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   Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf of Mexico(nola.com)

   30 points by sz 16y ago|1 comments
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   by sz 16y ago

   getting things right the first time around is much more of a practical matter than you may at first realize.
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   by sz 16y ago

   I reported this in a submission 71 days ago and it ended up [dead] :(
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   by sz 16y ago

   I'm guessing indicators of "fantastically good" at undergrad level are things like winning the Putnam and original research contributions right? I don't suppose physics would be any better?
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   by sz 16y ago

   As a math major that makes me worry a little bit. How tiny is the fraction?
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   by sz 16y ago

   That's actually one of the selling points for me. Something that elegant inside the case seems very unlikely to have questionable engineering behind it. My old Dell, on the other hand...
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   by sz 16y ago

   You have "skill" genius where someone can play the piano, chess etc extremely well. You also have "creative" genius which is people like Einstein who makes creative new leaps. The first kind of genius seems to be genetical while the second
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   by sz 16y ago

   1) There are some awesome Feynman interviews on the web. 2) My brain will refuse to learn anything unless I can understand it from first principles. I spend a long time trying to get an intuitive understanding of a problem before starting
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   by sz 16y ago

   Yep. Haskell is a perfect counterexample (everything is inferred).
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    Stephen Fry: What I Wish I'd Known When I Was 18(vimeo.com)

    3 points by sz 16y ago|0 comments
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    by sz 16y ago

    Quod erat demonstrandum does not mean "and thus I have proven beyond all shadow of a doubt that I am right"; it means, roughly, "that which was to be demonstrated". The usage of QED is correct here.
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    by sz 16y ago

    Sounds like the Internet of Things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
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    by sz 16y ago

    Tux!
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    by sz 16y ago

    CAESAR. http://www.northwestern.edu/caesar/ Everything sucks about it. Everything.
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    by sz 16y ago

    Mentioned in the article, and applicable to more than poker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_(poker)
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    by sz 16y ago

    Less ridiculous and more persuasive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c
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    Clown elected to Brazilian Congress(google.com)

    4 points by sz 16y ago|2 comments
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    by sz 16y ago

    Fake, if I'm not mistaken. I think the guy did a series of videos like this.
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    by sz 16y ago

    Can you add a link to your original posting?
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    by sz 16y ago

    Now I have to try this.
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    by sz 16y ago

    Humanity as a single, very big piece of multithreaded software: Minds are processes, reality is shared memory. Crashes happen under suitably bad conditions (e.g. WWII). I don't see how this per se offers any real insight. You can apply th
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    by sz 16y ago

    Again, I'm a college student. Re-buying stuff I threw out based on a naive criterion like that would be terrible with my limited resources. An inventory would help me better decide what to throw out and keep me organized. If someone built
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    by sz 16y ago

    I think the author meant better in the sense of morally superior, not happy.
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    by sz 16y ago

    I've been wanting to start an inventory of every item I own with the goal of going minimalist but it's so daunting I haven't started yet. And I'm a college student! (Maybe there's room for an app here?)
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    by sz 16y ago

    Nice. I love URL interfaces (phras.in is another good one). Definitely useful for tutoring over IM. Font looks a bit cartoonish though... http://texify.com/?$\int_a^b\left(\frac{\partial%20L}{\parti...
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    by sz 16y ago

    I just got it, and it's huge. Bigger than most dictionaries. The articles are great. It's a useful resource to look up something you hear a reference to but haven't seen before, or to get more cultural exposure around something you're stu
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    by sz 16y ago

    Not exactly original, but well written. And the choice of words in the title is irrelevant! It doesn't even make sense to argue about the "power" of a word, without a useful definition of power. So don't! The discussion so far falls squar
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    by sz 16y ago

    I think it's a joke.
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    by sz 16y ago

    At Northwestern they actually warned chemistry majors to stay away from Asian journals when doing research, and to stick with reputable ones. Apparently it's not uncommon for these papers to be, if not outright dishonest, misleading about
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    Context-aware Computing: Intel Paints the Future of Devices(anandtech.com)

    1 points by sz 16y ago|0 comments