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"Dude, You Stole My Article They say everyone's a critic, but in this case, the critic is everyone. Today in Slate, Jody Rosen uncovers what just might be "in purely statistical terms ... the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of American..." [
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7 hours ago
MeFi post:
"We're not supposed to get more than one injury a day. I usually get three or four."
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12 hours ago
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"They look like nursing scrubs, which are also a work uniform designed to get dirty, stand up to abuse, look clean the next day, be cheap to replace, etc...." [
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more than 12 hours ago
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"From this patent application:Depending on the type of tooth, a tooth weighs approximately between 0.510 g and 2,280 g and a front tooth weighs approximately 1,1277-1,1526 g and is in the studies determined in values of 1/1,000.000 g. The patent is..." [
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more than 12 hours ago
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"It's the digital encoding delay.
If you have old-fashioned analog telephones and newer digital (e.g. cordless) telephones on the same, you can see the same effect. Carry the digital handset to where the analog one is, make a call, and the same..." [
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Yesterday
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"Whenever you get confused about entropy, go back to what entropy means: it's the number of microscopic states your system has that look the same to your experiment. (More strictly, it's how many digits that number has, multiplied by some..." [
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3 days ago
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"If a burrito is not a sandwich, I don't think a pizza could be.
Not to overstate the value of legal opinions, but you might be interested to know that this sort of inane bullshit pointless argument has in the past led to Real Financial..." [
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4 days ago
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"It's important to remember that the unique feature of the LHC isn't the energy of the collisions: it's the production of large numbers of high-energy collisions in a small volume. There is a finite density of particles flying through interplanetary..." [
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4 days ago
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"Giant magnetoresistance was discovered in 1988, commercialized by about 1991, today ubiquitous. I remember hearing it said that this was the shortest discovery-to-market time for a natural phenomenon ever in history. So that sets a time scale for..." [
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4 days ago
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"skwt, I agree completely that Wikipedia's tendency to highlight its own weaknesses is one of its strongest points, as it encourages critical reading. I think Wikipedia's motto should be "because you can't believe anything else you read either...." [
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11 days ago
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"I've heard Metafilter is looking for food critic to discuss plates of beans." [
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13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"DU, it depends.
In fission and fusion reactions, most of the energy gets carried off by neutrons. If you want to use this energy to spin a steam turbine and make electricity, you have to stop the neutrons in something. Water is nice because (a)..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Bistle, The Light Fantastic, jedicus, Freen, kuujjuarapik, DU
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"What, failed to destroy the world? You've obviously never been to Albuquerque. They're making grand progress." [
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2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I think that I shall never see
a comment lovely as a tree
In my bonnet there's a bee
WHITELIST MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT" [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"When I took the English AP test in high school,
there was a poem about
a frog, whose stanzas had
short lines in the middle
and long lines at the beginning and at the end.
I found this structure amusing, and..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"The essential difference between batteries and capacitors is that batteries store energy in chemical bonds, while capacitors store energy in electric fields.
Capacitors can discharge quickly because miniscule changes in the geometry of a..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"4chan is quaint in the same way as that guy who shows you he's wearing nothing under his trench coat." [
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4 weeks ago
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"Related question:
If you are travelling in a moving car and stomp on the brakes, all of the loose items in the car (that book on the passenger seat, and the unbelted passenger holding it) continue to move forward at the original velocity until..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"re-railing, a compromise might be anchors at the top of every 100th comment or so, like comments: first -- 100 -- 200 -- 300This wouldn't show up on short threads and would be helpful on long ones...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Meatbomb
Last month
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"From 4±2 (assuming counting statistics) to 17±4 with not other population changes is a spike at about the 3σ level. Certainly suggestive of something other than ordinary statistical fluctuations, as borne out by the existence of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last month
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"You can never trust the last digit on a digital display: there is always some Schmitt triggering that makes it round off incorrectly rather than flicker. (Or it flickers, in which case you have to know something about the noise anyway.) The fact..." [
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Last month
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"20,000 Ask Metafilter posts using the 150 most common tags [quick-n-dirty self link, 2.5MB]" [
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Last month
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"I find myself attracted to the idea of tag clouds because the text does double duty. But the idea doesn't work for a dataset as rich as the Metafilter tag database because the text does only double duty. If you compare the tag clouds for Metafilter..." [
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Last month
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"Shower drains, like other household drains, have water-filled U sections to keep the sewer gas out of your house. If you see water but no mouse, he is either drowned in the elbow or trapped between one wet place and another. If he's alive, a rapid..." [
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Last month
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"Metafilter: random people blogging about anything they want, except themselves or their friends.
How anyone shows such restraint may be the Web's greatest mystery...." [
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Last month
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"If above-ground nuclear explosions make the earth uninhabitable for people, it won't be due to 14C activity. I'll assume your question is about the welfare of people who don't die when the bombs knock their houses over.
People in the region..." [
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Last month
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"You should ask the police department that will arrest your shoplifters." [
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Last month
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"Since I can't specify it in my profile, I'd like to you know that my birthday is on the 22d of something." [
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Last month
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"I have heard the term "male sexual hair" used to describe the hair men have that women don't, especially in places where it evolves throughout life: on the chin, in the nose, in the ears. But wow, what a worthless search phrase...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pointystick
2 months ago
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"Seconding source control. I have been switching from subversion to git, and I love! how easy importing a project is:$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ git add file*
$ git status
# perfectly sensible status message
$ git..." [
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2 months ago
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"Mine do mostly, but not entirely.
Storytimefilter: in 1957, just after the discovery of parity nonconservation, Norman Ramsey and some other giant of physics happened to drive past a farm with a full pigpen. They exchanged a look and got out of..." [
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2 months ago
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"ssh host -t screen -xRe^oo will connect you to a persistent session, creating one if it doesn't exist, not knocking you off if you're connected from elsewhere.
I add the e^oo because screen's default command key is something really annoying...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by trim17
2 months ago
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"Edward Tufte. Buy all four books.
So far, everyone I have loaned these books to has come back after devouring them over the weekend to show me the nifty and insightful visualization they've made that has solved some longstanding problem of theirs...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limon
2 months ago
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"A google search for "magnetized silverware restaurant" turns up US Patent 6667689,
"A silverware detector for detecting magnetized silverware in refuse ..." Perhaps your silverware was mechanically rescued from the trash...." [
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2 months ago
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"I'm a nuclear physicist and I think the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is silly. This NYT article, which I linked to a month ago in another many-worlds question, basically elaborates on your observation that "it wouldn't be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"moift and stubby phillips, if the tag closer does enough pattern matching to not emit </img> or </br>, it does enough pattern matching to not emit </li>. I guess that's also stateless.
Thank you for your attention to this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stubby phillips
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to call attention
to the elegant whitespace
in this comment.
Or bluespace, perhaps." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agenais
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"M-x grand-theft-auto
I am the carjacker. Please, describe your problems. Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.
I need more adventure in my life
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by morganw
3 months ago
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"Another post today led me to play with Processing, which looks neat.
I've gotten lots of mileage from Matlab doing "plot(foo); pause; plot(foo2);" but that only counts as animation if you squint just right...." [
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3 months ago
