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by q_revert 2y ago
I rushed mine, to the extent that my supervisor mentioned it to me a few years later... it was a reflection of my state of mind at the time, exhausted and overwhelmed.. if I ever get around to doing another one I'll give it the attenti
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by q_revert 2y ago
somewhat of an aside, but really enjoyed the scrolling dynamic on this site
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by q_revert 4y ago
despite having a phd in nonlinear dynamics, I struggle to wrap my head around most of this stuff... but I always found is deeply fascinating. In one system I studied we had a sequence of period doublings, which followed one of the feigenbau
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by q_revert 4y ago
the extensibility of matplotlib is simply incredible to me. I've always found the main limiting factor to be my imagination, once I wrap my head around what I want a plot to look like I know matplotlib will facilitate it. An absolute m
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by q_revert 7y ago
exact analytical solutions are nice as a check against any numerical solutions imo. (checking the same calculations in multiple ways is handy for error catching ime)
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by q_revert 7y ago
because it's really hard, and they need to publish :) -- phd in physics
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by q_revert 8y ago
Having spent ~6 years studying nonlinear laser dynamics, it always amuses me to see bifurcation theory pop up on HN. https://neuronaldynamics.epfl.ch/online/Ch4.S4.html A fantastic resource on a lot of this material (b
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by q_revert 10y ago
doing the math is seldom enough ;) *KE == kinetic energy kinetic energy: "energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its sta
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by q_revert 10y ago
anonymous messages are sometimes very powerful, measurements that are easy to make are not necessarily the right ones to make sometimes you get snowed in, often you get snowed under
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by q_revert 10y ago
a spectacularly unbiased example, multiple measurements, experimental and simulated, of the same thing :) http://imgur.com/a/m2GRZ
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by q_revert 10y ago
a book, with some strikingly similar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_Larry
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by q_revert 10y ago
Using a term like nonlinear science is like referring to the bulk of zoology as the study of non-elephant animals. — Stanislaw Ulam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system
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by q_revert 10y ago
I think this is the paper, which oddly isn't linked in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01618
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by q_revert 10y ago
matplotlib. at times it can be tiresome, given the multitude of ways it's possible to do things, but it's always possible
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by q_revert 10y ago
I've only made two submissions. By some odd coincidence both made it to #1, which has scared me off making any further submissions for fear of ruining my perfect score! :D
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by q_revert 11y ago
As an Irish citizen I was wondering which countries our British counterparts could get to that we couldn't :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Visa_req... https://uploa
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by q_revert 12y ago
I'm a physicist (semiconductor lasers), now doing tech support, it's a big change for me, but so far it's been great
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by q_revert 12y ago
I started work at google pretty recently, and expressed an interest in working on a particular project. I made some notes about some of my ideas, and was putting some stuff together to show to one of the teams, to get some input before prot
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by q_revert 12y ago
Another vote for firefox OS here, I definitely think they're making a better effort than most in this space. The fact that firefox is targeting entry level devices in a serious way is another positive for me. I've been using a ZTE
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by q_revert 12y ago
agreed, this is exactly the sort of thing for loops in shell are useful for.. incidentally, in zsh you can do this with for f (*.md) pandoc $f --to html > $f:r.html personally I find that when I can fit a loop on a single line in
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by q_revert 12y ago
> What's more, if I record a macro and run it, then realize after it that I want to do a small addition, I have to go through all the "setup" steps again - go back to the start, re-record, add the logical of finding the n
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by q_revert 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/Ueqq29i.png is what my current vimperator browsing window looks like (ff27), the new changes make this very difficult to replicate via changes to userChrome.css, but hopefully, as it gets more exposure, t
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by q_revert 12y ago
the output of htop is almost distinguishable here http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/04/08/business/Vulnerabl... "Companies scrambling to seal up their systems from hackers and government snoo
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by q_revert 13y ago
I use <space> as my Easymotion leader.. https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion it's well worth a look, gives you super quick fine grained movement similarly inoremap jj <ESC> to take you f
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by q_revert 13y ago
and another reason to use zsh is the incredibly nice looping syntax, for example, this is the same as for fic (**/*(.)) doSomethingWith $fic I find the fact that it fits in a single line makes me much more likely to use it in ev
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by q_revert 13y ago
the ability to copy/paste is particularly useful in this case, given that that's what most people end up doing anyway.. particularly for more complicated commands
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by q_revert 13y ago
just in case there's anyone who hasn't seen it before, Xming[0] combined with {putty,kitty,alternative} allows you to `ssh -X host` [0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
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by q_revert 13y ago
"the bridge" is a fantastic documentary which looks into issues, and talks with some of the people who lost family to depression/suicide on the Golden Gate bridge. Well worth watching [edit] http://www.imdb.com&#x2
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by q_revert 13y ago
what might also be interesting is to see how karma is accrued.. from a huge number of submissions, or from a large number of insightful comments, or what the breakdown is.. for example, i've made two submissions, both making it to th
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by q_revert 13y ago
to me vimperator isn't just about having a few vim bindings here and there, it completely redefines the browsing experience... also, when you "f" to find links, you can just enter a piece of the url string and vimperator ope

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