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Comment #48959344
I think a relatively simple explanation is that on one hand mercury is liquid due to its closed-shell (a bit "noble-gas-like") electron configuration: [Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s2 and that i…
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Comment #38948994
What kind of emacs distribution is on the screenshot?
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Comment #36003611
The 128 bit arithmetic part is really interesting. I wonder whether they used libquadmath and whether they needed to implement any extra funcitons beyond what’s available there.
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Comment #35133066
In the process of “shut up and calculate” (SUAC) you often come upon much deeper insights about the involved processes and quantities than you ever could with wordy and “understand…
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Comment #33814079
I don’t have full explanation of the connection that would be satisfying. However, I think it mainly comes down to symmetry group of the spinors and their 720 degrees symmetry. It …
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Comment #33480277
I find Julia’s Pluto to be reasonably close alternative. Of course it lacks many features, but plugins systems and overall architecture gives hope for possible extension to include…
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Comment #33480066
This is of course very true but doesn’t take into account invention of computer that is relatively recent. Since it in principle never makes mistakes (in practice there are of cour…
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Comment #31966948
Chess programming is fascinating but it seems for me that it has somewhat stalled in creativity in terms of classical (non DNN) engines. They all seem to use improved versions of m…
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Comment #31543494
Wow, thanks! I had no idea it existed. I’ve searched for something like it not that long ago.
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Comment #31543332
Mathpix is a great product that perfectly fills its niche and I’m very happy it exists. I wish some open source alternative existed. Even much less accurate would be quite useful. …
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Comment #30831350
Yes! Those are exactly some of the alternative frameworks I had in mind. Also things like using differential algebra instead of classical epsilon-delta analysis and using Liouville…
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Comment #30829161
I absoultely admire creativity and skills it takes to pursue developement of novel branch/framework of mathematics like this Super Calculus. I think that such original thinking at …
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Comment #29367391
In Europe this is required in European grants, but also in many country specific funding agencies as well. In 2018, 11 European research-funding organizations formed what is known …
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Comment #29198758
How I wish papers in science and engineering were written in such format (or were created with org-mode source files with code which one could download and play with), where we cou…
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Comment #27814862
Have you checked beorgapp? I find that it supports surprisingly large parts of org mode.
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Comment #27351808
I’m in similar situation. Didn’t upgrade from Mojave and like my system so far but wondering where to go from here. What competition would you recommend in terms of hardware+system…
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Comment #26089373
The difference is, that there's very advanced mathematics behind string theory and at leas that part can be checked/verified by independent researchers.
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Comment #25956594
But aren’t the shorts for like 140% of the GME stock? That means if everyone holds with prices, sooner or later the shorters will have to buy ALL that stock anyway at nearly any pr…
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Comment #25822851
I also like pipe syntax and I've found there is nice support for it in Julia. There are some nice packages to improve it over base [1]. Have you checked queryverse [2]? [1] https:/…
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Comment #25643666
What kind of alternative to maths and models, that has predictive (preferably in quantitative way) power, would you propose?