rotorblade

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by rotorblade 7y ago
I have been wondering something similar. Just a simple voice-command thing. Not a general purpose, any voice, assistant, but just to be able to say a word 10 times to train (form some average) and then assign a command to that word. Somethi
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by rotorblade 7y ago
Democracy Now! also covered the protests at the end of 2017 [1]. [1] https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/15/special_report_from_...
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by rotorblade 8y ago
Note, that I still do like using Julia. I'm a physicist and need to do a lot of computations in a hassle-free way, then jupyter+Julia (+ SymPy) is(/are) the best available tool(s). The above may only be an issue of BigFloat, to be
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I agree. I meta-programmed (enormous) expressions from analytical expressions exported from Mathematica to Julia, because I found Julia to be ~3000 times faster than Mathematica when it comes to calculating eigenvalues. Using BigFloat for h
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I heard that voiced as a worry, and the logic goes something like this: A small organisation that does not have the capability (money or otherwise) to implement their own content filter, have to look elsewhere for it. Where to go? Probably
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I also find this a useful resource when preparing a talk (slides-based): David Tong's "How to make sure your talk doesn't suck" www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/talks/talk.pdf
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I'm confused over the size of these extra dimensions... They say that they do not rule out small compact extra dimensions, but only large ones, the number they give is ~100 km. But this must surely be ruled out by ordinary gravitationa
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I tried to use pandoc a while ago to convert the latex-sources of arxiv.org documents to epub, since those are often much more comfortable to read on small devices than pdfs. The problem I had was that latex was turned into images, but chan
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by rotorblade 8y ago
Their journals are not even doing their job properly and have published a plagiarised version of a paper already in Nature: https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/8w98c8/shameless_...
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by rotorblade 8y ago
As I said elsewhere in this discussion thread: I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `ex
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `exit status 1`. Have not looked into it more than
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by rotorblade 8y ago
Just have to add a comment on some things. It is unfortunate that they refer to the 26 dimensions... > [...] particles as tiny vibrating loops of string that exist in somewhere between 10 and 26 dimensions. ... of what is known as "
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by rotorblade 8y ago
Yeah, I guess that is fair. It might just be that it is more or less the furthest way from how I like to work as I can imagine. > Sin[θ] //TraditionalForm //TeXForm Did not know of this. Thanks!
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by rotorblade 8y ago
>> The tie-breaker is social, not technical. > The tie-breaker is financial. Jupyter is winning because it's free [...] It is a bit more nuanced than that. Personally I do not pay from Mathematica usage, so why do I like Jupyt
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I use the browser extension 'dark background light text' [1] for that reason. Works OK, far from perfect, but helps quite a bit. [1] https://github.com/m-khvoinitsky/dark-background-light-text-...
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by rotorblade 8y ago
I have it a bit mixed up in my head, but yeah, Sony announced they would do one abandoned it, and then HBO bought it and announced it and abandoned it. So this would be the third step (but I seem to have a memory of that this has been goin
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by rotorblade 9y ago
Since black-holes interact gravitationally with other particles, there must be a mediation of a graviton between them (assuming quantum properties of gravity). However, force mediation is different from a physical particle escaping one ob
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by rotorblade 9y ago
> graviton particle and the Higgs tells space which way to curve The Higgs does not play that kind of role. It is a common misconception, since Higgs it often referred to as "giving mass to the other particles", which is true,
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by rotorblade 9y ago
Is it a good choice though? Isn't there a bunch of possible issues with FAT patents, in case someone wants to ship a product that boots, that could have been avoided by using something else? (I don't know, I just have some vague m
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by rotorblade 9y ago
It is very bad indeed. 1. The judge in the pirate bay case was a member of an organisation "Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt"/"The Swedish Organisation for Copyright" (my own translation), and it was decided not t
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by rotorblade 9y ago
> That suggests that the typical Swedish person feels that sharing copyrighted content is a heinous crime, on par with homicide. Well... I'm not sure that's how you should see it. For example, skimming the document I mentioned,
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by rotorblade 9y ago
> Well, it is technically not a bill [...] Yeah, was not sure how to explain the distinction, hence my quotation marks. Sorry for being vague.
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by rotorblade 9y ago
> I don't know Swedish law, but I will guess that like American law, any parliament/house member can introduce basically any bill saying anything. So this "bill" is the result of an investigation started by the govern
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by rotorblade 9y ago
They never got into the Swedish parliament, only to the EU parliament. They did not perform very well in the Swedish elections (less than 1%, 4% is limit to get seats), and after their initial push their momentum seemed to die off. Accordin
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by rotorblade 9y ago
This, [0], appears to be the conclusion of the investigation that resulted in the bill, which contains a suggestion for a law. [0] (Swedish) http://www.sou.gov.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SOU-2018_6_...
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by rotorblade 9y ago
> Is that what typically motivates a scientist today? Just as a side-note: When I started my Ph.D. studies we had an "introduction course", going through requirements for graduating, seminars by more experienced scientists, wha
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by rotorblade 9y ago
They added a clause in the law in which the service providers are allowed to sell prepaid cards with roaming disabled completely. Several (in Sweden all but one, France at least the one I'm using) service providers chose this option fo
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by rotorblade 9y ago
"free" is a bit misleading, imo. If you pay for a monthly subscription, then... yes, but really no (although this might be beside the point you make). And Pay-as-you-go cards are also a thing, where it is certainly not true (alt
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by rotorblade 9y ago
I can possibly agree with that notion of experiment. My point, in the context of the discussion, was that just because we do not have a an idea for an experiment that would test string theory, in some definite way, does not exclude that the
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by rotorblade 9y ago
Indeed. To emphasize '1)' you could mention most astro- related fields: astronomy, astrophysics, etc, which are almost purely observational .

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