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by ekun 2y ago
I worked with an older German man who was a consultant on a research project that I was working on in graduate school. He was born in Gottingen and told stories how as a kid he got to test his paper airplanes in their wind tunnels with thes
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by ekun 3y ago
No Apple logo.
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by ekun 3y ago
I printed out a nice 1-page guide to flexbox a few weeks ago and keep it on my desk, and it's a great reference.
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by ekun 3y ago
This story is in the article as well.
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by ekun 3y ago
I haven't seen people mention it really, but isn't this all in response to ChatGPT deriving a lot of it's content from Reddit? I know that Google search has gotten so bad in the last couple years that I normally have to add &
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by ekun 7y ago
Why did the first 2 replies to this comment use the phrasing that that is his 'MO'?
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by ekun 7y ago
And then people used electric sheep in the later two-thousands which was a pretty interesting concept.
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by ekun 7y ago
Just a heads up...on your homepage when hovering over the artist's name "Anastasiia Andriichuk" the highlight seems to add padding on each side which makes the line break in between their first and last name and the page gets
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by ekun 8y ago
I went to a talk at Oak Ridge National Lab soon after the discovery of Ununseptium (element 117 that is now called Tennessine) and it was really interesting the international collaboration needed to make the discovery happen. Basically, at
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by ekun 8y ago
Well, as fun as it is to mess up benadryl cucumber's name it's very easy to spell correctly.
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by ekun 8y ago
If you look more into it, Germany was very close to being able to build a reactor that would have been able to produce plutonium. Their graphite reactor research never went critical because they didn't know that the boron impurities in
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by ekun 8y ago
Just go to duckduckgo.com and search for anything with the word stream on the end.
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by ekun 8y ago
Keep in mind too that a lot of long scientific simulations are more complicated than vectorized loops or linear algebra. Monte Carlo algorithms were developed to simulate neutrons in the Manhattan project and programmed with the help of Von
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by ekun 8y ago
Any compiled language will be drastically faster than an interpretive scripting language like Python (although numpy/scipy is generally C or Fortran libraries compiled to be called by Python). Having said that I used Fortran for my PhD
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by ekun 8y ago
Funny you mention the mouse support because in the blog post here you cannot scroll through it using a mouse which is pretty annoying.
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by ekun 8y ago
I think it wouldn't be explicitly included, but it goes into the bottom line of big pharma companies. There is a very lengthy process of getting drugs through the FDA which makes investment's return-on-investment difficult to just
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by ekun 8y ago
There's a lot of skeptics in here with myself included to a certain extent. But I really appreciate your story and am interested in pursuing a similar trajectory. I don't understand how anyone can be fully skeptical that bettering
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by ekun 8y ago
This has been my experience. Although I know other languages, when I go to write a solver for CFD, radiation transport, heat transfer, etc I normally have gone with OpenMPI and Fortran. For me, Fortran is almost like writing psuedocode.
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by ekun 8y ago
"Renewable energy" is a perfect term, but I think that it has the same negative connotation for the people who have an aversion to the term "clean energy".
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by ekun 8y ago
But you'll be fine on NA servers.
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by ekun 8y ago
While I agree about productivity now (although rewriting a source for cat that is used decades later seems very productive), I think the above commenter has it correct that it was probably a side project that he worked on and released after
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by ekun 8y ago
Which is exactly what professional sports teams do often even if they've been somewhere a while and have no intention of leaving.
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by ekun 8y ago
Wait are you saying that smoking is really cool?
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by ekun 8y ago
The US invests a lot of money into researching advanced reactors only so the money can be sprinkled around to different labs, companies, and universities to keep our knowledge/workforce updated until they shift focus every couple years
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by ekun 8y ago
This is exactly correct. The problem is solved by dozens of paper reactors or waste storage plans that do not exist. We can develop these things and we already invest tons of money into R&D which always gets allocated stopping short of
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by ekun 8y ago
Too be fair the article is discussing 2 separate bills. One is to support R&D for advanced reactors and one is to help subsidize current designs so some of this discussion is a little confusing from the different contexts. I'm not
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by ekun 8y ago
The fear is a real and large issue that leads to a lack of reasonable discourse when evaluating pros and cons of nuclear against other sources in terms of funding advanced technologies and building current designs. But the fear is not neces
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by ekun 8y ago
It's wild to imagine but 100% believable to think that the US Navy already has technology to defeat a large mass of cheap weaponized drones. And even more entertaining if it's lasers.
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by ekun 8y ago
I've noticed that decisions like this are sometimes made for the sake of being the opposite of something else and then the two coexist decades within neighboring realms to the frustration and bafflement of users.
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by ekun 8y ago
In the wiki linked, that is in fact his first-listed innovation ... he condensed 20 equations into 4 using vector calculus.

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