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1681.
by messe 9y ago
> It's unclear to me why one might want to use quantum blockchain-based money when there are reasonable proposals for blockchain-free quantum money, e.g. [1]. I haven't had a chance to read through your paper in full yet, but
1682.
by messe 9y ago
UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and almost all other English speaking countries except for the US and Canada, I believe.
1683.
by messe 9y ago
Not only that, but at a glance they're near identical.
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by messe 9y ago
I was (slightly) incorrect, there appears to be some QFT in a course on High Energy Physics. And I don't disagree with you. I think the split between the theorists in the maths department, and the experimentalists in the physics depa
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by messe 9y ago
Yup. As it happens a not insignificant amount of my lecturers are from Post-Soviet states, including the course director.
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by messe 9y ago
Apologies in advance for the long post, but it's been a lazy Friday and I've nothing better to do. I'm in Ireland, in Trinity College Dublin. The way the course (Theoretical Physics) as a whole is taught is rather odd compare
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by messe 9y ago
That's actually about as readable as the full J interpreter source code. https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
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by messe 9y ago
That depends on your university, I'm not in the US so all of my modules are focused on what would be called my "major" (which is Theoretical Physics, at least that's the name of the course). "Mechanics" is a s
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by messe 9y ago
It's quite important in mathematics and reasonably important in physics. Almost all of my fellow students in my undergraduate physics labs use LaTeX to typeset their reports, and a quick browse of arxiv should show that it's domin
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by messe 9y ago
It's worth noting as well that LuaTeX is the adopted successor to pdfTeX.
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by messe 9y ago
Why do people feel the need to override the default scrolling?
1692.
by messe 10y ago
Look up the x32 ABI for Linux. It's exactly that.
1693.
by messe 10y ago
What's wrong with: >>> import numpy as np >>> m = np.array([[0,1,0],[0,0,1],[1,0,0]]) >>> v = np.array([2,3,1]) >>> np.linalg.solve(m,v) array([ 1., 2., 3.]) No need to tr
1694.
by messe 10y ago
I have `jk` mapped to that in my vimrc. It's far nicer than ESC.
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by messe 10y ago
> Welcome to rocket science. Not all of this is 100% safe Yes, but the Shuttle was far worse than most in that regard. It's abort modes were limited at best and crazy/non-existent at worst.
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by messe 10y ago
> Go's poor type system is a bigger issue. This. I think Julia[1] had the right idea about multiple dispatch. [1]: http://julialang.org
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by messe 10y ago
Highly unlikely, the mass of the probes will be on the order of several grams at most, and, depending on the trajectory relative to the planet, steering could require an equally impractical amount of fuel as slowing down would.
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by messe 10y ago
> "The proposal will significantly increase the power of foreign governments over the Internet,” warned a letter signed by several Republican senators, including former Presidential hopeful, Ted Cruz. For those of us in foreign (to
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by messe 10y ago
There's a saying that a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. It's dual is that a comathematician is a device for turning cotheorems into ffee.
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by messe 10y ago
It likely depends on your country's, state's or local area's laws.
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by messe 10y ago
Not in the slightest.
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by messe 10y ago
Is it? What else could retard mean in this context?
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by messe 10y ago
> If you would like to know why it's offensive to some people, I could educate you. In this context? I'll agree that recede might be a better choice in this case, but as an undergrad in physics I hear the word retard being used
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by messe 10y ago
"Method and apparatus for synthesizing patterns" https://www.google.com/patents/EP1177529B1?cl=en
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by messe 10y ago
> Who says it's only valid for |x| < 1? Anybody who understands the definition of convergent series. > That series isn't just a cute bit of trivia, it is the basis for signed integer mathematics in your CPU. "True&qu
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by messe 11y ago
That still doesn't mean that `uint8_t` will be defined as `char`.
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by messe 11y ago
Well perhaps a better example might be System Management Mode on Intel CPUs, which easily allows for undetectable backdoors with constant access to the same physical memory as anything else running on the CPU.
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by messe 11y ago
> Actually if you read the comments from the developers in that thread they won't support it until there is documentation on the firmware "blobs" you need to have in order to even boot. How exactly is that different to an