noncovalence

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by noncovalence 6d ago
_We_ are still traveling forwards in time. If you followed a cloud of antiparticles backwards in time along its direction of travel, then you would see entropy decrease yes, though regular particles would do the same if we followed them bac
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by noncovalence 24d ago
Nitpick, but that font really needs a slashed zero.
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by noncovalence 28d ago
Always love seeing a link to wikipedia.org on the front page. Pretty much guaranteed to make me go "oh, neat " :)
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by noncovalence 2mo ago
> My problem with having many different choices that will actually have consequences for the game play is that I’m always worried I didn’t choose the best path through the game. But my main issue with having a lot of options, is that I w
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by noncovalence 2mo ago
It's been a while since I've had to do this so I'd be very happy to hear if the process has become smoother since - does it no longer give you a big warning that you've got a dangerous unpacked extension installed every
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by noncovalence 2mo ago
In addition to the advantage of explicitly specified capabilities mentioned by others, I'd say a userscript is also much more durable and low-maintenance than a Chrome extension. This is coming from someone who's written an extens
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by noncovalence 5mo ago
Very cool, I'll definitely be playing around with this some more! Two questions: - How difficult would it be to add many-valued functions to this? It would be really nice to be able to get the full set of [pi/2, pi/2] + n[2 p
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First Lego League will end in 2027(education.lego.com)
2 points by noncovalence 6mo ago|0 comments
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by noncovalence 7mo ago
There's a story by a guy who did something similar when he was in 2nd grade, and successfully pitched an aardvark plush to a toy company! It always makes me smile whenever it pops up again. https://twitter-thread.com/t&
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by noncovalence 9mo ago
This problem is usually known as regression dilution, discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_dilution
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Ask HN: Cheap smartwatch recommendations while waiting for the new Pebble?
1 points by noncovalence 1y ago|1 comments
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Damned Yellow Composite(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by noncovalence 1y ago|0 comments
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by noncovalence 1y ago
If I understood the OP correctly, then the broadcasting would only be illegal in the US.
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by noncovalence 2y ago
As others have pointed out, tkinter is just a wrapper around Tk, so the best way to learn more about it is to learn about Tk. The documentation for Tk [1] is fairly comprehensive: for example, the algorithm used by the `pack` command that y
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by noncovalence 2y ago
A better way to organise and find papers I've looked at before. For example, being able to ask an LLM "what was that paper again that tried using X to solve Y but ran into some issue" which I vaguely remember skimming a month
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by noncovalence 3y ago
There's a few projects that can package a python environment into a single executable (the main tradeoff is you end up including a copy of python with every single executable if you have lots of tools) - when I wanted it to create an i
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by noncovalence 3y ago
Missing my favourite zero-word paper: "Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?" https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12599
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Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question? (2022)(philpapers.org)
2 points by noncovalence 3y ago|1 comments
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Sandringham Time(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by noncovalence 3y ago|0 comments
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by noncovalence 3y ago
Of all things, rowing. It's a way to force myself to keep a consistent exercise routine because others depend on me to show up for each session, and given that my club has active members who are decades older than myself, I expect to c
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by noncovalence 3y ago
I only gained an appreciation for ruler and compass constructions early in secondary school, at age 7 I'm not sure I could fully understand the beauty of deriving a huge system from axioms. For making Euclid interesting to children, I
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Novel approach to Room Temperature Superconductivity problem (2020)(arxiv.org)
2 points by noncovalence 3y ago|0 comments
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by noncovalence 3y ago
To my surprise I've been unable to find an email client that meets three requirements: - Works on Windows and Android - Unified inbox for multiple addresses - Does not take multiple seconds to load an email So I would happily welcome a
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by noncovalence 3y ago
Something about the way the text got more and more glitched while keeping the rhythm of the sentences intact made me want to keep reading. I think it managed to create the perfect amount of entropy that makes it feel like there could be a m
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by noncovalence 4y ago
For anyone who enjoyed that one, I can also recommend Public Service Broadcasting's The Race for Space [1] which does something similar. [1] https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/album/the-rac...
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by noncovalence 4y ago
I've found writing a temporary comment can be particularly useful when working with Unicode. For example, something similar to //insert a unicode dot between each character in the string, and convert the numbers to subscript
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by noncovalence 4y ago
In the context of the difference between D# and Eb, 19-TET is very interesting to play around with. It adds an extra black key between every pair of white keys, and most songs intended for 12-TET still work fine, as long as you play sharps
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Toxic – Falsifying Scientific Data [video](youtube.com)
1 points by noncovalence 4y ago|0 comments
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9 Alternative Tunings Not for Guitar (2016)(sevish.com)
2 points by noncovalence 5y ago|0 comments