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by whynotqat 3y ago
In Modernist Cuisine, Myrvhold et al advocate for a sous vide chili oil. Roast the chilis and other ingredients at about 250 in the oven, then sous vide at 158. Never made it myself, and it's not intended to be authentic Chinese chili
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by whynotqat 3y ago
A similar story took place with checkers in the mid 20th century. People discovered that Senegalese players, who played a similar but not identical game, had transferable skills and knowledge that allowed them to instantly compete with top
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by whynotqat 5y ago
The sequence of mutations leading to Omicron is a one-off. Presumably, if there were a thousand variants with the same N mutations as Omicron, you'd see ratios like the ones you describe, but there's only one Omicron. The previous
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by whynotqat 9y ago
As one might guess, there is a lot wrong with this list even within there stated goals. My examples are drawn from mathematics, since that's what I know. They appear to use the journal to classify category, which doesn't work very
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by whynotqat 10y ago
Certainly some that were active in the last 50 years, though it's hard to think of any that were trained in that time-frame: Gelfand and Ian MacDonald are the first pair that come to mind, though Gelfand had some great mentors and Macd
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by whynotqat 10y ago
Since its proposal, the lonely runner conjecture has been an enticing open math problem accessible to anyone. Using polyhedral techniques, Matthias Beck (a prominent combinatorialist) claims a proof.
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Every runner is sometimes lonely(arxiv.org)
2 points by whynotqat 10y ago|1 comments