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by ubasu 7y ago
It's not about curvature, it's moment of inertia that stops it from bending, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275112
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Women in Science (2006)(philip.greenspun.com)
3 points by ubasu 7y ago|0 comments
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Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes(nytimes.com)
1 points by ubasu 7y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 7y ago
Here's my rant of the day: The meme that the GPL is "less free" sounds very Orwellian. What it really means is that I cannot freely use someone else's creation without restriction, and that I have to respect the wishes o
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Book of Ingenious Devices(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by ubasu 7y ago|0 comments
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China cracks cheap lithium production in electric car breakthrough(scmp.com)
8 points by ubasu 7y ago|1 comments
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Why every cyclist needs a pool noodle(qz.com)
47 points by ubasu 7y ago|29 comments
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Imposter Facebook account used to drum up support for caravan(buzzfeednews.com)
2 points by ubasu 8y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 8y ago
"Resonance occurs when two sources of excitation fall completely in sync, and reinforce one another endlessly." This is incorrect, even according to the wikipedia article it links to. Resonance occurs when the excitation frequency
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Euclid – A more accurate measuring cup(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ubasu 9y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 9y ago
In my experience, the method described here works very well in practice: http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~rn/distance2ellipse.pdf (this is linked to from the stackoverflow post) Finding the closest point for an ellipsoid is
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Lack of Oxford Comma Costs Company Millions(nytimes.com)
12 points by ubasu 10y ago|6 comments
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Notes on High Output Management(charles.io)
2 points by ubasu 10y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 11y ago
Never mind, found them all here: http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/available-models/
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by ubasu 11y ago
I couldn't identify all the car company logos. Specifically, in 1-based (row, column) format: (1,3), (3,2), (3,6), (4,4), (4,6), (4,7), (5,9) Can people please chime in with the correct identifications? (There seems to be a logo behin
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Ex-Drug Smuggler Turned Data Miner Reclaims Field He Created(bloomberg.com)
30 points by ubasu 11y ago|3 comments
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Now Lyft drivers need not own a car: Lyft and GM start short-term rental program(latimes.com)
4 points by ubasu 11y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 11y ago
You seem to be conflating "numerical computing" with machine learning. However, numerical computing typically involves solving PDEs via e.g. finite elements or finite differences, or solving large systems of linear equations assoc
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by ubasu 11y ago
You can read Sokal's various commentaries on this topic. His point was that many philosophers tried to make grandiose statements about science and mathematics that did not make sense at all. The philosophers were making statements base
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Silicon Valley is still getting it wrong on income inequality(dailykos.com)
3 points by ubasu 11y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 11y ago
Please keep in mind that the book by Bruno Latour referenced here (Science in Action) and another of his articles was lampooned in the Sokal Affair because Latour was confused about relativity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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How I fell for an IRS scam(narrative.ly)
1 points by ubasu 11y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 11y ago
Modern compilers should, but there is a lot of legacy code.
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by ubasu 11y ago
I don't disagree that badly-written scientific code exists (both in academia and in the industry), but I want to point out a couple of things for people who have only a software engineering background. 1. Keep in mind that most scienti
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What Do Professional Apple Farmers Think of People Who Pick Apples for Fun?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by ubasu 11y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 11y ago
I made my first offer to a full-time employee, who could add necessary medical expertise to the team. She chose us over an existing offer and gave notice to her current employer. What happened to this employee? Just curious...
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New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain(science.psu.edu)
64 points by ubasu 11y ago|8 comments
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The Dustbin of Geography(bigthink.com)
2 points by ubasu 11y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 11y ago
See the concrete canoe competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe http://www.asce.org/concrete-canoe-photo-gallery/
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by ubasu 11y ago
Here's Krugman's commentary on this discussion: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/freshwaters-wron...

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