David Z

Sunnyvale, CA, United States

https://www.ellipsix.net

I'm a software engineer at SoundHound, and a former theoretical physicist.

You can email me at [email protected] for matters which cannot be handled on the site. (I do not answer questions by email which could be posted on the site.)

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How do I find the package that provides a file?

package-management asked Jul 30, 2010 at 8:10

askubuntu.com

281 votes

What really allows airplanes to fly?

fluid-dynamics aerodynamics aircraft lift faq asked Nov 6, 2010 at 3:23

physics.stackexchange.com

257 votes

What are the use cases for different scoping constructs?

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What's the difference between package managers?

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Selecting distinct column values in SQLAlchemy/Elixir

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stackoverflow.com

71 votes

How do I take the FFT of unevenly spaced data?

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scicomp.stackexchange.com

67 votes

How to round floats to integers while preserving their sum?

algorithm language-agnostic rounding asked Apr 27, 2009 at 6:53

stackoverflow.com

66 votes

Can we have cross-site badges?

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58 votes

Why doesn't induction extend to infinity? (re: Fourier series)

real-analysis induction asked Jan 11, 2012 at 8:16

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