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by Steuard 13y ago
It looks like the original research paper that this press release is talking about is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6850 The paper mentioned in the press release that it's directly building on (by Jensen and Kar
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by Steuard 13y ago
That's a really good point. Rats. So only if they go back to advertising health information after FDA approval will we be able to be confident that their actual genotype results meet FDA standards ( as well as their interpretive text)
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by Steuard 13y ago
We can learn a bit more about this dispute from how 23andMe has responded here. Given that 23andMe is still willing to release their raw genotype results, it seems clear that the FDA isn't objecting to that level of their work. That&#x
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by Steuard 13y ago
Theory and experiment traditionally play a game of leapfrog over time. My impression has been that in superconductivity, the experiments have been ahead for years (possibly multiple decades). There are lots of "high temperature" s
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by Steuard 13y ago
This could be a really exciting development: a single model that explains multiple very different looking superconducting systems is exactly what everyone would love to see. That said, I'm cautious in getting too excited when I hear ab
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by Steuard 13y ago
That bit in the article made me furious . Edit: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's contact page is here: http://www.dccc.org/page/s/contact I tried calling them on the phone about this, but th
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by Steuard 13y ago
I never spent any time there, but it warms my heart to hear that alt.callahans is still alive. My impression of Usenet's death is closely related to your "hard to use" summary: it required people to install and configure a se
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by Steuard 13y ago
Oh, god, it was glorious. Or at least, a lot of parts of it were. I made good friends on the Tolkien newsgroups there, back when they were the place for discussions of his work (with multiple world-famous scholars taking part, and intense
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by Steuard 13y ago
I take it you're missing the 90s? (Alas, most of my Usenet usage was between 1994 and 2003.)
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by Steuard 13y ago
It's a beautifully done site, and I love the concept. I'm a little worried about it feeling fluffy in places: e.g. the monster group is a neat topic, but it's introduced in a fuzzy enough way that I'm not sure what peopl
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by Steuard 13y ago
I came here to say exactly that. Southwest feels reasonably mainstream to me these days. (And Spirit is terrible .)
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by Steuard 13y ago
Ah, I see: yeah, I've got 3rd party cookies disabled in Firefox, so that's presumably my problem. If there were a way to make an exception only for YouTube requesting a Google+ cookie, I'd do it. But I'm not willing to
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by Steuard 13y ago
So you've been able to figure out the cause of this? Is there a site out there that explains the details? (Not that an inability to comment on YouTube is much of a hardship, but it's occasionally frustrating.)
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by Steuard 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer or any sort of expert on copyright law, and in particular, I know that I can't comment on things like whether there's a minimum level of creative effort necessary to merit copyright. That said, my understandi
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by Steuard 13y ago
You're kidding, right? (Just in case you aren't: no, it's emphatically not.)
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by Steuard 13y ago
But Zhang was teaching as a adjunct (or at least, a non-tenure-track instructor) before he made this breakthrough and skyrocketed (apparently) to full professor. Adjuncts generally have enormously less time for research than full time pro
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by Steuard 13y ago
I completely agree that it suggests that we have overlooked something in the underlying state. However, if you take a course in quantum mechanics that includes a detailed mathematical discussion of the Bell inequalities (for instance), yo
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by Steuard 13y ago
The (Heisenberg) uncertainty is a specific, computable quantity associated with the expectation value of an operator for a given quantum state. If that state is an eigenstate of the operator to be measured, the uncertainty is exactly zero.
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by Steuard 13y ago
On the first day of my upper level quantum mechanics class, I discuss exactly the sort of systems that you've asked about here. Unfortunately, it turns out that "common sense" is not in fact an accurate guide to the behavior
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by Steuard 13y ago
Like so many things, the answer to this question depends on what exactly you mean by it. There are certainly philosophical games you can play to show that either answer is "possible": brains in a jar, malicious trickster deities,
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by Steuard 13y ago
I see your point, but I see a world of difference between "good at math" as you've used it here and as it's used in the article. When you (or I) hear "I'm not good at math", you presumably take that to mea
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by Steuard 13y ago
As I understand this article (and my long-past reading of the spec), the only thing in the spec that talks about visual angle is the part about defining the size of one reference pixel. That's a very small angle, and at those sizes a
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by Steuard 13y ago
I always guessed that they wanted something around 10 minutes, but they wanted more than one visible digit to change each time to make it more obvious that time had passed. (That is, a sleepy person might be more likely to mistake "7:2
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by Steuard 13y ago
On my (older) Prius, when I insert my mystical key fob into the dashboard and turn on the car, I can't remove it until I've turned the power off: it's held physically in the slot. (I haven't tried yanking hard.) As far a
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by Steuard 13y ago
We could at least preserve raw knowledge , though. "Most diseases are caused by germs, so wash your hands" could save countless lives. And some basic notions of things like force and energy could enable machines to make peoples
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by Steuard 13y ago
Wow, do I disagree. I use version control (hg) for solo writing, and I'd love to use it for collaboration if I didn't think it would be an uphill slog to convince my coauthors to learn it too.
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by Steuard 13y ago
Per user salt means that an attacker who has stolen the password db can't crack one password and unlock 100 accounts because they all have the same password hash. That is the only point of a salt it serves no other purpose. I wouldn&
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by Steuard 13y ago
Isn't that still an issue for this new protocol? My skim through the site gave me the impression that this system essentially addresses messages to a specific RSA signing identity. I can just as easily choose to do that over SMTP, righ
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by Steuard 13y ago
I've read chunks of the site, but I'm still not entirely clear on what advantage this scheme has over RSA encryption of standard SMTP mail (via PGP/MIME on the local machine, say). Is the main advantage that a given identity
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by Steuard 13y ago
I've always had the impression that the cash is the least important part of a Nobel prize. Even if you're being purely mercenary about it, Nobel laureates can probably get paid speaking engagements whenever they want. But it&#x2

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