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Maar ik kan niet lezen Nederlands.
I understand that you read about a "a neutrino network that would transmit directly through the Earth, for true point-to-point communication," but you obviously didn't read the paper. Here it is.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 It's a proof-of-principle. A stunning achievement, no doubt. But it's hardly a practical option for communication, "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth."
Ant colonies? WTF?
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biggus_dictus on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:31PM
from the root.cern.ch dept.
It may not be awesome. But it works.
To be clear: the python interface does use CINT underneath; it's just that the user is less exposed to the subtle "features" that give CINT it's unique character.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, likes CINT.
> it would be easier for Elsevier to shut down arxiv.org.
It is disheartening to think that such a thing is even remotely possible.
Did you read the article? So many fundamental equations become more elegant when pi is redefined in this way. Isn't pi/2 = half, pi=whole more direct?