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by ubasu 11y ago
According to the Wikipedia entry [1] and other pages mentioned in another comment [2], the statue was found with a fragment of a left hand holding an apple, and a right hand with a draped sash. This was taken to understand that the statue r
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by ubasu 11y ago
I would recommend reading these books by one Ruby Payne which explore such differences in detail: A framework for understanding poverty: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1929229488/ Crossing the Tracks for Lo
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by ubasu 11y ago
Here's how you can apply this interpretation of matrix multiplication: Think of the columns of the matrix A as basis vectors of a coordinate system represented in global coordinates, and the vector v as the components of a vector in th
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Subprime student loans(salon.com)
1 points by ubasu 12y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 12y ago
Just curious: what software do you use for you FEA simulations?
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by ubasu 12y ago
I am referring to the first line of Bengali text. I have viewed it in Acrobat Reader, epdfview, Chrome's PDF Reader, Firefox's pdf reader and my iPhone's pdf reader. The problems are that joint-letter ligatures are not used,
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by ubasu 12y ago
It has to do with how the text is rendered. For example, if you see the Bengali text on page 3 of this PDF: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04252-khanda-ta-review.pdf it is unreadable and incorrect Bengali. ;-)
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by ubasu 12y ago
Native Bengali here. The ligature used for the last letter of "haTaat" (suddenly) is not the same as the last ligature in "aditya" - the latter doesn't have the circle at the top. More generally, using the vowel s
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by ubasu 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602740 Article is from 2014
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by ubasu 12y ago
The conductor is the musician, and the orchestra is his instrument, so yes.
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by ubasu 12y ago
It is the subtext that is anti-Hindu here (i.e. you have to read between the lines). Doniger seems to be forwarding the narrative that Hindus are violent Others, driven by their holy text. This is similar to the established(?) narrative tha
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by ubasu 12y ago
Are there alternate versions of the Mahabharat where Krishna does not go to the Kauravas with a peace treaty and where the war happens before such a peace effort? To whoever downvoted this: note that I was trying to highlight the logical fa
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by ubasu 12y ago
While such generic calls to decorum are always welcome, the specific issue here is that Doniger seems to be selectively and willfully misinterpreting the text to advance her own agenda. Most prominently, she declaims the Gita as a warlike-t
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by ubasu 12y ago
Wendy Doniger is known to have an interpretation of Hindu texts that is hostile to traditional understanding of the texts [1]. Some specific examples in this particular article are: 1. The Bhagvad Gita is commonly understood to be a discuss
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Dan Ha’s body likely found in bay, family says(sfgate.com)
13 points by ubasu 12y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 12y ago
Just a curious onlooker - don't mean to criticize. A lot of this seems to be recreating stuff that Fortran 95/2003 does natively, but I guess this is for C/C++ people?
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Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?(stackoverflow.com)
10 points by ubasu 12y ago|0 comments
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by ubasu 12y ago
The best way to tell is to check if the postage says "Pre-sorted Mail" or if they actually spent money on first-class postage to send it. ;-)
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by ubasu 12y ago
Seems like an interesting way to cast a structural shape. Possibly, it transfers stresses efficiently because it follows the deformed configuration of the fabric.
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by ubasu 12y ago
This has nothing to do with yield strength, which is relevant only where the materials "yields" or plastifies. This is just linear elastic beam bending theory - you have two different beam cross sections in either case with two di
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by ubasu 12y ago
You can always roll up the slice into a cylinder with the crust on the straight edge, and that also is an example of the theorem. It says nothing about the mechanics of the problem, i.e. how much will the pizza deform. It is quite possible
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by ubasu 12y ago
The author's point that "curvature imputes stiffness" conflates several different and distinct mechanisms, and offers an inadequate explanation. For the examples of the pizza, the leaf, and the corrugated sheets, the stiffnes
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by ubasu 12y ago
If you use sympy, I would strongly recommend using ipython qtconsole: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/interactive/qtconsole.html One of the big advantages is that you can print your expressions using LaTeX:
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De-mist-ifying the San Francisco Fog(newsbound.com)
3 points by ubasu 12y ago|0 comments
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The Leveraxe(vipukirves.fi)
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Faking Sick for a Living(inkfish.fieldofscience.com)
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by ubasu 13y ago
Allow me to bring up Lua, which has a nice way of handling multiple return values: http://www.lua.org/pil/5.1.html
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5-minute primer on VC Term Sheets(slideshare.net)
2 points by ubasu 13y ago|0 comments
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I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling(pando.com)
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SFO reveals missteps after Asiana crash(sfgate.com)
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