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by c517402 9y ago
Maybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.
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by c517402 9y ago
A product has its components fabricated in east Asia, is assembled in east Asia, sold in Europe, and the profits from the sale are held in Europe. Somehow you consider this “illegally offshoring money”. Somehow you think the US government
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by c517402 9y ago
Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.
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by c517402 9y ago
Perhaps you meant “convergent function ratios.” The first example equations are parabolas (divergent).
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by c517402 9y ago
From the first sentence of the paper: “I explore functions f that can be written as a sum f=g1+g2 where g1 and g2 are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both strongly resembling the original function f.” Note, not f but
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by c517402 9y ago
My friend stopped graduate school at a MS and didn’t pursue a PhD because all the American grad students were forced to take teaching assistantships while the foreign grad students were given research assistantships.
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by c517402 9y ago
The Apple STOCKS app on my iPhone is showing updates as I watch and says Yahoo! at the bottom. So, it seems Yahoo is still providing fairly real-time stock quotes via some means.
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by c517402 9y ago
xkcd of land mammal biomass https://xkcd.com/1338/
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by c517402 9y ago
I wonder if that protruding sensor block can be used for touch ID somehow?
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by c517402 9y ago
Arizona doesn't participate in daylight savings time. And, we really don't need to be saving any daylight in Arizona.
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by c517402 9y ago
Sadly, this is the way many federal laws come to be. Agencies and Bureaus in the executive branch propose rules(laws) and if congress doesn't specifically vote them down, they become federal statutes. I'm glad to see congress actu
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by c517402 9y ago
My paraphrase of page two with a direct quote: He possibly did stuff important to us and "other nations controlled by insane dictators." We should consider watching him and protecting him.
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by c517402 9y ago
If you liked this essay, you might also like the book by Marcel Berger, Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Higher Geometry. A quote from the cover: "The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers rea
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by c517402 9y ago
And yet, it doesn't taste like chicken. :)
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ATHENA laser weapon 'kills' 5 'outlaws'(foxnews.com)
1 points by c517402 9y ago|0 comments
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by c517402 9y ago
In the video it looks like she was still able to use the phone, the angle is such that you can't see the crack while she is scrolling. Are there any other videos where she uses the phone and you can see the crack? Or, do her comments,
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by c517402 9y ago
What does a federal judge have to do to be removed?
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by c517402 9y ago
My Dad told me that the house he grew up in was ordered from Sears. They had to build a foundation to set it on, but everything else was shipped to them from Sears and they assembled it. That was about 90 years ago. I wonder if Amazon will
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by c517402 9y ago
New symmetries for elliptic curves. It seems like these pariah groups could be used to speed up cracking elliptic curve cryptography. Does anyone have an informed opinion?
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Pariah moonshine(nature.com)
1 points by c517402 9y ago|1 comments
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by c517402 9y ago
Does anyone know if these pariah groups could make elliptic curve cryptography easier to crack?
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'Moonshine' sheds light on elliptic curves(m.phys.org)
3 points by c517402 9y ago|1 comments
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by c517402 9y ago
In "Exploring Black Holes" by Taylor & Wheeler, project A is titled 'Global Positioning System', where they say locating your position accurately depends crucially on General Relativity.
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by c517402 9y ago
This seems like an overweight person suing Coca-Cola and Krispy Kreme when they get diabetes.
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by c517402 9y ago
One of the problems with making the theory compatible with General Relativity is that a hotter object weighs more than the same cooler object.
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by c517402 9y ago
This generation was raised eating and drinking from plastic and has a higher level of BPA in their blood than any previous generation. But, maybe that is just a non-causal correlation.
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Solar-to-fuel system recycles CO2 to make ethanol and ethylene(m.phys.org)
8 points by c517402 9y ago|0 comments
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by c517402 9y ago
Why is Physics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?
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by c517402 9y ago
I visited my brother in Sydney and he took me to a restaurant where they served chunks of raw kangaroo meat with a super-heated rock to cook it on. I thought the meat was pretty good.
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by c517402 9y ago
They only report scores up to 800, so adding 50 to my 920 isn't really doing anything for me.

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