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As a few other people have mentioned, I find R to be the easiest tool for this job, specifically the forecast package [0]. I had to use this package for an applied econometrics cou…

McMaster-Carr is your friend here. I used it use it a lot for robotics club in high school. It has a clear interface that makes it easy to find the exact parts you need

Does this not imply that they are satisfied with their work for largely social, extrinsic reasons (as opposed to intrinsic ones)? Cal seems to argue that people can only be most sa…

They should have used pykrete :) [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

I really don't know, but my guess would be that in mathematics particular symbols denote particular meanings depending on the shape of / decorations on the character. Big g is diff…

Fraktur is used in mathematics, chiefly when discussing/denoting Lie groups. I've listed some sources but you can probably Google for more. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktu…

Press and hold space. You're welcome ^_^

Nicotine is also an acetylcholinergic stimulant, meaning it aids in the quickness of thought [0]. By removing this from your stack you probably depressed your acetylcholine for a w…

The mental clarity comes from adrenaline. When you fast your body slowly uses up its glycogen store and releases adrenaline to compensate. Presumably it does so in order to keep yo…

There is the real issue of people holding onto illiquid assets which are difficult to monetize. E.g, the phrase "land rich, cash poor" comes to mind. Selling off small portions of …

The problem here is that when an "investor" "earns" a rate of return due to capital gains, we ought to recognize that these gains are not due to capital performing useful work (e.g…

I spent a lot of time in New England. There, it tends to be all municipalities are legally designated towns, and if the town has a certain minimum population, it can choose to reor…

This reminds me of many of the issues with laissez-faire capitalism: perfectly competitive markets tend to consolidate, as less efficient participants drop out of the market. Also,…

Of course the public application could just scrape Facebook, as the Supreme Court has ruled that webscraping is not illegal (well, at least in the United States). [0] [0] https://w…

Now I just need a TV-B-Gone on my F-91W! https://learn.adafruit.com/tv-b-gone-kit

While it does seem useful, I’d be curious of the security implications; does wearing such a thing on your wrist make it easy for others to scan your credentials? I’m not incredibly…

It’s nice to know all those Casio watches I’ve been wearing for years and years probably have lead exposed on them :/

You mean something like this [0]? You could use this to trick your computer/phone into using the audio jack for its microphone, but since the mic-lock passes no usable signal, you'…

Perhaps I am missing something, but the use of dimensionality in this article seems a bit overblown. The article says that a digraph meant to represent a rat brain formed 8-cliques…

> Most Americans don't continue to work for status—they continue to work to eat. I was speaking with regards to American society under UBI, not the current day.

This reminds me of Scott's post over at Slate Star Codex about Moloch [0]. The issue here isn't so much about _realizing_ the futility in pegging one's happiness to one's profitabi…