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by aatish 14y ago
That sums it up pretty well.
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by aatish 14y ago
Hi. I'm the author of the post. I realize that it's a somewhat challenging read, at least compared to my usual style, but my goal was to stay as true to the physics as possible. I was a little disappointed with some of the popular science c
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Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero(empiricalzeal.com)
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by aatish 14y ago
Well, if fakers make the effort to do the math (and physics), more power to them. It just makes this kind of video forensics a more interesting challenge. :) Here's another example of a physics based take-down (by Rhett Allain) of that eagl
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by aatish 14y ago
haha - the 32mph was originally 14.4 m/s. Given that the top story here today is a white house petition to adopt the metric system in the US, I should know my audience better :)
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by aatish 14y ago
Hi- I'm the author of the piece (on twitter at @aatishb) and am happy to field questions on the post. Do people accept that the video isn't faked? The data isn't perfect, but it was good enough to convince me that the video is real. Here's
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The Physics of that 'Kickalicious' Kick(empiricalzeal.com)
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by aatish 14y ago
Nice! That's a really interesting and relevant example.
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by aatish 14y ago
The responses below are correct - the analysis in the article is about a smaller region of London, that essentially falls inside the large peak in the plot. I wasn't deliberately avoiding this point, it's just that the article was getting l
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by aatish 14y ago
Posted this here because I thought it would interest the Hacker News community. I argue that the SS category rating is not a good indicator of a tropical storm or hurricane's true destructive potential. Instead, we should use measures like
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Taking the true measure of a storm, with physics.(empiricalzeal.com)
2 points by aatish 14y ago|1 comments