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1. 91.▲
   by plafl 5y ago

   Do you have any recommendation for a book? I studied classical thermodynamics (and physics) long ago and I consider I have good probability and statistics foundations but never studied statistical mechanics. From my ignorance I cannot under
2. 92.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   I'm Spanish, not Italian, but we also talk quite loud. Maybe all discussions look heated to foreigners.
3. 93.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   Exactly. Testability requires modularity and reproducibility.
4. 94.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   And done: https://plopezadeva.com/helisim.html
5. 95.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   Every time I see something like this I think I should open source my masters thesis in aerospace engineering. It was an helicopter simulator implemented in (ancient, numarray) python. At least it could be an starting point for someone else
6. 96.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   And they will cannibalize your profits, up to 60%, if you start to make significant money. And they can kick you out anytime they want. It's all in the terms and conditions.
7. 97.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   There is a graph of sectors when at least one founder is female but there is no equivalent data for all male founders so I cannot compare
8. 98.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   We must be detached to think clearly but we must care to do something. So it's either we act foolhardy or we do nothing.
9. 99.▲
   by plafl 6y ago

   I love this quote: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". Bjarne Stroustrup.
10. 100.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Well, in Julia you can use good old goto :) using Combinatorics # Initialization numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] primes = [3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17] winners = [] # Loop though the permutations, collecting only prime pai
11. 101.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Europe is a collection of small countries. It's not coincidence that the economic powerhouse of Europe, Germany, is the most populated country. And since this is going quite off topic here is some wild idea: let's keep just a frac
12. 102.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    So you need to make a new language similar enough to preexisting ones but on the other hand it should give you noticeable more power to justify the change. It's a very hard to solve problem.
13. 103.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Well, thank you. Actually it's possible to follow even for someone without CS education like me. I have skimmed over it and actually it seems that although they are confident that the string rewriting system is equivalent to the conjec
14. 104.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I'm glad is in the front page. I own the first version and I'm quite happy and use it massively. I use it to read and annotate papers and technical books. This is for me what keeps it from perfection: - Bigger screen would be grea
15. 105.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I think the art is moved from the proof itself to translating the proof to computer language. Edit: typo
16. 106.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I had to search the original publication to see what kind of computer cluster they used. Here it is in case you are curious: "We ran all three experiments simultaneously on 20 nodes on the Lonestar5 cluster and computing o
17. 107.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I don't share your pessimism. If you think a shorter elegant proof is more desirable, well, I totally agree with you. I think math is more about the proofs than the results. On the other hand I have zero problems trusting a proof check
18. 108.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Both him and the other "millionaire" are book authors. It makes sense: on one hand you increase awareness and recognition of yourself and on the other you get to know what are common questions and doubts of your potential readers
19. 109.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I don't think most people blame USA, it's just "progress". Yesterday at the supermarket I noticed the disproportionate ratio between healthy food (and I count there red meat) and junk food (snacks, sweets,...)
20. 110.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    It certainly looks fabricated. Even if they were transported in open wagons only the front of the train feels all the power of the wind.
21. 111.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Is reading enough to understand the real world without direct experience of the real world? Is there any research that tries to answer this question?
22. 112.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    > This is why I'm convinced places that use proprietary tech are going to fail in the future since the natural forces of competition will cause the internal technology to stagnate. I doubt proprietary tech is going to fade completel
23. 113.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Thank you for the explanation. I cannot count how many times I have wished for something similar in python.
24. 114.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I doubt you can make a joke about blowing an airport on any country regardless of your religion and don't expect a visit of the police. It's a very clear exception to freedom of speech.
25. 115.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    Physicist help needed: From my near null knowledge of quantum mechanics it seems they decrease randomness in phase and amplitude measurement by increasing uncertainty in mirrors position. So, this is interesting because the mirrors are macr
26. 116.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    I don't know why but I was not expecting such an old book to be so richly illustrated and with such a nice typography. Explanations look very clear too.
27. 117.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    The IQ thing blew my mind, although to be honest "low IQ" is not correct since average policemen IQ is slightly above average. Suddenly I'm reminded of Brave New World.
28. 118.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    The same first impression for me. It's great people with more faith than me have pushed forward and actually I'm still waiting to make the jump. It was very similar with python for scientific computing in the beginning. When I wro
29. 119.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    A curious way of thinking. I would say insurance is exactly the opposite of gambling.
30. 120.▲
    by plafl 6y ago

    An analysis of sewer water has detected the virus as early as 15th of January in Barcelona. See for example (in Spanish) https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20200607/481654...