spinonethird

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by spinonethird 13y ago
It would start boiling but this very fact would very quickly cool it off to freezing point: water has a very high heat of vaporization.
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by spinonethird 13y ago
And the counter-counterpoint is the paradox of thrift. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
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by spinonethird 14y ago
The physicist involved are also skeptical of their own experiments. That's why they independently build two experiments, ATLAS and CMS, that measure the decay product of the collisions (in addition, they are also a number of other more spec
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by spinonethird 14y ago
In similar news, researches recently found that Madagascar was colonized by Indonesian people, not people coming from mainland Africa. Moreover, there were only about 30 female settlers (no information about male settlers as the study was d
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by spinonethird 15y ago
The Bach metaphor is really bad. I believe Hofstadter referees to the canon by which Bach inscribed "Ascendenteque Modulatione ascendat Gloria Regis" ("As the keys ascend so may the glory of the king also ascend"). Bach did not mean that af
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by spinonethird 18y ago
I think your analysis is way off. The problems you cite are not problems of size but of population density. And I would not think that anybody in their right mind would argue that the cure for Africa's many problems is more population You c
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by spinonethird 18y ago
From your description you don't seem to really use the db, so can't you roll your own specialized data structure? If each record is 20 byte, 1/2 million per minute for one hour is about 1/2 gig, so you can keep everything in memory.
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by spinonethird 18y ago
Fro what it is worth, from my experience doing research it is very important for your sanity to work with other people that are about the same level of competence as you. That means other grad students or young post docs. Working with profe
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by spinonethird 18y ago
Another solution is to keep the Ctrl keys where they are (note the plural), but hit them with the side of your hands: you just need to roll you hand a little bit to the outside. It takes a little practice to do this reliably, but it cures p
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by spinonethird 18y ago
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove. —Antoine de Saint-Exupery