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by petschge 8y ago
This is indeed a helpful thing. And leave a note if you had to rename the variable called "s" in that paper to "x" to work with the 5 equations you pulled of that other paper.
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by petschge 8y ago
If there is one thing I have about HN it is how smug they are about software engineering. The leading reason why scientific software stinks (and a fair fraction does) is not because scientists and software engineeres in that field suck, but
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by petschge 9y ago
That is actually not true for the synchronized european power grid we are talking about here. The time that a clock that runs of the power grid is known as "Netzzeit" (grid time) and there is standards on how far that is allowed t
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by petschge 9y ago
There is many names for it. The problem with "quasirandom" is that is sounds a lot like "pseudorandom". For the special case of points in a plane looking for "Poisson disk sampling" also brings many great resou
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by petschge 9y ago
Covering the plane randomly but without clusters is actually quite useful in simulations. The "random" numbers that do that are often call "low-discrepancy sequence".
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by petschge 11y ago
Actually a problem few people are aware of and are working on is the problem of IO. While there is the old quip of supercomputers being devices to turn CPU bound problems into IO bound problems, it is a real problem to keep a well tuned HPC
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by petschge 11y ago
I know of at least one case where the relevant science community would love to have more identical spacecrafts that are launched about one year apart: Follow ups to the very successfull stereo mission. In 2006 we launched two spacecraft tha