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by rotskoff 12y ago
Critical phenomena, like phase transitions, are essentially defined by fractal like properties. Scale invariance in systems near a phase transition inspired the technique now called renormalization group. It remains a central tool in statis
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by rotskoff 13y ago
I agree, but very little of this work seems exciting. While advances like hardware support for transactional memory and, hopefully, some unified memory support for CPU/GPU operations will have a tremendous impact on the ease with which
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by rotskoff 13y ago
This is actually a heavily criticized animation within the computational biophysics community. Our intuition for physical determinism breaks down at the nanoscale. One major fault of this video is that, at low Reynolds number, there's
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by rotskoff 13y ago
Indeed, in computational chemistry there seems to be two classes of theorists. The first group attempts to simulate a realistic system using high performance computing and achieve, typically, agreement with existing experiments. The second
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by rotskoff 13y ago
Actually, the "algorithms" are usually fairly straight-forward and well documented integrators for Newtonian dynamics, usually some form of Verlet Integration. The most popular and efficient Molecular Dynamics packages are open so
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by rotskoff 13y ago
This probably isn't any different from consuming anything that contains animal products from a country with flexible regulation on farming conditions. The description doesn't strike me as being any different from the conditions de
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by rotskoff 13y ago
Thanks for the summary. Per capita data would help put this in perspective, probably. It's also worth noting that the U.S. likely has a much higher usage rate of Facebook than, for example, Asian countries.
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by rotskoff 13y ago
CMU Average Freshman Retention Rate: 95.5 % Harvard: 98 %
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by rotskoff 13y ago
1 in 3.2 million doesn't really seem that unique to me. Once the sample size is larger by a factor of 10 - 100, I think this will be more valuable.
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by rotskoff 13y ago
The suggestion that Sweden is homogeneous is too common and simply false. I've lived in Stockholm for 6 months and it's a very diverse city. Far more cultural and economic diversity than, say, many Midwestern cities of comparable
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by rotskoff 13y ago
The title is obviously overreaching, but the content of the patent seems to be extremely broad, as well. I won't claim to have read more than the brief description, but it appears that this patents paid, user-specific formatting for an
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Sikorsky Prize Claimed: Human Powered Helicopter(youtube.com)
1 points by rotskoff 13y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 13y ago
I'm sure in due time we'll find that many of the questions asked today are as inane and conditional as the ability to distinguish between cuts of beef and cow organs.
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by rotskoff 14y ago
Parser Combinators are a great example of the advantages of functional programming for this sort of work.
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by rotskoff 14y ago
More than that, high quality academic journals provide a source of well-reviewed, thoroughly edited content. The arXiv, for example, is a great resource, but it can be overwhelming to have to filter through everything. As of yet, we don't h
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by rotskoff 14y ago
The University of Chicago has begun to do this, as well. It's uncommon for UofC to fall into technological trends.
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Understanding Existential Risk: The Singularity and Otherwise(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by rotskoff 14y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 14y ago
I agree, it's not at all clear why one should do any of these things.
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by rotskoff 14y ago
Not anymore.
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by rotskoff 14y ago
I use Tcl for a number of analysis scripts inside some scientific software. Recently, I came across a situation in which I had nested loops: for {set i 0} {$i<$n} {incr i} { # Some comment for {set j 0} {$j<$n}
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by rotskoff 14y ago
The fact that this is inauthentic should be reflected in the title.
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by rotskoff 14y ago
Does anyone know of a good method for determining memory usage within a python application?
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by rotskoff 14y ago
Steve Jobs?
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Do you live in Iowa? Call Senator Charles Grassley.
8 points by rotskoff 14y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 14y ago
There are a good number of pico-second resolved X-ray crystallography papers published. Schotte, the author here, published her first in 2003 on Myoglobin. Many others have used this since the early 2000s. Other protein watching techniques
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Scientists sentenced to prison for Not predicting an earthquake(physicsworld.com)
1 points by rotskoff 14y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 14y ago
Hopefully 13.04 has a new color palette.
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by rotskoff 14y ago
This article fails to specify exactly to what end "it has never mattered." Assuming that the reasoning of the article is correct (the other comments have sufficiently questioned this issue), it still "matters" that the U.S. public education
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by rotskoff 14y ago
What is the timing scheme for the notifications? Do you have any information about its efficacy?
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by rotskoff 14y ago
I also felt that the quality of this article didn't meet the standards I usually expect from The New Yorker. The basic calculus for a New Yorker article usually accounts for a meaningful (often globally-stated and overwrought) thesis. This

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