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Is there an additional arXiv paper? The abstract referenced at the bottom refers to a completely different paper.

Actually, LLNL (the site of El Capitan) has a process for requesting Dedicated Application Time (a DAT) where you use up to a whole machine, usually over a weekend. They occur fair…

Steels can undergo a transition to becoming brittle when they get cold (called a “ductile-to-brittle” transition). It’s important to know what the properties would be like in this …

Networking and connections get university students good jobs. Aptitude and drive are what makes them good at those jobs. I think the post you responded to was talking about the lat…

It's not "initial conditions" as in time=0. Thermodynamic state variables are path independent, so "initial conditions" in this context means the conditions of the reference point …

Several new HPCs are already using AMD [1] and that trend will probably continue if AMD continues to put out competitive products. [1] See the Top 500 list that, by my count, has 2…

Seaborn is based on matplotlib and has basically the same semantics of matplotlib with better styling defaults and a wider API for different plots. For a ggplot grammar-of-graphics…

At least for the AR-15 platform (the weapons pictured in the article), only the part that bears the serial number is regulated. Everything else can be bought freely and legally. Fo…

A project I work on has a `RELEASING.rst` in the repo, which I include in the docs [1]. It contains a checklist of steps with the code. The actual deployment is automated with a Gi…

The abstract of that paper includes: > Due to the inhibition of van der Waals adhesion at the liquid interface, the electrode was remarkably resistant to deactivation via coking ca…

I use Goodreads, but only like a letterboxd for books. Anyone have a recommendation of something with a better experience than goodreads where I can track my read, reading and want…

Think of it from the scientist’s perspective. You can’t ignore the work in journals who have business models and policies you do not agree with. Pretending research doesn’t exist s…

> Will we reach a point where an M1-like full-desktop SOC includes enough processing, storage and graphics power that it satisfies any user's desktop/laptop needs? I doubt it. It u…

Daniele Procida already has a great Write the Docs talk on this subject already. It is indeed a fantastic talk. https://youtu.be/qK-AnF5FJTs

This is the flipped classroom model. Definitely not widespread, but it’s gaining popularity, even in universities. The system is slow to change.

The first paragraph in the "Isolation of single emitters in silicon" section of the scientific paper[1] says that they "implanted" carbon ions into silicon. The rest of the paper d…

Maybe "overparticular"

This is definitely compelling. I’m still going to try holding out until the Apple Silicon 16”, but my computer is more and more reminding me how long ago 2015 was.

Even though SymPy is written in Python, there are several options to go much faster. The simplest is when actually using the symbolic expression to do some calculation. For that Sy…

You can actually put those expressions in your format() into the f-string braces, no escaping required.

Software could totally do this. A common trick to check yourself is to set a timer for every $x minutes or so [1] and then when the timer goes off see what you are doing. Software …

The price of the Wirecutter’s #1 recommended forehead/ear thermometer on Amazon has changed from $30 between 2016 and February 2020 to $100 since February. https://camelcamelcamel.…

What are you using now? I've been using TiddlyWiki for almost a year. Most of my 400 Tiddlers are either code snippets with explanations or an probably ~2 paragraphs of text on ave…

This is how some of the coding boot camps like Lambda School work.

LiquidText on iOS seems to enable pulling out images, snippets, etc. as the author seems to want. Not sure what happens when that app eventually dies thought.