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The Frog That Learned to Fly(ru.nl)
2 points by zeynel1 16y ago|1 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/hard-physics-versus...
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Ask HN: Fine Physics?
3 points by zeynel1 16y ago|1 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
The US system is closely based on the "democracy" as practiced in the city-state Athens. The following quote is from Lords of the Sea: The epic story of the Athenian navy and the birth of democracy; p.95 ---------------- The oar and rowing
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"We live in a world of meanings, not words or sounds. We live in a world of arcs, not points." This is fundamental; line signifies the points; or the line is the meaning of the points; as when you fit a line to points of observations. This
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"more seeds are necessary to ensure reproduction" Looking at other fruits grown in similar climate (mediterranean) http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-416.ht... it seems to me that the number of seeds and aridness of the
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"i don't think the pomegranate has had the same level of effort/attention." Wikipedia says that "The pomegranate is native to the region of Persia and the Himalayan ranges of India, and has been cultivated in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, No
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by zeynel1 16y ago
Very nice. Is it a coincidence that; for various numbers I tried; "social security" and "defense" are always about the same amount?
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by zeynel1 16y ago
http://www.aquaphoenix.com/misc/pomegranate/ http://www.pollinator.com/sd_count.htm
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Ask HN: Do you think nature loves pomegranates more than apples?
1 points by zeynel1 16y ago|6 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"Technology has progressed such that we don't need government protection from ourselves as much any more." Well said. Government agencies pretend to protect the individual but in fact they are bound by the strong insurance industry lobby.
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by zeynel1 16y ago
http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/index.html
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Ask HN: Size of a program as a measure of simplicity?
2 points by zeynel1 16y ago|3 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
Thanks for the link to that article. Very interesting. But I disagree with the language of this sentence; it contradicts the rest of the article: "we can distinguish a world which can be explained by science from one that cannot." "The sent
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"we adopt a view that we call model - dependent realism" I have been writing for years that nature is definitional; http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/true-knowledge/ I am glad to read that Hawking realizes this now. But this is not
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by zeynel1 16y ago
http://nybillofrights.wordpress.com/
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Ask HN: New Yorker Bill of Rights. What do you think?
2 points by zeynel1 16y ago|1 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
I am just reading Lombardo translation. Google does not do well with this famous line: sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt --> "there are tears for things, and our mortal matters touch the" It should be more like: "Tears in t
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by zeynel1 16y ago
Perhaps; but in the case of English-French-English Google translator does pretty well: You'll never find an automatic translation program which spits out exactly the same text after a double translation --> Vous ne trouverez jamais un p
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by zeynel1 16y ago
This is Beta I know but; same sentence translated from English to Latin does not translate back to the same English: Believers of a religion perceive their religion as true knowledge --> Credentes religio religionis sentiunt verae --&#6
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Ask HN: WizeHive Gmail Breakthrough?
2 points by zeynel1 16y ago|0 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
I like DDG but as far as I know I cannot use the bar as I do with chrome; I have to go to the DDG page.
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by zeynel1 16y ago
The authors of this article are "semantic jockeys." First, they define a "theory of everything" as a theory that will unify disparate theories of physics. Then, further down, they define "theory of everything" as "one complete and consisten
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by zeynel1 16y ago
Time Likely To End Within Earth's Lifespan, Say Astrologers There is a 50 per cent chance that time will end within the next 3.7 billion years, according to a new astrological model of the zodiac. Look out into space and the signs are plain
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by zeynel1 16y ago
Well, thanks for the examples; and interesting research as well. I was thinking more about physics. I believe that it takes longer for a student to reach the original research stage in physics.
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"the nouveau riche need to differentiate themselves from the poor, but the old money need to differentiate themselves from the nouveau riche." This is true; but there is a more fundamental reason for the newly rich to spend money: it is fre
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by zeynel1 16y ago
He described generic New York Times article about "science." Academic physicists know that a mention in the first page of the New York Times earns them more professional points in the form of fame than the actual article.
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by zeynel1 16y ago
" the correspondence between everyday physics and (something like) elementary number theory" Can you give an example where he is talking about 'number theory'?
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"Tests asked things like the size of each planet—in other words, to regurgitate facts that one can find in two seconds on Google, which is how I found out what the Kuiper Belt is again." Isn't this true for the entire undergraduate curricul
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by zeynel1 16y ago
A commenter there (Maldoror) exposes the lack of credibility of this article: "On the one hand you say: 'The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood' and then you qualify this with 'We certainly don’t have any

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