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by Steuard 14y ago
Again, it's honestly not about the statistics. Perception is, in this case, the major issue. Women are constantly pushed to change their behavior because of the danger that they might be raped, and practically every time a woman's rape is r
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by Steuard 14y ago
Of course I'd be offended. Racist slurs cause actual harm (by supporting a longstanding environment of racist thought and action, and by causing distress in those who are targeted). To paraphrase a blog post I've recently read, impact is
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by Steuard 14y ago
Nobody overlooks that men can be victims, and it's every bit as tragic when they are as when women are. But it would take willful blindness to suggest that rape is not overwhelmingly often a thing that men do to women. That reality shapes
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by Steuard 14y ago
Look, you aren't right to excuse this shirt as legitimate humor any more than other folks are right to think that it was deliberately evil: it's an algorithm. Algorithms don't get to claim they're trying to provide some sort of social comme
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by Steuard 14y ago
The issue here, speaking as a physicist, is that the range over which significant information can be transmitted this way is very small, because the strength of the interaction is very weak. (If plants or bees routinely carried large char
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by Steuard 14y ago
Just to be clear, none of the people in this article are claiming that producing Higgs boson particles is going to cause collapse of a (hypothetical) false vacuum. They're using the new data about the Higgs to learn about the existing s
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by Steuard 14y ago
Sure, but dinosaurs were closer to birds (and thus also warm blooded, as I understand it).
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by Steuard 14y ago
As a mathematical physicist, it's fascinating to me that multiple people in this thread have reacted in this way. From a mathematician's point of view, there simply isn't such a thing as "deflecting blame" for errors in a proof: if someone
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by Steuard 14y ago
As I said below, my tentative assumption is that this article is a humor piece, not based on actual data.
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by Steuard 14y ago
This is really amusing, but I'm a little skeptical that it's based on real data. Where does this author get the data on "number in family" for each student presented on p.3, for instance? (The article would be fascinating if it were true,
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by Steuard 14y ago
The "popular fad" aspect of string theory has certainly lost much of its luster, no question, particularly as far as the general public is concerned. (The early excitement about the theory in the 1980's was apparently rather over the top.)
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by Steuard 14y ago
For what it's worth, I'd say that most of the warnings in this article don't really apply until after your first year or two (though it certainly varies a lot between different schools and different fields). If you're in your second semeste
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by Steuard 14y ago
Yeah, but I always played with number_pad enabled, so I never picked it up. (And then I wound up being incapable of playing the game sensibly on my laptop, alas: no diagonals.)
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by Steuard 14y ago
Or rather, after reading the article, some naked-image scanners to be removed, and then promptly replaced with others from a different company. No big news here, as far as I can tell.
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by Steuard 14y ago
Despite her tremendous insights, Noether suffered constant discrimination from the male-dominated academic society of her time: she was sometimes not even paid for her work, and when she fled Germany during WW2 the best position she could f
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by Steuard 14y ago
>> And the general expectation of some space time foam model is, that a,b should be roughly 1. > OK. Any idea how generic this expectation really is? I can't comment on this case specifically, but the entire notion of the "Planc
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by Steuard 14y ago
The average would be unchanged, but the whole point of their measurement is to measure the resulting statistical broadening of the event. That is, if the burst lasted 1 second (I made this number up!), you'd expect all photons to arrive w
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by Steuard 14y ago
Because JPEG files don't store a value for every pixel in the image: the information is encoded very differently. By good fortune, lossless 90 and 180 degree rotations are possible for the JPEG format, but only for certain image dimension
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by Steuard 14y ago
There's a lot of discussion of what's behind this issue in the Mozilla feature request at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298619 , and more at the corresponding webkit ( https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19688 ) and chro
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by Steuard 14y ago
But the shift on gay marriage has gained ground far more quickly than I recall anyone predicting. Even fifteen years ago, I doubt that most people (on any side of the issue) would have guessed we'd be remotely as far along as we are today.
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by Steuard 14y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say that it's a way of providing some level of protection while you're still on your way to the truly safe space. That is, if there's an explosion while everyone is still sprinting down the final hallway, the rubber w
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by Steuard 14y ago
Ok, so you look up the true signal for the actual recording time, subtract that from the recording, and then add the signal from the time you want it to look like. Voila: perfect bleed over.
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by Steuard 14y ago
As far as I'm concerned, it's not really a dilemma at all. Your second side is exactly the point: one part of any learning experience must, must be to develop your own skills. Learning collaboration is also tremendously valuable, but it c
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by Steuard 14y ago
I'm a college professor and a research scientist: I'd better know the answer! But I've never heard that plagiarism is a legal issue. Are there actual laws on the books that criminalize plagiarism of public domain material? (I live in the
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by Steuard 14y ago
[For the record, my intent wasn't that I'd pretend I was the original author, just that I'd sell the transcribed book. But running with your take on this anyway, and with the usual IANAL disclaimer:] Morally, you're certainly right: it's wr
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by Steuard 14y ago
I alluded to this in my initial comment: I find it hard to believe that Asimov's publishers would have agreed to a license deal that permitted public domain distribution of the derivative work. If this recording truly is public domain tod
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by Steuard 14y ago
This looks fantastic, but how on earth can it be listed here as public domain? The original novels are still very much in copyright, so I would think that a radio adaptation would be, too. (Even if the publisher licensed the rights to the B
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by Steuard 14y ago
There has been rather a lot of press along those lines, certainly. A substantial fraction of the "parameter space" for supersymmetry does seem to have been ruled out. But for better or worse, SUSY has a very large potential parameter spac
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by Steuard 14y ago
I've always had the impression that Nethack had pretty much the best attention to detail of any roguelike game, and the most thoroughly developed game world (though much of that only becomes apparent about halfway through the game). Rogue c
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by Steuard 14y ago
From close to the end of the article: "some of the games we have acquired (for instance Dwarf Fortress and EVE Online) take years and millions of people to manifest fully. To convey their experience, we will work with players and designers

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