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“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said Marcus Spradlin, a physicist at Brown University who has been picking up the new tools of surfaceology. “There’s an exponential compactification in information.” Carolina Figueiredo, a graduate student at Princeton University, noticed a striking coincidence where three […]
PS Photography | Kyley WarrenPS Photography | Kyley Warren While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Before my recent trip to Iceland, I had to complete one very […]
Ben‘s web firm took on a new client, and they’re using a rather questionable shopping cart system. Like a lot of PHP web plugins, someone decided that they needed to “protect” their code by obfuscating it. Either that, they were obfuscating it out of shame, one or the other. if(!function_exists(“cache_exists”)) { eval(“fu” . “nction cach” […]
In a previous blog post, we’ve advertised the use of SQL EXISTS rather than COUNT(*) to check for existence of a value in SQL. I.e. to check if in the Sakila database, actors called WAHLBERG have played in any films, instead of: SELECT count(*) FROM actor a JOIN film_actor fa USING (actor_id) WHERE a.last_name = […]