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Resolving the gravitational redshift across a millimetre-scale atomic sample(nature.com)
31 points by ISL 5y ago|7 comments
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by ISL 5y ago
In a similar spirit: figure out why the faculty gave you specific homework. Most faculty think hard about which problems to assign. It isn't busy-work. There is a person on the other side of the problem-set/exam/essay, they
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by ISL 5y ago
Please submit your property taxes through our convenient online filing portal.
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Worldle(worldle.teuteuf.fr)
4 points by ISL 5y ago|0 comments
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by ISL 5y ago
There is a big difference between "the car can handle it" and unsafe. For an extreme example, see: School Zones.
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by ISL 5y ago
Few, if any. They are a really good idea in so many ways, but Americans regard speed cameras of all sorts as unsporting and invasive. I used to feel the same way, until some combination of experience with traffic cameras in other countries
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by ISL 5y ago
A wise mentor once encouraged me, "Assume positive intent and ask lots of questions." That directive has served extremely well ever since.
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by ISL 5y ago
One thing that has helped to make progress against progressive supranuclear palsy, not as rare as KS, but still quite rare, is that it has properties that are ideal for testing potential Alzheimers drugs. PSP patients have anomalous quant
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by ISL 5y ago
It's not clickbait. I've been to oodles of talks on the problem. It has had special sessions at APS meetings and I've watched acquaintances and colleagues expend meaningful fractions of their careers attempting to resolve the
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by ISL 5y ago
Edit: This post was intended as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30209618 , presently below > The lead author, Dr. Craig Bennett, wanted to get something fresh, so he headed in to the grocery story firs
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by ISL 5y ago
On point 4: As a scientist who normally chafes at those prohibitions, I'll point out that responsibility for the consequences of ones' research is also important. For example, it is extremely easy, with both household and scientif
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by ISL 5y ago
As an admittedly-biased basic-researcher (who is no longer doing basic-research as a day-job in part due to constrained funding), the big lesson here is that funding basic research can yield very large returns. There will always be people a
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by ISL 5y ago
I was surprised to see that, too. It is a rare combination, perhaps a hopeful one if there are problems that funding agencies in both countries see as important-enough to fund alongside their frequently-presumed competitor. However, a close
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by ISL 5y ago
Think of pulsars, in this context, as faraway precise clocks that chirp out a regular sequence of pulses [1]. We don't get to pick where they are, or how far away they are, but they're scattered all over the sky. A gravitational
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by ISL 5y ago
Once one sees that mechanism, it cannot be forgotten. Wide knowledge of the technique is among Wordle's gifts to the world.
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by ISL 5y ago
I'd hesitate to presume that what worked for Warp Speed would work in a non-crisis situation. With our early-pandemic PPE-relief efforts, we had endless advantages that most projects don't have: almost-unlimited supply of high-ski
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by ISL 5y ago
He can clearly document harms, too. A top-flight research group takes a lifetime, reputation, and resources to assemble.
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by ISL 5y ago
It is a smart way to test. If it doesn't work, you still have another engine backed by roughly a century of experience.
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JWST Imaged from Earth(twitter.com)
7 points by ISL 5y ago|0 comments
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by ISL 5y ago
Making it illegal to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre has its merits.
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by ISL 5y ago
I'm extra confused, as I'd interpreted "Ships from and sold by Amazon" as "Amazon supplied the goods and will vouch for their validity", whereas "Sold by ISL" would have meant that ISL was on the ulti
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by ISL 5y ago
It is my impression that at least some librarians are adamant about not storing lists of titles borrowed by a single individual.
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by ISL 5y ago
I've had some success with, "Okay, well what can we talk about without the NDA?" NDAs are hard; there are good reasons for them, but they are too-easily proffered and too-often signed. Where possible, they are far more humane
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by ISL 5y ago
I spent quite a while looking for a link from which to git-clone and never found one. It is advertised as We’ve created a crowd-sourced, open-source standard NDA that companies can adopt as their own. The desire to trademark the name make
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by ISL 5y ago
Rapid tests need to be on-hand prior to the time that you need them.
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by ISL 5y ago
Not always -- sometimes they're paid for by devaluing everyone's currency.
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by ISL 5y ago
My subconscious' instant reaction was to parse the headline as referring to Firefly's Badger and think, "Oh, no! It's probably going to go sideways...." I sincerely do hope that the badger had a very fine hat.
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by ISL 5y ago
Congressional pensions: https://foxx.house.gov/legislation/fact-or-fiction-members-a... Looks like one must serve at least 5 yr to get them (so House members aren't automatically in, but Senators are).
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by ISL 5y ago
Totally agreed for the House. There is an outstanding amendment from 1789 that would apportion one representative for every 50,000 voters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...
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by ISL 5y ago
Members of Congress make ~$174k/yr. [1] It will be an unpopular opinion, but I believe that we should pay better (and demand better) for a job with that much responsibility. Otherwise, a congressperson will be forever tempted to ali

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