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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-mysterious-phenomenon-center-g...

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-simulating-quantum-butterfly-e...

Putting the fox in the chicken coop?

Here's a couple 100% pure Stevia leaf extract products I found with a quick search on Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Sweetener-Servings-BSL-BSw... https://www.amazon.c…

See also John Baez's thread at https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/159280129111350067... in which he states: "No. Yitang Zhang did NOT prove the Landau-Siegel zeros conjectur…

$paywalled??

Natalie Wolchover's article referring to this is also nice... https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-time-crystal-built-usin...

There were 4 of the then state-of-the-art, fastest in the world, CDC-7600 and CDC-6600 computers installed at Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLL, now LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Lab…

I can't claim to have it on my bookshelf anymore, but DID have the original hardcopy on my bookshelf for many years back in the 70's and early 80's when I was programming some low-…

Previous posts have nicely covered almost all of the textbooks and papers I would have mentioned myself, including K&R's _C Programming_, Brooks' _Mythical Man-Month_, Feynman's Le…

IEEE member since 1995; joined because my company paid for it (also joined the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and even APS, American Physical Society, at that time for the same reason.…

Great snapshot for the turn of millenium. Thanks for posting and triggering the trip down memory lane. Especially nostalgic for me personally as I was in the midst of coding early …

Downloading from the link https://www.bourns.com/pdfs/OnlinePotentiometerHandbook.pdf produces a corrupted copy (many pages missing or out of order.) This is a better link: https:/…

Perhaps you could include a comparison with BSTR implementation used extensively in Windows COM interfaces?

especially paywalled links to sources such as WSJ

Actual work location, if not 100% remote.

Yes, the ??? on line 2 is KWH. You can see this clearly at: https://historical.ha.com/itm/explorers/space-exploration/ap...

hate these paywall posts

Fyi, the topic was discussed a few months back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163528 after the _Quantamagazine_ article was reprinted in _Wired_.

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Been using this for decades; my first boss, a PhD physicist, out of college got me started on using this. It's still being sold today: https://www.amazon.com/National-Computation-N…

dang, another paywall