maths in alice
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> What's that like? I've been told it's extremely rigorous, but is there consistency?
Well its extremely rigorous. I was consistently grilled for up to 45mins by two different people, the second one repeated questions that the first one had... [
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6 days ago
I know that the plural of anecdote is not data but I`ve heard one too many border crossing anecdotes as of this one. This shit just became data. My chances of getting beaten and arrested while crossing the border are now unacceptably high for me to... [
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3d mandelbrot
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2 weeks ago
sorta related: I just found out that the spanish slang for dictionary (in mexico ) is 'tumbaburros' , suggesting the book is large enough to knock a donkey over.... [
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The alternative term that I think fits very well is STARRED (with a star?), like gmail. It's safely ambiguous, and no baggage of the favourites. [
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I'm Indian, and while I find it mildly amusing, I don't find it offensive. Worn by anyone. But I guess it's a whole different ball game there in the US.... [
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This is the first time that traumatic insemination has been shown to occur in spiders. I attended a talk given by this guy at the last international arachnology conference, and it caused quite a stir.... [
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2 months ago
I recommend the spider plates in the Biolgia Centrali Americana as well. (for example: this page) [
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2 months ago
High Jump Innovator
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3 months ago
I use Scrivener for writing papers. You can import pdfs as well as clippings from webpages. You can use endnote's temporary citations, and then when exported to Word or something, they can then be converted to proper citations and build a... [
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3 months ago
One of the authors of the linked paper was my PhD thesis supervisor. Anyway, I study orb-webs and I find that there is quite a bit of variation, but it depends on what you measure. In nature, the web size for example is affected by the size of the... [
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3 months ago
Insert 'Large ship slow turn' phrase here.
I would insert it myself, if I could just remember how it went [
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4 months ago
> Why aren't there lists like
Heh. Reminded me of a passage from Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler:
"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual... [
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4 months ago
> And last weekend, I recall clueless CNN desk jockeys...
I was just thinking that Iran coverage is going to drop off dramatically from CNN. [
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5 months ago
Ever since I moved to Mexico 8 months ago, the crazy kid who lives upstairs seemed to have recently discovered MJ and has been playing MJ incessantly at real loud volumes. At first it was annoying, and then distracting, and now I'm just resigned to... [
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5 months ago
I'm excited by this, because I hope that there will be renewed interest in trains in Mexico. Far fetched, I know. But here the buses compete with the planes, so I'm not too hopeful.... [
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6 months ago
The holy man's middle name is And?
It's a pun: 've' in hebrew is 'and'. The guy's name is David VeMoshe [
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6 months ago
> Bing gave me a link to some spam-trap site. The Mexican embassy website is nowhere on the page.
Heh. that's weird. I tried that same search (from Mexico) and it gave me the right link as the top result. See there's your problem, Vacapinta,... [
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6 months ago
I almost broke up with my mexican girl friend (now fiancee) over this issue. I'm Indian and there were similar differences. What I feel is essential is that I needed to feel that my gf would have my back when it came to cultural things things that I... [
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8 months ago
Well just in case the bride is Indian, this is absolutely normal. In fact, in India you can buy special envelopes for the express purpose of gifting money at weddings.... [
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