purpose? </grammar-nazi>
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by merraksh 16y ago
I doubt this could be an efficient way to compute a shortest path. All of this amounts to a (very inefficient) parallel implementation of an algorithm that checks whether the Bellman-Ford conditions apply to a suboptimal path, as the path i
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Vargas Llosa's speech at the Swedish Academy(nobelprize.org)
2 points by merraksh 16y ago|1 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
What he classifies as "lying qualifiers" seem to me often just used to soften what follows the "but", and has become the standard: we are so much used to this that the impression it would make without these "softeners" would be of a rude re
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by merraksh 16y ago
Given that, in most overseas flights, sufficient voltage is available at every seat to power in-flight entertainment, I wonder if it's an easier engineering problem to have a 15-20 volt outlet instead (though I'm not sure if there's enough
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20/10/2010, World Statistics Day(unstats.un.org)
2 points by merraksh 16y ago|1 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
There should be options for that too, then. Windows allows you to turn your computer off after the update is complete. I'm not sure how long the updates last, but I'd say, in general, not the entire night.

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