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by sn41 7y ago
IIRC, the modern formulation of Maxwell's equations is due to Oliver Heaviside. He formulated the laws concisely using vector calculus. We probably need to look at Heaviside as well to get the full historical picture.
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by sn41 7y ago
India was testing only 18 per million, until even 5 days back [1]. In comparison, South Korea did about 6900 tests per million. The true infection figures for India may become clearer only in the coming weeks. [1] https://www.msn
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by sn41 7y ago
On a related note, the Mesoamericans seemed to have great technology by 1000-500 BC. About 3 years back, I was on the nearby site of Monte Albán. It is an incredible place. It's humbling to know that around 400 BC, Zapotecs could engin
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by sn41 7y ago
Perhaps appropriate: The famous poem by Sara Teasdale, about a different context, which also lent its name to a short story by Ray Bradbury: There will come soft rains -------------------------- There will come soft rains and the smell of t
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by sn41 7y ago
The greatest text games I have played are Curses! and Anchorhead. Both are immersive and vast. Anchorhead is genuinely scary. There are some pointless puzzles and timed puzzles, but overall, truly worth trying out.
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by sn41 7y ago
Thanks... will check it out.
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by sn41 7y ago
I have always wanted to read science fiction which focuses on the psychological problems of prolonged solitude in ultra-cramped quarters. This should be an interesting thing to creatively think about. The only story I know which sort of dea
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by sn41 7y ago
I don't really see any disconnect between CS and math.
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by sn41 7y ago
This is in fact the logically meaningful thing to do. All must be monotone decreasing in set inclusion. Other similar definitions are that min of an empty set is infinity and max of an empty set is minus infinity. Min is monotone decreasing
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by sn41 7y ago
Actually I wonder whether Karl Popper is considered very important by philosophers of science. I have had arguments with people who claim that Feyerabend has a better "approach" to science. On the other hand, practicing scientists
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by sn41 7y ago
Is there any estimate of how many years the recession is going to last?
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by sn41 7y ago
These are high school students in India. Many of them are from rural backgrounds and do not have personal email accounts. From our experience, the forms are many times filled up by employees at cyber cafes who fill their own email addresse
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by sn41 7y ago
One of the useful applications of trigram-based analysis I have done is the following: for a large web-based application form where about 200000 online applications were made, we had to filter out the dummy applications - often, people woul
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by sn41 7y ago
Jose Mujica almost fits the decription. BTW I don't think he was very good overall.
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by sn41 7y ago
I am concerned that the Dreamliner is also a potentially unsafe aircraft, as has been suggested often. Please see the last bullet point on page 5. Is anyone aware of this exact issue?
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by sn41 7y ago
nope... I know that some castes like Lingayats in Karnataka and Pisharody in Kerala bury all their dead. Probably there maybe more such castes in other parts of India.
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by sn41 7y ago
Thank you for that information. It makes much more sense now why these zombie banks are allowed to remain around.
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by sn41 7y ago
Somehow, Semantic Web and associated ideas does not seem to have panned out in practice. I wonder whether HTML is the ASCII of the web world - clearly just intended as a first step and supposed to be obsolete over time, but proving to be a
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by sn41 7y ago
Are you criticising Bill Wadge in particular? His Ph. D thesis led to one of the widely studied notions in descriptive set theory [1]. He switched to computer science and made a lot of contributions to CS and AI [2] If you are talking about
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by sn41 7y ago
When someone comes to me these days for knowledge about basic Unix/MacOS/Linux CLI tools, I direct them to the GNU core utilities documentation - it is very nicely organised according to task. I also demonstrate how CLI can do rea
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by sn41 7y ago
No...unfortunately the details are confidential. But I wish there was a way to exchange best practices within the government agencies so that this sort of mechanism becomes widespread.
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by sn41 7y ago
No, you just have to overcome inertia. There are legal considerations for multiple uploads - who decides which document is valid etc. But once the policy is clearly vetted and publicly stated, the courts are usually fine with it.
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by sn41 7y ago
Designing more forgiving interfaces. I work in the public sector in India. Usually forms here are phrased in threatening terms - you can submit any document only once, and there is a threat of perjury for just uploading the wrong document e
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by sn41 7y ago
Exorbitant "speaking fees" are a questionable practice in the US. The same goes for "book deals" which are too rosy to be later borne out by sales.
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by sn41 7y ago
I guess instead of "natural", if you say "inherently biological" or "circadian" it conveys the sense better. I think the author intends to refer to the natural cycles inherent within the human body without the
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by sn41 7y ago
If you aren't a high profile target, you may not be worthy of being targeted specifically. Of course, as in the Ashley Madison and Equifax cases, you might be compromised along with thousands of others. Zero days are expensive for indi
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by sn41 7y ago
Most large companies depend on government contracts for a substantial part of their business. The government is after all the single biggest consumer in many markets. This, and revolving doors between businesses and government, probably mea
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by sn41 7y ago
A potential fall-out: the travel patterns and occupants of all cars in San Diego is stored in perpetuity, later to be hacked into, so that many common citizens can be later compromised. To the perpetual excuse that I don't have anythi
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by sn41 7y ago
I feel valuing humanity, not productivity, could reduce inequality still further. Are disabled ("differently" abled) people to be starved because they are not productive enough?
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by sn41 7y ago
Mahatma Gandhi's "Nai Talim" (New Education) [1] placed prominent importance on working with hands. When I first visited the US, I was really impressed by the number of people who undertook DIY projects, and knew woodworking

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