cetacea

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by cetacea 11y ago
Yeah, so the "law" as stated in the Wikipedia article is not correct.
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by cetacea 11y ago
I'm not opposed to being served ads. I just think taking an essay about counterculture and serving it with ads is highly ironic. And I didn't say readtext is a startup. I said it's hosted by a startup (vrocket). Also ironic.
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by cetacea 11y ago
"Who will be the next CEO of Apple?" "No." Someone didn't think this law through...
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by cetacea 11y ago
An essay about technology counterculture, now hosted by a tech startup on a website that serves ads.
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by cetacea 11y ago
I have no idea who "they" or "our" refers to, or what "sudden jump" you're talking about.
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by cetacea 11y ago
> Try approaching them and saying: Hi! I would like to reserve two billion DOIs :) If you've already registered a prefix with them (say it's 10.8888), then you have an essentially unlimited namespace of possible suffixes for fo
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by cetacea 11y ago
We already have the DOI system. Why is a new system needed?
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by cetacea 11y ago
> Is there an actual model of light based on his work? Yes: classical electromagnetism. It's an outrageously successful model of how light behaves. It doesn't predict photons, but that doesn't mean it's not an "a
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by cetacea 11y ago
Even better, p-values should not be used at all. If I have data in hand, I want to use it to find out the probability that my hypothesis is true. But p-value analysis requires me to instead ask a different question that I don't really
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by cetacea 11y ago
If Markdown were around (and widely used) when MediaWiki was written, I imagine there would have been a push to use it as the markup language for MediaWiki. I don't see MediaWiki markup as byzantine or archaic, except for whatever half
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by cetacea 11y ago
And trying to click on "About" in the sidebar returns a 403 for me. What a tease!
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by cetacea 11y ago
I think most other people use a single M to mean million, and k for thousand. Can't we just use SI prefixes or spell the numbers out instead of using some random alternate convention?
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by cetacea 11y ago
> $40+mm 40 million million dollars?
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by cetacea 11y ago
You can install custom CSS somewhere in your .jupyter directory. Of course, this feature is undocumented and different from the analogous (documented) ipython feature.
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by cetacea 11y ago
> Cosmologists are people who publish papers that can't be tested Once again you are wrong. Mather, Smoot, Perlmutter, and Riess are all cosmologists. Their Nobel prizes were awarded for results in cosmology. Your idiosyncratic rede
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by cetacea 11y ago
> I'm not sure anything has actually been figured out by a professional Cosmologist You are 100% wrong. Several Nobel prizes have been awarded for seminal results in cosmology, like observation of the cosmic microwave background and