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Re:Toxic Nectar Kills 90% of Mosquito Populations
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @01:30PM (#3044308)
Yeah, you're new here, aren't you? Just today there was a thread about the Dead Sea scrolls being put online thanks to the Israel museum. One of the prominent comments there is about how Israel "stole" the scrolls. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3041572
Re:Toxic Nectar Kills 90% of Mosquito Populations
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:13PM (#3043914)
> And that, according to scientists from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is an Achilles’ heel — or Achilles’ proboscis — through which the pests can also be poisoned.
This thread presents a great opportunity to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict. Who wants to start?
Re:A beginners guide to using Python for performance computing
on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @12:33AM (#2989953)
I'm really curious why you're not using LAPACK or ScaLAPACK for this. They were created specifically so that you would get the best possible performance regardless of which language you're using or which architecture you're running on.
Re:Saylor offers millions of dollars in bounties for open textbooks
on Friday September 09, 2011 @07:35AM (#2977695)
This really shows the problem with this model. Textbook publishers have been very successful at attracting the top authorities in their respective fields to write the textbook. Sure, anyone can rehash what's already written in any other textbook. But can Saylor get someone like Halmos or Axler to write their linear algebra textbook?