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Harmohit

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About Harmohit

Physicist turned Software Engineer.

h s b i n d r a "at" u w a t e r l o o "dot" ca

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    This sounds really good! If the largest population and probably the largest manufacturer in the world goes green, that is going to be really good for climate change. I hope India f…

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    As another comment mentioned, this website does look like Time Cube at first sight. However, the explanations of the second law of thermodynamics on the second page are quite decen…

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    I am surprised I have not seen LabView mentioned in this thread. It is arguably one of the most popular visual programming languages after Excel and I absolutely hate it. It has al…

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    I didn't know there is such a thing as a metallurgical microscope. What makes them different from biological microscopes? And what is there primary purpose? I am assuming they don'…

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    If we define a computer in very broad terms: a system used to emulate/simulate another system, could we call a wind tunnel a computer? It is a system that is used to infer what wou…

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    This is so cool! "Dissecting" a processor like this could be a fun educational activity to do in schools similar to dissecting a frog, but without the animal rights issues.

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    They have also tried to use nuclear power for space propulsion. Here is a fun one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

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    I enjoy reading posts like this. Very thorough description. I am wondering if someone has insights into how the publishing model for more traditional publishers like Wiley and Else…

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    This article does a great job at explaining interval arithmetic. However, the introduction says >Instead of treating each as exactly 7 feet, we can instead say that each is somewhe…

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    I wonder if open source software can play a role in this. Maybe we can have an open source algorithm for determining credit ratings and private companies only provide a secure data…

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    Why is the debt ceiling defined as an absolute number? Wouldn't it make more sense to define it as a percent of the GDP or tax revenue

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    In my opinion, the way Subnautica motivates is players to play is through a natural sense of exploration - it wants you to think, "This is such a cool planet, I want to explore it"…

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    I am in Canada and I still get the German page

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    [Spoiler Alert] Subnautica is amazing! I remember the first time I discovered the huge turtle whales - it was such a surreal feeling. The world design of the game does such a good …

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    We strongly need a "prestigious" journal devoted to publishing reproductions of other studies. Moreover, we need to change our perception of a good scientist. Doing novel research …

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    I used to experience this had a kid! Not only did words and some names have shapes, but they were quite often coloured shapes. I have quite strong memories of some of the associati…

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    Hahaha, that is so true and so annoying. I am perpetually scared of sending the wrong thing in the wrong group. It gets even worse if the groups have similar names. If only there w…

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    The exploration of type theory in this blog post is quite interesting