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The README is in the header file (picophysics.h)

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The repository hasn't been made public yet it seems.

What field are you in that you'd actually wait two years, rather than retract your submission and go somewhere else?

Their "technical validation (CFD)" document looks like AI slop...

Rejections from journals are not uncommon and sometimes it's for somewhat questionable reasons. Uploading the manuscript to a preprint server and/or submitting to another journal, …

> “It’s an unusual way of doing things,” says Kerstin Göpfrich, a synthetic biologist at Heidelberg University. That's being kind; it's a complete overreaction, simply put.

> Yes 1-based indexing is a mistake. It leads to significantly less elegant code - especially for generic code - and is no harder to understand than 1-based indexing for people cap…

The approach could be helpful for searching though large 3D model libraries like GrabCAD for some visual placeholder part by just describing it. The generality of the part descript…

This is a about Groq, not Grok (Musk's chatbot).

Comments on the claims made by Penn State's PR department in "Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities" > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

Meh, depends what's the goal. Exceeding predicted performance is not a screw up, it's just providing a minimum guaranteed performance aka playing it safe (under promise, over deliv…

Depends if you make overly conservative assumptions in your modeling...

Using greek symbols as public-facing function arguments, etc. is definitely not recommended, and not that common (at least in my experience). It's best used for internal calculatio…

Never thought I'd see the name LimeWire again, wow

Looking at interview footage of Stockton Rush, it seems he really wanted to be a disruptor and accomplish something which everyone else (i.e., experts) deemed impossible. He though…

The Netflix documentary has some extra interviews with employees, clients, etc. which are interesting. (1hr 51min runtime though)