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by nurbl 6y ago
X-ray lightsources are improving too, not just multiplying. They are an important tool for many areas of science, not just physics but chemistry, biology and pharmaceutics to name a few. Whether there's any "new physics" left
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by nurbl 7y ago
This may actually be the single most innovative thing about it. I think they've managed to boil down games making to a limited set of functional pieces that fit together in a huge number of ways, and then spent years honing an UI that
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by nurbl 7y ago
Hard to say, but the programming parts are fairly general and low level so the ideas should transfer pretty well. E.g. there are numeric values, mathematical operations, logic gates, etc. It can perhaps be compared with LabVIEW. My main wor
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by nurbl 7y ago
It is very much a spiritual successor. I spent quite a lot of time with the creative mode in LBP too, and Dreams really builds further on that. Much of the functionality was there in LBP in a simpler form. Dreams is much more flexible and
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by nurbl 7y ago
There's programming involved, but of the graphical connect-the-boxes kind that can be done without text input.
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by nurbl 7y ago
I've been using Dreams since the beta over a year ago. I'm mostly interested in 3D sculpting and animation, but I've played around with most of the tools. Here's my impression. It basically attempts to boil down video ga
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by nurbl 9y ago
The article specifically mentions precision, but not accuracy.
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by nurbl 9y ago
Scipy+numpy made it possible for me to mostly stop using the various weird, usually proprietary and often highly specialized data analysis applications that are entrenched in the scientific community, and work with a nice, general purpose p
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by nurbl 10y ago
I've found http://www.aseprite.org/ to be a reasonable alternative to DPaint. The UI is quite different, but on the other hand it has lots of more "modern" features, like layers. Source code available under G
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by nurbl 12y ago
It depends on the way the crystal is cut, usually they are optimized to have a maximum around room temperature so that effects from variations are minimized. The effects might partly be compensated by measuring the temperature and applying
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by nurbl 12y ago
Particle physics in general and CERN in particular is a pretty extreme case, most physics is still done in much smaller teams - although I suppose practically never by lone individuals.
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by nurbl 12y ago
I've had several cases where a drawing I want to edit is only available as PDF. There are various ways to convert between the formats (e.g. inkscape) but so far I haven't found one that always works.
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by nurbl 13y ago
As a (somewhat rusty) pixel artist I'd say it is easier to draw lighting from, say, straight above, or from the right, than from some arbitrary angle. But it still takes practice and a good eye, certainly.
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by nurbl 13y ago
I'd personally prefer a simple CLI for the tool over a GUI, so I'd certainly be interested. Anyway, as long as you're not doing a competing KS or something, I can't see any fundamental ethical problems with releasing it.
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by nurbl 13y ago
I did my PhD in such a group and was able to put up with Igor Pro for a couple of years, before going over to python+matplotlib. Igor does contain some nice ideas, and can certainly produce great plots, but the scripting language is so arca
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by nurbl 15y ago
A few favourites from my (rooted) SGS2: Epistle - a simple text editor which transparently syncs to Dropbox. YATA! - my favorite timer app Chordbot - really cool for trying out music ideas d7 reader - No nonsense google reader client UPnPla
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by nurbl 15y ago
I agree with those titles, and would add Diaspora which I just finished. Truly mindblowing stuff, although it may be a bit too abstract and technical for some.
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by nurbl 16y ago
Agreed. I actually liked his previous book "The Terror" even more, although I read it last year. A great book for cooling off on a hot summer day... Simmons is probably the most versatile writer I know.
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by nurbl 16y ago
If you haven't already, you might also want to check out Sage ( http://www.sagemath.org/ ) It uses python to "glue" together other free math tools (e.g. Maxima) into a unified system with a nice interface.