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Yes, this is being done and researched now. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201404/neutrinos.cf... http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2165116... http:&#x
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http://crayfis.io/ Use your smartphone camera to create a global network for detecting cosmic ray showers!
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It's much worse than just passive webcams. Some devices which were never meant to be connected to the internet are out there. Stoplights? HVAC Systems? Carwashes? Ice Rinks? POWER PLANTS? Yes! https://www.youtube.com/wa
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If neutrinos are their own anti-particle, they do not get their mass from the higgs field. Most particles have a 'dirac mass' which arises from a coupling with the Higgs Field. An alternative is to have a 'majorana mass'
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> compile time reflection (no more manual serialisation) Are we? I've been hoping but this wasn't on the last C++17 meeting in Kona, Hawaii https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/3q4agc/c17_pr
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ROOT has been making progress with regards to one of the points addressed in the post. Regarding needing a special program to view an HDF5 file, root has developed a JavaScript viewer which can display data and stored plots and graphs. It&#
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Is there a non-login required link? Edit: Here, http://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/
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Paperpile looks especially interesting, especially since I already use google drive to organize all of my documents. But $36 recurring yearly? .. Eh.. It would be nice if the single user mode was free, and the paid model included the collab
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I like that mendeley can rename files according to a format, however it only works when it's setup to use its own local folder (which mirrors the mendeley cloud space).
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This is currently under development .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap
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Is there any serious indication a mesh-network can handle common network traffic and video?
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I don't even have this option. It's comcast or DSL provided by AT&T only. Many apartment complexes have agreements with specific major ISPs.
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I use MCNP very often. I'm curious if there are any goals or plans to transition it to something more maintainable? I once attempted to make my own modification regarding outputting more information but could not grok any of that code
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I'm only three minutes in and I'm already loving this. Thanks for sharing
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The easiest introduction I've seen is the Alice and Bob example in this paper, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v510/n7506/full/nature1... Plus the paper itself was pretty interesting
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Knoxville is still a frustrating state of affairs. Comcast has really set it's place in stone throughout most of the city, with city representatives declaring they are not interested in developing municipal options and that comcast is
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Like every discussion about a windows shell, most of the comments are people saying "Actually I suggest you use cmder/clink/cygwin/msys/gow/powershell/etc". An extensive write up on the features, adva
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> The thing that scares me is anything which eliminates the fissile isotope production as a step. Why do you think we invest in NIF and other fusion projects?
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There are several level of classes at the middle and high school levels. Normally this would be taught in elementary school. But there are some students who do need to be taught this again in high school. There are a whole debate of possibl
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I've recently looked at one of the current "Common Core" textbooks for freshmen math in my sibling's school district in California. It is very different from the style of learning I was accustomed to. The textbooks I had
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I second this, also for teaching yourself there is a solutions manual available which is great for doing the exercises with.
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This widely varies. In Livermore (technically Bay Area) I asked a simple question of whether they sold a compass. The man in the orange apron had no idea what a compass was, and I had to correct his spelling of 'compass' as he sea
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Is there an overview article about the different unix emulators on Windows and how they differ in terms of what they provide, and how they are supposed to be used? Between MSYS, MINGW, Cygwin, Cmder, Clink, Babun, etc. I am just wildly conf
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I've been using PTVS for about two weeks now. Previously I just used Spyder which shipped with the Anaconda distribution. Some things that annoy me: - Reading intellisense python documentation in the mouse over window is really tedious
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Wouldn't existing excel bindings for languages accomplish this? https://www.pyxll.com/ http://xlwings.org/
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As a step 0, people may also be interested in working through Linux From Scratch where you compile your own kernel, set up the file system and create your own Linux distribution.
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Not really. The tamper serves to keep the nuclear material together longer through inward inertia. Additionally tampers are usually neutron reflectors which also reduce the time needed to burn all of the material into energy. An analogy I&#
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There is an edited and expanded edition with an introduction Richard Rhodes available in hard copy http://www.amazon.com/Los-Alamos-Primer-Lectures-Atomic/dp/0... For the fusion bomb side, recently a book has been
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U-235 contains 92 protons and 235 protons + neutrons. As a "code word" for Uranium-235 they took the last digit from 92 and the last digit from 235 and referred to it as 2+5 = 25 Same with plutonium-239 which has 94 protons and 23
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This has been empirically shown http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/walking-vs-sitting-...
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