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by tfgg 12y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look, but it seems like I'd have to change the format of the files, right? Unfortunately that's not really feasible, since their format is determined by the scientific codes I use -- that's why I was
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by tfgg 12y ago
I like this. I've often had a similar issue in computational physics when handling lots of different calculation input/output files with variations in parameters. I've tended to automatically generate directory hierarchies,
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by tfgg 13y ago
My UK experience on a science course was that any mentioned books were highly optional and all course material was available for free on the internal network: lecture notes, slides and question sheets. Any reading material was only a sugges
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by tfgg 13y ago
Das ist Nümberwang!
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by tfgg 13y ago
You'd be surprised. I've been in a village in rural India where there were open sewers at the sides of the unpaved roads and there was still a massive mobile phone mast just next to it. Someone told me that 800 million people in I
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by tfgg 13y ago
The irony of saying someone copied anything from Ebaumsworld.
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by tfgg 13y ago
While I do think that alternative fusion paths should be better funded, cranks aside, I don't think that it's the fault of ITER that it's the most promising and best developed and so the best funded one. The entire field is r
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by tfgg 13y ago
It's honestly not an issue I've ever seen come up... though I have wondered about how the extent of wear and tear on the games over time is going to affect their business model.
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by tfgg 13y ago
In Oxford there's http://www.thirstymeeples.co.uk/ . It's really good for finding new games, as they've got roaming board game specialists that will recommend a new game, help you get set up and teach you the
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by tfgg 13y ago
There was a great comment recently about "social" game developers being like heroin dealers who don't use their own product and look down on their customers, and "traditional" game developers being like cannabis de
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by tfgg 13y ago
I've thought about the same for Settlers of Catan, which I think is too random if you use dice, disrupting people's ability to do more than basic strategy. I know there exist "dice" packs of cards, which contain the corr
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by tfgg 13y ago
Exactly, my main thought when companies are being bullied for their lawful behaviour is if parliament wanted to stop corporations using a specific tax loophole, it could pass a law against it. Why hasn't it? Not that it's always e
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by tfgg 13y ago
That doesn't mean it doesn't set up a good incentive, similar to the use of disused land going back to the Peasants Revolt and Diggers and concepts like adverse possession. While Parliament might not have explicitly legalised it,
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by tfgg 13y ago
"had their homes invaded and damaged, their possessions stolen (and often sold for drugs)" Sounds like burglary and criminal damage, not squatting, is the issue here. The problem is that those are hard to prove and it's easie
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by tfgg 13y ago
So people should freeze on the streets so property owners can keep their buildings empty? Fuck that, squatting laws are to make sure property is being used and not hoarded. Whether squatting is right is independent of any criminal activity
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by tfgg 13y ago
It's an incredible experience when the bit flips in your brain and you start understanding recursion and top-down design. I don't use ML any more, but it's definitely affected my coding and problem solving style :) Also, I on
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by tfgg 13y ago
It may be turning around now, but applicants for compsci at Cambridge were apparently getting pretty dire by 2006, and this formed a significant part of the motivation for the Raspberry Pi ( http://www.raspberrypi.org/about )
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by tfgg 13y ago
I think if they were serious about supporting science, they'd be giving out medium-sized early researcher grants (maybe £/$10k-100k), but then they'd actually have to think about who to fund and take on the high risk involved
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by tfgg 13y ago
I agreed with a lot of what the article said , but then the author seems to go full-TED-bullshit-buzzword towards the end with little evidence or citation and falls into the pseudo-intellectual knowledge-lite trap that he's criticising
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by tfgg 13y ago
Along these lines, does anyone know the best way to boot from the downloaded zip file in VirtualBox? I'm currently trying to convert the contents to a bootable .iso, but I'm not sure if that'll work.
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by tfgg 13y ago
It's latex notation and should render like http://arachnoid.com/latex/?equ=p%5E%5Cmu%20%3D%20m%20u%5E%5... . It's a bit obtuse to be using it on a non-physics/maths forum. mu is being used as an index (m
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by tfgg 13y ago
You're right, the colour of materials is much more complex than just the available atomic transitions. The electronic states are changed and spread out by being bonded to other atoms and you get bulk collective properties like polariza
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by tfgg 13y ago
It's not in the FDA's remit to be regulating research, that would be an infringement of academic freedom, it can however regulate commercial entities using that research to sell devices to the general population, who don't ha
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by tfgg 13y ago
I think this is worth noting - especially in the UK, where PhDs are 3-4 years on top of a 3-4 year undergraduate. I think this shorter PhD length means that there's less opportunity to be exploited as cheap labour, and more opportunity
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Analog And Digital Codes In The Brain(technologyreview.com)
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by tfgg 13y ago
I once had someone sign up for an electronic voicemail service with my email address. I was getting all their voicemail, including once about 50 in the space of an afternoon from a clearly distressed client of theirs. It took a very long em
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by tfgg 13y ago
All projects that were definitely not under GDS' management, more likely Crapita.
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by tfgg 13y ago
It's a fairly normal problem when you start running. I definitely found that I had to slow my pace down significantly from what I naturally wanted to run at before I could make 5k/10k distances.
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by tfgg 13y ago
Make the UAVs refuel by eating insects in the air?
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by tfgg 13y ago
All (afaik) UK research councils now have an Open Access mandate. It's a bit of a mess, though, since they keep changing how/who's going to pay for it, and what level of Open Access they mandate. Practically, for physicists,

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