merraksh

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by merraksh 9y ago
There's "tic", "toe", but not "tac". I guess we need a "even less strict" option.
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Tesco school trips: what the fork?(blog.foodassembly.com)
5 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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What Happens When Galaxies Collide?(space.com)
1 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
Indeed. Unless we prove P=NP, technology will only help re-define what "practically solvable" problems are.
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by merraksh 9y ago
The USSR had about 12 million types of goods. If you cross them over about 1000 possible locations, that gives you 12 billion variables, which according to Cosma would correspond to an optimization problem that would take a thousand years
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Parallelizing a Python Function for the Extremely Lazy(tdhopper.com)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels(npr.org)
928 points by merraksh 9y ago|495 comments
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RFID chip found on new Intel processor (in German)(heise.de)
25 points by merraksh 9y ago|2 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
Reminded me of another phenomenon, the one occurring to metronomes on the same surface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8
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by merraksh 9y ago
At eighteen I went away to college. [...] I had saved enough from a summer's work to pay the fees of the first term, I guess college wasn't that expensive back then (or summer jobs were paying a lot).
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SAS Peddles Open Source FUD(thomaswdinsmore.com)
4 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
Original Register link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider...
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by merraksh 9y ago
Good point, done. In my defense, I did post a link to the previous discussion below :-)
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by merraksh 9y ago
Previous discussion has this top comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652159 ) by cant_kant, which I believe is worth posting here: Sensible doctors do not believe drug company marketing. I get large amounts of a
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by merraksh 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649195
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by merraksh 9y ago
2000 / 60 seconds * 4 cylinders ~ 133 detonations/second.
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by merraksh 9y ago
True, but it's a long- vs. short-term cash problem. The new system would cost a lot in the first few years, but less on the long term as MS licenses won't have to be paid.
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The beauty of LaTeX(nitens.org)
3 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
[...] They studied professional programmers with an average of 7 years' experience and found that the ratio of initial coding time between the best and worst programmers was about 20 to 1 I thought the perceived idea about the 10x de
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by merraksh 9y ago
But driving requires focusing on the road, hence taking neurons away from thinking.
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by merraksh 9y ago
Yes, I did write most of the text, but without his guidance on the research and on what to write about more in depth, there would have been no article. He's been the best advisor. Don't you dare say bad things about him! :-)
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by merraksh 9y ago
I think it would be a little easier to accept (and probably easy to implement) if, in addition to title search, authors and keywords were also searchable. A search for my PhD advisor's last name results in 0 papers, though I uploaded a
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by merraksh 9y ago
The article seems to point to these two as the main reasons why fruit juice is not as good as fruit: 1) when you make juice, you leave some of the most wholesome parts of the fruit behind. The skin on an apple, the seeds in raspberries and
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by merraksh 9y ago
How to reproduce: 1) log in 2) search your favorite author 3) verify there are zero results in normal search and n>0 in advanced search (as the normal search is on paper titles only) 4) proceed to advanced search, find monthly subscripti
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The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over(diggitmagazine.com)
195 points by merraksh 9y ago|114 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
A less important result for mankind, but still by accident: the microwave oven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery
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Italian Antitrust fines TicketOne and others for 1.7m euro(translate.google.com)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
Also, a good incentive to hire people that have no kids or chronic conditions.
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Man starts small pro-EU rally, now thousands show up every week across Europe(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by merraksh 10y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 10y ago
My favourite Sierpinski triangle page: http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm It shows many ways of constructing one, including links to Pascal's triangle.

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