dynamic_sausage

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Particle physicists overfit their models to observations(youtube.com)
2 points by dynamic_sausage 4y ago|0 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Indeed, this is one misleading title. The Soviets were really fond of Steinbeck and especially the Grapes of Wrath (the book) up until the moment he wrote positively of the American troops in Vietnam in the 60s. After that, all his books
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Whatever Happened to Google Search?(ft.com)
4 points by dynamic_sausage 4y ago|2 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
https://archive.ph/90akO
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Another approach that does not show up in comments here is to use a reference manager, such as Zotero . It integrates nicely with browsers, so that saving webpages or pdfs is only one click away. Data is stored locally, so if a resource go
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
> complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere I have some weird preferences in keybindings (alt-space=backspace etc), and Xkb could very easily handle everything I threw at it. If you are using X11, you should
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
> complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere I have some weird preferences in keybindings (alt-space=backspace etc), and Xkb could very easily handle everything I threw at it. If you are using X11, you should
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
This text seems to quickly get rather technical, with theorems and stuff. I would suggest looking at Golomb's classical Polyominoes first https://archive.org/details/polyominoes00golo/page/n7/mode&
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Annoying as it may be, this situation is somewhat ubiquitous in the history of human knowledge. Transistors were invented by Lilienfeld, yet everyone knows about the work of Bardeen et al. at Bell Labs. Einstein in relativity is the Balto o
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
The author seems to be unaware of the large market for travel data esims. Airalo and Ubigi are two examples of user-facing resellers of these, which make buying a physical prepaid sim near obsolete. I would say that for travel, esim is much
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
See, this is a really interesting point there: do we separate the speaker and the speech, or do we lump them together? I.e., if a Hitler (you saw that coming) says something demonstrably true, while a Pope (yep) says something demonstrably
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
This is a good point. Just like it should be ok to read Kipling for his literary merits, keeping in mind you don't have to agree with his politics.
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Yep. Likewise for Solzhenitsyn who denied Ukraine and its language the right to existence in no uncertain terms. See e.g. the 1990 essay "How should we organize Russia": (link in Russian) https://ru.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Gogol is an interesting one though. There being no Ukrainian state at the time, he was appropriated by the Russian literature as a quintessential Russian writer, but his sympathetic sentiment towards the Cossack tradition is well-known (and
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
The note claimed to be found at these "terrorists'" place in the bottom photo of the link you posted goes: dedicated to blah-blah, kill to live and live to kill, signature not legible . That is, the actual words "signat
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
For a slightly different take on this problem (a calendar in plain text), calendar.vim plugin by itchyny provides a wrapper for Google calendar in Vim. The option of viewing your calendars and tasks on the phone or anything with Google ca
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Twitter is great for threads posting science-related curiosities, you just need to follow the right people. Here are two awesome accounts of general interest https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973 https://twitter.com&
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Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel(youtube.com)
9 points by dynamic_sausage 4y ago|0 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 4y ago
Some of the tales from my childhood that I hold very dear to this day looked at really tough topics: death, solitude, betrayal. "Ronia, the Robber's Daughter", "Timm Thaler, or the Traded Laughter", "The Advent
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
zotfile plugin, mentioned above in this thread, makes file names user friendly.
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
I am always mystified by such emails. Does the addressee think they will receive messages automatically? Or does the sender think everybody has an email in their name? Very curious...
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
Some of the other pages on the site are in French, so perhaps the author's first language is French.
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
Thanks for posting these, they are very cool. I was not trying to say he wasn't trustworthy, I am sure he means well. (plus, I am certainly not qualified to judge his advice) What I am thinking about is this: how confident can you gene
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
Not sure what this guy's credentials are, but here he tries to give advice to the people who have i) overthrown a corrupt government with little but baseball bats, tires, and home-made molotovs ii) stopped and maybe even reversed the p
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Hossenfelder's proposal on early universe inflation had to mention diversity(twitter.com)
17 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|4 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
Some of the issues in the article seem to have been caused by the push to make laptops smaller: internal battery, fewer ports. A natural solution would be to change the series you use to a larger one — e.g., go from X to T, etc. I owned T44
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
Not all mathematicians are bad at arithmetic. Both Euler and Gauss were brilliant calculators. Another comment mentions Ramanujan. In more recent history, Arnold in his exams would give problems with plenty of arithmetic estimates, that had
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
The article also claims sex is fun without any corroborating data. Highly suspicious!
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ThinkBook Plus Gen 3: dual display business laptop(tomsguide.com)
1 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|1 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
It seems this article actually measured how well people could use their editor of choice vs Word, which has nothing to do with LaTeX. I especially liked the claim that "expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users&quo

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