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I rushed mine, to the extent that my supervisor mentioned it to me a few years later... it was a reflection of my state of mind at the time, exhausted and overwhelmed.. if I ever g…

somewhat of an aside, but really enjoyed the scrolling dynamic on this site

despite having a phd in nonlinear dynamics, I struggle to wrap my head around most of this stuff... but I always found is deeply fascinating. In one system I studied we had a seque…

the extensibility of matplotlib is simply incredible to me. I've always found the main limiting factor to be my imagination, once I wrap my head around what I want a plot to look l…

exact analytical solutions are nice as a check against any numerical solutions imo. (checking the same calculations in multiple ways is handy for error catching ime)

because it's really hard, and they need to publish :) -- phd in physics

Having spent ~6 years studying nonlinear laser dynamics, it always amuses me to see bifurcation theory pop up on HN. https://neuronaldynamics.epfl.ch/online/Ch4.S4.html A fantastic…

doing the math is seldom enough ;) *KE == kinetic energy kinetic energy: "energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to…

anonymous messages are sometimes very powerful, measurements that are easy to make are not necessarily the right ones to make sometimes you get snowed in, often you get snowed unde…

a spectacularly unbiased example, multiple measurements, experimental and simulated, of the same thing :) http://imgur.com/a/m2GRZ

a book, with some strikingly similar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_Larry

Using a term like nonlinear science is like referring to the bulk of zoology as the study of non-elephant animals. — Stanislaw Ulam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system

I think this is the paper, which oddly isn't linked in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01618

matplotlib. at times it can be tiresome, given the multitude of ways it's possible to do things, but it's always possible

I've only made two submissions. By some odd coincidence both made it to #1, which has scared me off making any further submissions for fear of ruining my perfect score! :D

As an Irish citizen I was wondering which countries our British counterparts could get to that we couldn't :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Visa_req... https:…

I'm a physicist (semiconductor lasers), now doing tech support, it's a big change for me, but so far it's been great

I started work at google pretty recently, and expressed an interest in working on a particular project. I made some notes about some of my ideas, and was putting some stuff togethe…

Another vote for firefox OS here, I definitely think they're making a better effort than most in this space. The fact that firefox is targeting entry level devices in a serious way…

agreed, this is exactly the sort of thing for loops in shell are useful for.. incidentally, in zsh you can do this with for f (*.md) pandoc $f --to html > $f:r.html personally I fi…

> What's more, if I record a macro and run it, then realize after it that I want to do a small addition, I have to go through all the "setup" steps again - go back to the start, re…

http://i.imgur.com/Ueqq29i.png is what my current vimperator browsing window looks like (ff27), the new changes make this very difficult to replicate via changes to userChrome.css,…

the output of htop is almost distinguishable here http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/04/08/business/Vulnerabl... "Companies scrambling to seal up their systems from hackers and go…

I use as my Easymotion leader.. https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion it's well worth a look, gives you super quick fine grained movement similarly inoremap jj to take you fro…

and another reason to use zsh is the incredibly nice looping syntax, for example, this is the same as for fic (**/*(.)) doSomethingWith $fic I find the fact that it fits in a singl…