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"Gregory was notoriously argumentative and after a quarrel with a fellow academic, Professor Hamilton, he smote him to the ground with his stick. Summoned to court he was found guilty of assault and fined £100 (a considerable amount in
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Cdecl 3.0: An English-C/C++ translator for type declarations and casts(dev.to)
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by scentoni 10y ago
It's not speculation, it's right here in Google's notification: https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/852321786687606784/photo...
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The post Google used as justification is http://americablog.com/2014/02/ny-city-state-pension-plans-l...
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I saw a presentation at Stanford around 2000 of the science and engineering behind a watch-like device that would measure glucose levels in the interstitial fluid extracted from the skin with an electric zap. I think it is the GlucoWatch, w
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And to find what percentile your individual income is at: http://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/
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See the Agat, a Soviet Apple II clone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_(computer)#Reception https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-11/1984_11_BYT...
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Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BK-tree
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Flu makes you gregarious [pdf](indiana.edu)
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Digital picture converted to string art patterns.
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Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are Finno-Ugric languages, part of the Uralic language family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
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by scentoni 10y ago
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive is one of the most frightening developments I've heard of in genetic engineering.
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Decaying Russian Nuclear Lighthouses (2009)(gizmodo.com)
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The optimal way of storing carbon is as coal.
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Ohm's Law is not relevant for superconductors and is not fundamental. Ohm's Law is a simple phenomenological relationship that is a useful approximation for many everyday situations where V/I is approximately constant. cf ht
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The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress was a confederation of sovereign states. When that failed, the sovereign states ceded their sovereignty to form a new Federal government with a constitution that s
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There is always a prime between p and p*6/5 for p≥25(projecteuclid.org)
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fn+Backspace = forward delete
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My favorite English history what-ifs are: 1. What if Catherine of Aragon had borne an heir to Henry VIII? England might have remained Catholic and been spared a few bloody wars over religion and royal succession. Or maybe the English Civil
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Certainly part of the explanation of the paradox is that a great deal of what elites work on is (intentionally or not) finding ways to automate lower-skilled folks out of a job.
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That's interesting: "C3 angiosperms evolved more than 50 times independently into C4 plants (Muhaidat et al., 2007" http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/155/1/56
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For clarification: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spurn#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spur#Verb
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Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found?(space.com)
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The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has a beautiful CM-1 on display: http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/...
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Antimatter has positive mass. Negative mass is a hypothetical construct that does not appear to exist.
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I've played with this a bit, it was fun.
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Interestingly, the environment around each gold atom in the beta phase is an icosahedron of titanium atoms (Fig 2B).
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Since it's 58% gold by weight, just the raw materials cost is going to be high. I expect for most applications it will be used as a thin coating over titanium or some other material. I wonder if it's a good choice for jewelry. Pha
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Bernoulli number(en.wikipedia.org)
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