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   by pdm55 9y ago

   One legal term that has always stumped me is the meaning of "beyond reasonable doubt". It's not a phrase that we use in everyday speech, so its meaning doesn't come readily to mind. Apparently, it means something less th
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   Take a walk on the wild-side around West End, Brisbane, where I live. Factory-city has become apartment city: https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-27.4845284,152.9998144,3a,6... What you can see there is all the construct
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   I found Goodsell's images of the crowded intracellular environment in E. coli, useful visualisations in developing a model of a living cellular process, namely, transcription control. Transcription is the first step in gene expression:
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   Some info I gained from when I last read some of Buffett's annual letters: (1) He said he likes the insurance business (Gen RE, Geico) as it gives him money to use; (2) He doesn't like to use that money to buy shares, he likes to
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   Thanks. Got a few useful references by using your link as a jumping-off point.
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   >> Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbooks. I agree. I was recently in China lecturing. I took about 100 textbooks on a portable hard drive. It was magic having immediate access to that knowledge. By way of comp
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   https://www.manictime.com/
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   "The Atom Soldier" from US Army film archives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5NNjzhn__w Atomic explosions filmed at 3000 frames/sec, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166w
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   by pdm55 9y ago

   Thanks. Yes, methane is simply C. Also, I found this: https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/chemical/structure which can convert a chemical name to SMILES notation. The Wikipedia entry for SMILES has lots of links to software uti
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    Any source for SMILES of molecules? My methane is crazy. https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    So your tutoring is all done through your videos, or separate online individualised instruction (1-to-1, or 1-to-many?), or through visits to your tutees for in-person sessions, or tutees come to you, ...? I am a tutor here in Australia. I
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    Thanks, good show. Another one I like is http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/ . See Newton's cannon etc.
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    I use Paint as my scanner connection. So simple, it just works.
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    "in order to search the whole document you have to put the cursor at the start" Yep, but we all know to do this. Better to keep it with this quirk, than remove this indispensable software. Notepad and Paint are so simple and work
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    I learn a lot from Barabar Oakley's book "A Mind for Numbers". http://barbaraoakley.com/ I wrote about some of my take-home messages from that book here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Da
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    Jack Charles (Australian aboriginal actor) recently discussed his life. He is an avid reader, an actor, a drug addict, he slept in toilets at night, shared any money he earned or stole, was imprisoned 22 times, has been finally housed late
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    I lived off handouts for a year while I writing up my research results. Finished it and got a job through a friend. When I got my first paycheck, I went to an ATM and took out a $100. I was so disorientated about actually having some money
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    An interesting book, written by an interesting group, is "Who is Fourier". They seem to be mainly undergraduates in Japan who learn and teach each other new languages. They took on a similar task to explain Fourier Transforms to e
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    some insights https://www.webofstories.com/story/search?q=math&max=20&p=1&...
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    Thanks for this. It's always great to hear personal experiences. I read an interview of a female architect still living in Syria. If anyone has a source, I would appreciate it. If I recall correctly, she said what follows. I hope I am
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    by pdm55 9y ago

    Reports suggesting North Korea may be source of ransomware attack: "Kaspersky and Symantec both said on Monday that technical details within an early version of the WannaCry code are similar to code used in a 2015 backdoor created by t
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    Thx, couldn't find what I saw previously, but I found a few other leads. Didn't realize HN's search allowed one to order search results by date - that was helpful to find recent links.
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    Ask HN: Health AI?

    1 points by pdm55 10y ago|2 comments
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    Scientific article examining the downward trend in Australia's cyclone numbers : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asl2.502/full Long‐term changes in Australian tropical cyclone numbers &quot
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    MOOCs have been a godsend to me, allowing me to revise long-dormant knowledge. In the last 4 years, I have done courses in Statistics, Chemistry and JavaScript. It's a buzz to learn things better, the second time around. I completed th
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    What about synthetic biology projects such as Yeast 2.0, aiming "to build the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome".
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    I subscribe to Kale Davis's newsletter http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ It seems to catch what I have found, plus quite a few more top items. I prefer Kale's selection to YCombinator's own selection of top po
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    Good points. His position must have been tenuous anyway as it was a requirement of Cambridge that all Fellows become ordained Anglican priests. Newton only avoided this by special exemption from Charles II and it is not likely that he could
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    Plus there is the Newton Project, http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1 . One time I looked his alchemy writings were in a code that he had concocted. I recall he had astronomical (astrological) terms for chem
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    by pdm55 10y ago

    I would be happy with touch (or voice responsive) screens in stores telling me where to look. Surely a cheaper, maybe, more useful option. I mean all the info is there in the auto checkout, why can't there be such screens scattered th