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by sampo 5y ago
References 104 and 105 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Testing_a...
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> Ukraine is not of vital interested to the West. Is distinguished professor Mearscheimer perhaps forgetting that Ukraine is of vital interest to the Ukrainians?
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> Russia has a point-of-view on Eastern Europe that shouldn't be ignored. Eastern Europe (and now especially Ukraine) has a point-of-view on Russia that you seem to be ignoring.
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> I don't think we tried to push for Ukraine as neutral state, like Finland, did we? Does EU/NATO really NEED Ukraine to join them? Yours is an imperialistic attitude. The question is not, how could EU or US or NATO or Russia p
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by sampo 5y ago
I've read that Strassen's algorithm, and fast matrix multiplication algorithms in general, accumulate too much numerical errors to be useful with single precision (f32) floats. That's why they were not in use before year 2000
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> the young people talking about socialism almost universally mean the Nordic style social democracies It's just plain wrong to call us Nordics socialist. We have free market economies just like all Western countries. https:/&
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> Only New Zealand in the 19th century. In New Zealand women could vote, but not run. Only in 1919 were women eligible to be elected to the House of Representatives. And only in 1941 were women eligible to be appointed to the Upper House
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Here's a 2022 The Atlantic article suggesting the same: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/putin-ukra... And a 2014 blog post also suggesting the same: https://skibinsky.co
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Young Sheldon in 2017: "Statistically always punting on 4th down makes no sense." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZffa_Z_Cxs#t=17s
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Basketball now uses SportVU tracking data. A camera system records the game, and computer vision algorithms extract the locations of the players, and the ball, at high space and time resolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Moneyball (book 2003, movie 2011) describes how Oakland Athletes build their baseball team in 2002 based on statistical analysis of player performance. Then around 2008-2009, Houston Rockets, and Golden State Warriors (Oakland) started to a
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by sampo 5y ago
> Latex is extremely powerful but reading the raw source of a text is a pain. For the kind of text that you'd use Markdown for, i.e. text that is mostly just text and not math heavy, LaTeX should be almost as readable as Markdown. F
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> Why are you pissed at them for? Just like some car drivers feel entitled to "own" the road and feel that if they hit a cyclist, it was the cyclist at fault, also some cyclists feel entitled to "own" the shared pedes
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Maybe Eric S. Raymond's advice from 21 years ago is no longer true in today's internet: > Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life f
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by sampo 5y ago
Another thing Paul Graham wrote: > Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. http:/&#x2
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> multiple dispatch means you don't need to give your functions awful names (looking at you cgbtrf) and instead can just name them for what they do. Fortran has ad-hoc polymorphism, and 63 characters maximum length for names. These
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> Apparently the "intent" attribute was added in FORTRAN 2003. It was added in Fortran 90.
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The conventional, idiomatic style is to mark the `intent` of your function/subroutine arguments. Then the compiler can check that you don't attempt to mutate input variables, or read the output variables. pure subroutine mea
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> <strong>loop1</strong>: do i = 1, 10 Those "strong" tags are, obviously, a mistake in the webpage html code, and not part of Fortran syntax.
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The standards of the era were not enough, for the differential geometry required for general relativity.
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This kind of procedural array-based numerical code, would be easier to rewrite in Fortran than in Rust. Fortran syntax is closer to the original Python syntax, than Rust is. And Fortran is easier to learn than Rust. But the author already k
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> The formulas describe the complex behavior of a liquid when it meets a boundary Since Reynolds (1842–1912) proposed Reynolds averaging, there have been numerical approximations for turbulent flow. This paper proposes one more, perhaps
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> There's a whole field to simulate PDEs that you can't solve exactly. There are whole fields to simulate one particular PDE: Computational fluid mechanics for the Navier-Stokes equation. Computational electromagnetics for Maxw
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The harmonic motion equation is an ordinary differential equation (ODE), not partial differential equation (PDE).
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Original video (year 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfUSNzc0Xk 2021 design, with a balloon for depth control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83cSg3wohU
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> But in attempting to draw an equivalence between the physical flow of liquids and the emotional “flow” of human beings, Losada had simply lifted the numbers that Lorenz used in 1963 to explain his method in the abstract, numbers used m
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> Math and software prefer lon, lat. I had always thought math prefers lat, lon ...well not lat (which is the altitude angle) but polar angle. But anyway, this order: polar, azimuth. Turns out I have been getting all my spherical coordin
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The Norwegian groceries delivery company Oda, in their app you can sort each category (e.g. hard cheeses) view for price per item, or price per kg.
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> something like 10 privately funded American universities make more scientific breakthroughs You are mistaking privately owned universities for privately funded. Scientists in privately owned American universities still mostly apply and
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> horse dewormer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ivermectin You are not being truthful, labeling ivermectin only a "horse dewormer". Ivermectin is used as an antiparasitic drug also for people. And not only as a dewormer, but also

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