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Hey, I have my own chess with a textual UI which allows you to play against several beginner-level chess AI opponents: - Maia chess ( https://maiachess.com ), the human-like chess …

Years ago there was a thread like this one, and people suggested "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", just like they do here. So I tried that. Here's my account; I hope it wil…

For those of us that don't use Lisp (or Emacs+SLIME), and are stuck with Python/Julia/Lua/etc and Vim may I give a practical recommendation? The Vim-Slime plugin [1] is a half-dece…

Those gaps immediately catch your eye, don't they? Seeing them and thinking "what if there's something we are missing" is exactly what many particle physicists also think. This is …

> verified the existence of the Higgs As a related tangent: we have verified the existence of the Higgs, but only partially. What was so far measured was the interaction strength b…

I think the idea that scientific code should be judged by the same standards as production code is a bit unfair. The point when the code works the first time is when an industry pr…

An interesting concern is that there often is no single piece of code that has produced the results of a given paper. Often it is a mixture of different (and evolving) versions of …

As one point of comparison, SymPy is comically slow compared to Sage. This is mostly because SymPy is purely Python; Sage on the other hand uses its own derivative of GiNaC [1], Py…

LEP was annihilating electrons with positrons; LHC does not, as it only accelerates protons. FCC will have the option to do both: the plan includes two separate pipes in the same t…

I am continuously surprised by the amount of work zig committers manage to put out every release. It is actually inspiring. How do they get to appear so productive? Anyway, here's …

From just glancing at a few articles, this site is a treasure trove of references to highly readable explanations on a variety of fairly advanced topics. In fact, just the links to…

Scientific Linux 6.10 has make 3.81, CentOS 7.7 has 3.82. These long-term-support distros have old software by their nature, and sometimes you're just stuck with one of them unfort…

I have used this in one of my projects, but in the end had to abandon it: the problem is that Guile itself requires GNU make during build, which creates a circular dependency, and …

> So what are they gonna do for 25 years? Run 2 of the LHC ended in 2018. Currently the experimentalists are busy analyzing that data, and the theoreticians are busy improving the …

So, yes, aside from the discovery of neutrino mass there was no "fundamental" progress since the Standard Model -- as in, all the effects we see in current experiments are accounte…

Is this a US thing? In Ukraine, no-one is weird. No-one is a geek, or a nerd -- there aren't even equivalent words in our language. Nobody thinks less of you if you're smart, shy, …

If you'll read the paper itself [1], you'll see that the author takes well known equations, replaces some constants with functions of time and tries to draw conclusions from there.…

Aside from the license issue, it also helps that the guy who maintains Sendmail in the FreeBSD sources is Gregory Neil Shapiro, vice president and CTO of Sendmail Inc.

Difficult, but not impossible. Qi and Typed Scheme are two examples.

What about kelvin hobles?

"Hooker news" is obviously a made up example. A real example would be "kelvin hobles". Google correctly guesses "calvin (and) hobbes", DDG and Bing do not.

I've been using DDG since the new privacy policy. There are two points I frequently bump into: 1. DDG has a spellchecker, but not a good one. For example, DDG correctly guesses "hc…

Does anyone have an insight as to why Google Trends [1] show that FreeBSD is more searched for in Russia and Ukraine than e.g. in US? [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=freebsd

> If you ever got to being a candidate for, say, a national senior-school physics competition, you'd be transferred to region's best teachers. They would train you like a circus do…

> Bigloo, Chicken, and some others even have hygienic macros off by default due to the overhead, and recommend that you use define-macro whenever possible. Not anymore for Chicken!…