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Is there somewhere an index of text-only pages?
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Spherical display using persistence of vision
(kickstarter.com)
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9y ago
Research into these rafts: http://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html
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9y ago
Here is a dutch documentry on the same topic https://youtu.be/oOO-pYUl9-w
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A utility to provide services rather than power
(mobile.nytimes.com)
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The pollster who won the election: it’s wonderful to prove the world wrong
(theguardian.com)
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9y ago
Cookware for hiking etc. commonly uses aluminium.
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Topics in Core Mathematics at Graterford Prison
(blogs.ams.org)
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An aside: it can be a good exercise to use the above reasoning to decide when to buy a new car
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10y ago
Another example of the main point in this post is a simpler integral 0 to 2*pi of (sin x)^2 or (cos x)^2. By noting that both integrals will be the same and looking at the integral of their sum. The Gaussian integral in the post is on of th
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The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
(timeshighereducation.com)
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The Rockefeller Family Fund vs. Exxon
(nybooks.com)
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10y ago
The original paper has free access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/slct.201601169/fu...
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10y ago
I don't think they mention time/use to failure. However the quick information I can get on the material: "...we use a two-step molding process to embed a heterogeneous distribution of ferromagnetic and aluminum microparticles
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10y ago
One obvious example is the development of semiconductors and the subsequent technologies.
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Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter
(pnas.org)
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It's a very interesting problem. Look, for example, at the large and provocative studies of Herman and Chomsky [1,2] and trying to remove the bias that exists in mass media, especially the self censorship. There must be many studies of
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The paper is available on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hadi_Ghasemi10/publicat... Original link: www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5449
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10y ago
They have just said that they got lots of good data. Even though the landing failed.
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10y ago
A Google Trends search for "bubble" might also suggest we are not in a bubble. [I find a peak around 2009]
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11y ago
There must be many groups like this these days. There's one large lab I know [1] where they use a pile of statistics, modelling and optimisation to investigate these types of problems. Maybe check out the publications of the group lead
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There must be thousands of people who could use free access to research papers: PhDs and Masters now in industry trying to apply the state of the art, engineers who have worked their way into a subject, concerned citizens who want to read t
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11y ago
I really enjoyed starting this up out of the box. I love that I can export and that I can write in latex. I'm curious if I can set this up as a notebook for scientific simulations including plots etc.
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11y ago
This author and academic gives a wide range of methods. http://www.lynnekelly.com.au/memory-experiments/
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11y ago
Looks like some big mistakes might have been made by the people over at FlyMaids. Despite all this I hope there are people close who are looking out for their wellbeing, and helping them fix the situation.
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Cinemas in Africa
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12y ago
Similar resources are also: The Springer Verlag Encyclopedia of maths: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Main_Page NIST digital library of mathematical functions: http://dlmf.nist.gov/
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I'm reading the biography of Alan Turning by Andrew Hodges. After seeing the film I read all war year chapters and have now gone back to read the Cambridge years. It fills in many gaps about the war years and is just a lot of fun.
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12y ago
This looks really useful. I'm wondering if there is a way to get modern fortran in the fold.
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12y ago
I think it could be this one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...
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