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by tpudlik 1y ago
I had to look up the article to figure out if this was the intolerable downside of having kids (all this work raising them, and then they just fly out of the nest) or _not_ having them (with your scientific work the only great project of y
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by tpudlik 2y ago
I don't think people choose Python because it's virtues as a language for tooling (it's not great from that perspective, statically linked binaries would be better). They choose it because of the ecosystem of libraries. For d
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by tpudlik 3y ago
Getting images of simple molecules or lattices seems tricky.
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Generative AI and scientific images/diagrams(nanoscale.blogspot.com)
1 points by tpudlik 3y ago|1 comments
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Physics Examples and Other Pedagogic Diversions by K. McDonald(kirkmcd.princeton.edu)
1 points by tpudlik 3y ago|0 comments
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by tpudlik 3y ago
Did you mean to say it's _related_? The original "spiral" image by Ugleh is explicitly credited in the "Related Links" section.
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by tpudlik 3y ago
Thank you for the prompt, that's very useful! I'm surprised GPT "knows" what Monster of the Week is. RPGs in general are somewhat obscure, and to ask for a specific one at that?
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by tpudlik 3y ago
I agree with all these criticism. But I also know many human DMs who make the same stylistic decisions as GPT did here. It's definitely not good Burning Wheel, but it might be ok D&D? On the other hand, I appreciate the GPT's
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by tpudlik 4y ago
Yeah, maybe there's a confusion between percentage and fraction, and this was meant to be 0.001 (not 0.001%). But if so, the error is not the journalist's: I clicked through and the original paper also contains this improbable fig
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by tpudlik 4y ago
Re 2: this is not true if you're doing margin or futures trading, which was FTX's main business (and may be Binance's). This type of business is what characterizes an "exchange" (as opposed to a non-margin brokerage
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by tpudlik 4y ago
Yeah! Its deepest point is only 10 m shallower than the deepest point of the Baltic Sea!
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by tpudlik 4y ago
Relatively little energy is actually used for heating and cooling. In the UK, a country pretty far north, it's about a fifth of energy use ( https://www.withouthotair.com/c7/page_53.shtml ), and could be substantial
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by tpudlik 5y ago
There must be a little more to this, since clearly they are not a wholly owned subsidiary.
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by tpudlik 5y ago
I bought and played it after reading this piece. It's a small but enjoyable game; if you're at all intrigued, I'd encourage checking it out!
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by tpudlik 5y ago
Looks like the fundamental problem is that a substantial number of users are perfectly willing to sign up for providing fake likes, as long as they receive fake likes in return. A tragedy of the commons.
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by tpudlik 6y ago
Interesting. I use Pigma Microns for line drawing, but never used them for writing. They are lovely!
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by tpudlik 6y ago
He was the CEO of Waze, but not of Google. After the acquisition, he had to adopt Google promo processes.
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by tpudlik 6y ago
He does have a passion for automation, but where's the dissonance? He recognizes it in the very opening, with the xkcd!
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by tpudlik 6y ago
I believe they are talking about using Zoom to call friends/family from your work laptop.
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by tpudlik 6y ago
You can export to BiBTeX (.bib).
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by tpudlik 7y ago
That (nicotine carrying non-minimal health risks) is Myth 3 in the linked article. I recommend reading it, it's very informative!
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by tpudlik 7y ago
I see this as a win-win, too, but in a different way. Early on, the US companies cut their costs: good for them, and likely their customers. In the long term, China developed the expertise needed to contribute to the development of advanced
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by tpudlik 8y ago
This is all true, but I sometimes missed the nuance of less witty but more detail-oriented histories. Harari could seem flippant at times, which mostly amused me when I agreed with him, but left me worried when I didn't. In a book this
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by tpudlik 8y ago
Lengthening the second is unlikely: for every physical phenomenon with a duration (from the rotational period of other planets to the frequency of atomic transitions), you would forever after have to wonder, is that value quoted in"new
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by tpudlik 9y ago
Abstract of a talk with the same title by one of the authors (Ju Sun; coming up at Duke University on February 5th, 2018): Many problems arising from scientific and engineering applications can be naturally formulated as optimization proble
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When Are Nonconvex Optimization Problems Not Scary? (2015)(arxiv.org)
1 points by tpudlik 9y ago|1 comments
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by tpudlik 9y ago
There is much more redundancy in terrestrial cables (because they are vastly cheaper to lay), so they're much less of a single point of failure.
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by tpudlik 9y ago
Not exactly the same concept. Need-based admission requires need-blind aid, but not the other way around: especially for foreign students, many good US colleges need-based aid if you get an offer, but are less likely to admit you.
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by tpudlik 9y ago
> The idea of truth-seeking is laughable. You are required to switch sides each time. I'm with you, except for this bit. The side-switching is the primary way for truth-seeking to enter debate. If you only look for arguments for one
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by tpudlik 9y ago
This depends on what the alternative is. For people who can't afford an American sticker price for a car, the choice is between a less safe (but cheaper) car and the near-suicidal experience of riding a motorbike. Selling "unsafe&

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