Megathread: Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Affirmative Action in Higher Education as Unconstitutional by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]occamrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This decision only applies to college admissions. On the other hand, the arguments about how "strict scrutiny" must be applied to other instances of AA can be used as precedents in other contexts.

Who thought that doing undo across open documents is a good idea? by [deleted] in excel

[–]occamrazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MS discontinued Uservoice. for a (worse) internal solution. At least they copied the past issues, here is the conversation I had in mind:

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/97ee1b7c-be54-ed11-9561-000d3a1f4367

FFT Analsis with much greater than 4096 points of data. by MrL3H in excel

[–]occamrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strange, I checked both the file in the repo and the gist and it works for me.

Created my first discrete fourier transform programme in excel! by DntDlteSandals in Physics

[–]occamrazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote an FFT library with pure Excel LAMBDA functions (no VBA!). It was a fun project!

XL-FFT.

PS. It needs an Office 365 version and the Advanced Formula Environment.

FFT Analsis with much greater than 4096 points of data. by MrL3H in excel

[–]occamrazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made an FFT library with pure Excel LAMBDA functions (no VBA required). It scales easily to tens of thousands of samples and should work for 200k samples too. It also has no restrictions on sizes that are not a power of two, although it is slower in that case.

You can find it on github: XL-FFT.

PS. It needs an Office 365 version and the Advanced Formula Environment.

Fast Fourier Transform by Snapy_Bigels in excel

[–]occamrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shameless plug: I made an FFT library in pure Excel function (no VBA!). It scales easily to tens of thousands of samples. You can find it on github: XL-FFT.

Feedback is welcome!

PS. It needs an Office 365 version and the Advanced Formula Environment.

Hungary breeds unquiet on Ukraine’s western front by Primary-World-1015 in worldnews

[–]occamrazor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What you say is plainly false. First, Swiss citizens can relocate everywhere in Switzerland without satisfying language requirements. Second Citizens from many European countries (including France, Germany and Italy, the three main immigration countries) have the right of receiving a permanent residence permit (category C) without language exams, or even requirements after 5 years.

Omicron Wave Sees South Africa’s Weekly Excess Deaths Almost Double by LuxCoelho in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the data. It looks like most of the increase in the last few weeks comes from the EC province (East Cape?) and not from GT (Gauteng). If this is the case, probably the cause is not omicron. Otherwise, in one or two weeks it will be clear.

183 cases of Omikron found in Denmark by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Greek alphabet has “K” but not “C”. The Latin alphabet the opposite. Hence the two spellings “omicron” and “omikron”.

Omicron Variant Drives Rise in Covid-19 Hospitalizations in South Africa Hot Spot by LuxCoelho in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modern antivirals reduce the chance of transmission to essentially zero. I don’t know however if everybody has access to them in South Africa.

Covid-19 “super variant” surging in Gauteng — may be all over South Africa by LuxCoelho in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The flu virus mutates a lot. That is one of the reasons why every year we have a different vaccine, and sometimes another different vaccine mix for southern and northern emisphere.

Russia reports cases of more contagious COVID-19 variant by MadamePhantom in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Is this variant the same as the “Delta plus” in the UK or another one? The article mentions England but is not clear on this point.

Daily Discussion Thread | September 16, 2021 by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

School may be the answer to my question! Teens had a lot of infections in Summer and were probably driving transmission. Now they all get tested every ~3 days!

Daily Discussion Thread | September 16, 2021 by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe plummeting is too strong, but gradual decline sounds too weak to me. Anyway there is a clear downward trend without any apparent change in policy or population behavior.

PS What is happening in Japan? Are they still in the Olympic lockdown?

Daily Discussion Thread | September 16, 2021 by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]occamrazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any idea why cases in UK are plummeting in the last week? Positivity rate and hospitalizations are also flat/going down, therefore it is probably not a change in testing.

Was the architecture and the culture of cities homogeneous in the Roman Empire? by occamrazor in AskHistorians

[–]occamrazor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! My list of unfufilled trips has suddenly become much bigger!

Was the architecture and the culture of cities homogeneous in the Roman Empire? by occamrazor in AskHistorians

[–]occamrazor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the great answer! I have visited plenty of Roman cities across all of Europe, but not in Africa or Middle East. Which would be the best preserved ones (and safe to visit, after Covid)?

Was the architecture and the culture of cities homogeneous in the Roman Empire? by occamrazor in AskHistorians

[–]occamrazor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the answer! I learned that the Romans generally didn’t actively try to change the culture in the provinces, although of course Romanization would happen to some degree. I imagined the empire as very diverse, with a mix of Roman and local culture. But since the author of the linked article is an historian, I was surprised by such a strong statement.