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by sieste 6y ago
... in mice.
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by sieste 6y ago
> “Regular patterns of drought and precipitation have been found to coincide with cycles of sunspot activity” > which can be simplified to: > “Regular patterns of drought and precipitation coincide with cycles of sunspot activity”
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by sieste 6y ago
"My God, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President's judgment. He might never push the button."
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by sieste 6y ago
See also the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm_for_linear_s...
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Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations (2009)(journals.aps.org)
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by sieste 6y ago
Do you think having high quality headphones makes this easier?
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by sieste 6y ago
"You did better than 23% of people." What a polite way of saying "You suck at this!".
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by sieste 6y ago
I get that. It's just that for an excel-trapolation 2x outside the observed range based on only 2 data points, 2084 is a strangely precise estimate. I find it hard to take this seriously.
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by sieste 6y ago
That plot half way down the page where they fit a straight line through 2 points and predict to be able to map human brains by 2084 made me laugh.
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by sieste 6y ago
In the fluxbox WM you could achieve something like this using keymodes http://fluxbox-wiki.org/Keymodes.html
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by sieste 6y ago
From the abstract: > Quantification starts with sum and product rules that express combination and partition [...] measure theory formalizes addition, and probability theory formalizes inference in terms of proportions. Quantum theory re
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The Symmetrical Foundation of Measure, Probability, and Quantum Theories(doi.org)
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by sieste 6y ago
Imagine every scientist started to acknowledge in their papers all the free software tools they used for their research. In my field it has become more common to cite R packages in papers, but we could go further and give a shout out to the
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by sieste 6y ago
I tried to go through this a few years ago. The time commitment is huge, especially if you really want to understand all steps in detail. In the end I lost interest because it turned into a mindless command-copying exercise for me. My only
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Improving spatial skills in children and teens(parentingscience.com)
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by sieste 6y ago
> These results encouraged the researchers to analyse some frozen samples between January 2018 and December 2019, with the shocking results of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genome in March 2019, before any notification of COVID-19 cases in
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by sieste 6y ago
That there is such a thing as deterministic chaos (aka the butterfly effect), ie. infinitesimal perturbations can quickly produce macroscopic changes, and all the philosophical implications that result from it. That despite the apparent com
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Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig(en.m.wikiquote.org)
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The most bombed country in history(mobile.twitter.com)
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by sieste 6y ago
From the book > I'm a programmer who uses stenography in my everyday work. Coworkers often come to my desk to chat or ask questions, not knowing that I use a steno machine to program and type. As I start typing in front of them, the
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Art of chording(artofchording.com)
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by sieste 6y ago
Whatever and however much I feel like on any given day. Letting go of trying to take notes consistently (in style, topics, format, amount ...) was extremely liberating.
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by sieste 6y ago
Twitter banning prominent far right users forces them to mass migrate to parler which ultimately makes parler less attractive to the wider community. On the other hand parler might only be popular because twitter started banning these peopl
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by sieste 6y ago
He co-authored this great paper on the mathematics of juggling http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/ron/papers/94_01a_juggling.pdf
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by sieste 6y ago
I tried it, but it wouldn't allow me to read HN, so I disabled it again :)
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by sieste 6y ago
The R code looks so much cleaner and readable! Is that just me being a bit more familiar with R/dplyr than julia? Or could the julia code be written more elegantly than that? I mean all those .@(_, => :) constructs make julia look r
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Giant star spots likely cause of Betelgeuse dimming(phys.org)
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by sieste 6y ago
I recommend mapping jk to esc in insert mode (instead of jj), so you remain on the same line if you accidentally use it in normal mode.
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by sieste 6y ago
"Big Bang" by Simon Singh