dehowell

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by dehowell 14y ago
Not true. Links from daringfireball.net to older episodes of the Talk Show are still intact: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/30/the-talk-show-61
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by dehowell 16y ago
I bet this will be possible whenever a PC driver for Kinect becomes available: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ControllerManip... About a year ago, I was working on a machine learning problem. I had a lot of training data I w
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New version of Mathematica released(blog.wolfram.com)
55 points by dehowell 16y ago|30 comments
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by dehowell 16y ago
You've got to get some statistical mechanics on this list. One would have a very difficult understanding quantum field theory without at least some experience considering phase transitions in more familiar settings. Feynman's Statistical Me
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I am a racist : Good Math, Bad Math(scienceblogs.com)
10 points by dehowell 16y ago|5 comments
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by dehowell 17y ago
Don't you have to give mpg123 an explicit path to an mp3 file? dhun lets you play mp3 files by searching for them, through the Spotlight database.
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by dehowell 17y ago
Anyone who likes this should also check out mpd: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki More work to configure, but also works on Linux. There's a wonderful ncurses interface called ncmpc as well. mpd + ncmpc has been my iTune
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by dehowell 17y ago
Wrong book, dude. You're thinking about Of Mice and Men .
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by dehowell 17y ago
Z bosons decay into a lepton (electron, muon, or tau particle) and its anti-particle. Those decay products pass through a magnetic field and eventually collide with a material that absorbs all of their energy. Measuring the path of the lept
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by dehowell 17y ago
Where is Be now?
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by dehowell 17y ago
With known equations, then yes, dimensional analysis is essentially just a form of bookkeeping that helps you verify your math as you go. But once you get into using quantum field theory to study new systems, the standard approach is to con
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by dehowell 17y ago
> Start putting stuff in likely equations where the units work out to the desired answer. Working physicists call this 'dimensional analysis' and it's pretty much the foundational skill of theoretical physics.
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by dehowell 18y ago
I couldn't agree more. Grant money is precious. Instead of spending three or four grad student salaries to pay a programmer a competitive wage, it makes more far more sense to fund three or four students on research assistantships where the
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by dehowell 18y ago
No longer true. Indiana is mostly observing DST as of a couple of years ago.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Fraternity membership is voluntary. Race isn't. "Frat" is not analogous to a racial slur.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Many retailers tack an extra $1 charge when you use a bank card as a debit card... so I always run it as credit.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Well, if 18 year olds are good soldiers because they aren't fully mature, why not allow 14 year olds to be soldiers? Or 8 year olds for that matter... after all, as African warlords have shown, even a small child can be a great soldier with
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by dehowell 18y ago
I'm so pissed that I upvoted you, now that I've seen your contributions to other threads. But hey, you managed to finally make a comment that didn't call someone gay or disparage gay people... maybe some positive reinforcement will help you
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by dehowell 18y ago
Yes, but be careful to stay on Nurse Ratchett's good side.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Yes, the parents of Mitchell Henderson are indeed pussies. It's unbelievable that they could be so thin skinned about a few harmless prank calls... come on, it's only the suicide of their child we're talking about! Being outraged by a probl
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by dehowell 18y ago
No. Even though particle physics gets all the media attention, theories like this (and string theory for that matter), are shallow in comparison to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. It's exciting to find out what the smallest buildi
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by dehowell 18y ago
There are two ways you can look at an aphorism such as this "brick wall" business. Either: 1. These words of wisdom are a useful way to motivate myself when things are rough. 2. These words of wisdom should be used as a criteria for judging
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by dehowell 18y ago
Nonsense. You're talking about politicians jumping on a bandwagon that earned them cheap family values points, which is neither surprising, nor indicative of the attitudes of liberals in general.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Yes, but being the market leader is meaningless unless your site actually generates revenue. YouTube's founders are in a nice position now, but as I recall, Google is still saying that they have no idea how to make money with YouTube. If cu
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by dehowell 18y ago
Wait, are you saying that Hacker News is left leaning? I don't know, I think there's enough diversity of political opinion around here to prevent a broad characterization one way or the other.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Umm, you can type regular HTML tags in a Markdown document. It parses just fine.
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by dehowell 18y ago
In the best of all worlds, this is the best of all possible comments.
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by dehowell 18y ago
Oh, man... I spent a happy fourth and fifth grade dialing into Richmond, VA area BBSes to download shareware games. Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, and many others... That lasted until my older brother got a dial up account with his univ
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by dehowell 19y ago
If you're a Firefox user, check out the "It's All Text!" extension. It lets you edit any text area in the external editor of your choice. For instance, I'm composing this comment in vim. The download page at mozilla.com claims that it's har
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by dehowell 19y ago
My favorite dirt cheap (but nutritious) dinner is mujadarrah. 1 1/2 c. lentils (rinsed) 3/4 c. rice (rinsed) 1 onion 6 Tbsp. olive oil Slice the onion into 1/4 inch thick rings. Fry them in the oil over medium heat for 15 minutes. They'll

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