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Re:The Identity of Kim Il Sung (1949) [pdf]
on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:41PM (#32220269)
Oh, I thought he had derived a math identity.
Re:Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power
on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:20PM (#32051464)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5679 link to the article in Science
Re:A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:51AM (#23151501)
A 2018 paper by Strang about this approach:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00029890.2018.14...
Re:Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died
on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:38AM (#20361431)
The story of Feigenbaum presented in Gleik's Chaos is the reason I chose to do physics.
Re:Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:12AM (#20233697)
"Hacker school" rebranded to "The Recurse Center"
www.recurse.com
Re:There Was a Time before Mathematica (2013)
on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:06PM (#19228659)
Theoretical physics and applied maths. I occasionally see people at the back of seminars with their laptop open, pugging away at their current puzzle with Mathematica.
I've used it to test and prototype calculations and algorithms.
The Stackexchange page for Mathematica is pretty amazing, and quite a good community.
Re:Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:55AM (#18940621)
The main sections of the talk without note are:
- Bert and Natural Language processing, - Tesla Autopilot Hardware v2+: NN at scale, - AdaNet: AutoML with Ensembles, - AutoAugmentation, - Training Deep Networks with Synthetic data, - Segmentation Annotation with Polygon-RNN++, - DAWNBench: Training fast and cheap, - Big GAN: state of the art in image sythesis, - Video to Video Synthesis, - Semantic segmentation, - AlphaZero and openAI Five, - Deep learning frameworks
Re:UK scientists build world’s first quantum compass
on Sunday November 11, 2018 @05:32AM (#18425766)
Blendle: https://launch.blendle.com, my do the trick if you want to pay something.
It is originally from the Netherlands. I don't know how comprehensive it is for English periodicals.
Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:16PM (#18367508)
"Can you make the error bars a bit smaller please?".... "um no, I'm affraid they are as I've calculated "
Re:Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M
on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:07AM (#18003577)
Time's chief art critic describes what it was like when magazine expense accounts were deep.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...
Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
on Sunday August 05, 2018 @10:09PM (#17694693)
A medical doctor friend of mine pointed out that thinking slow was fine, except in an emergency or indeed any time--limited situation where the rate of response needs to be above some threshold. Think: baraster responding to opponent, a and e doctor, board-room negotiation etc.
Re:I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity rese...
on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:46PM (#17426156)
Exactly the question I would love answered.
Edit: this seems roughly answered to a question by user r4um
The Mathematics of weight loss (2013)
Re:Cockatoo identified in 13th Century European book
on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:03PM (#17403969)
It would be interesting to know when this cockatoo was last seen if at all in west papua or papua new guinia.
Even so it is a fascinating story.
Fuel Cells Finally Find a Killer App: Carbon Capture
Re:Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fi...
on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:59AM (#16647237)
Bats too? I'm very curious to know if bat populations have also fallen. They are also dependent on the insects.
Re:Stephen Hawking has died
on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:44AM (#16583717)
"Chaos" by James Gleick is about the same age as Hawking's book. The story of discovery there gives a great idea of the adventure in science.
Re:The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration
on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:57AM (#15895722)
I don't think it needs to be changed. It's actually really interesting to wonder what Mathematics is going to be like in 2048.
Re:The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration
on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:49AM (#15895552)
I was expecting a maths where quantum computation had taken over analytic number theory and theorems could be proved using brute force enumeration.Or something
Re:The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration
on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:52AM (#15895389)
Oh,I misread this title and thought it was going to be about maths in the year 2048.
Re:Order pizza from Vim
on Saturday December 02, 2017 @07:19PM (#15835179)
Can you order pizza from emacs?
Re:History of networks – Niall Ferguson
on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:45AM (#15609859)
Conference talk:
"Networks vs. Hierarchies: A Delicate Relationship"
Re:The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint
on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:10AM (#15608644)
I would be interested to know if there is some good software which copies some of the mechanics of over head projector presentations.
Seems there are some people producing lovingly hand written presentations using tablets
The old ohp slides can be beautiful: I highly recommend digging out Roger Penrose talks on YouTube
Re:History of networks – Niall Ferguson
on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @02:49PM (#15595570)
Here is also a link to a great talk on the thesis that networks are the important thing to study in history.
History of networks – Niall Ferguson
Re:Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in the eyes
on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:31AM (#15497518)
I think this is the link to the original paper
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1865/2017...
Re:Calculating the Distance Between Points in Wrap Around (Toroidal) S...
on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:51AM (#15382507)
This type of calculation is used on a very regular basis in molecular dynamics simulation. The wrap-around space is implemented using periodic boundary conditions. Calculating the distance between points is most often done using what is called the minimum image convention. In one dimension for a "box" of length L the minimum image distance between particles i and j: xij = xj - xi can be calculated through xij <- xij - L*nint(xij/L). This avoids any if statements.
Re:The $8M Replacement for a $20 Dollar Fan (2013)
on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:38AM (#15376823)
In "Surly you're joking my Feynman" there is the story of RF talking to the painter who teaches him to mix paints, and the colours you need to get make yellow. Turns out you should talk to the person who's been mixing paints all their working life.
Isn't there a similar story after the challenger accident where he talks to the maintenance people on the ground?