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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm confused about the circular reference thing. Like, was there a reason to do the linear regression that way? Is there a secret story in a story where next week, in a spinoff / sequel episode, the data scientist responsible will
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by abeppu 3y ago
Oddly, search only covers brand names? https://www.shrinkflation.io/search?query=soap <- zero results https://www.shrinkflation.io/search?query=dove <- result has 'soap' in name
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by abeppu 3y ago
In fairness, in the list you link to, - Avro and Ion are the only two that are labeled Textual/Binary - They are in the same Big Data grouping - They both are schema-embedded, and support some rich nested datastructures, though they de
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by abeppu 3y ago
A different take on dining while discussing diverging perspectives, where apparently participants often find some common ground: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/dining-acros...
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Its probably staffing issues I would have expected that since (in my experience) these machines are generally run by a technician, and the MRI itself is relatively quick (a few minutes), and hospitals can bill insurance thousands for a
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by abeppu 3y ago
Thanks for pointing at that! But if the description is correct, > ZBO magnets allow practically unlimited system operation without helium refill. ... then is there really still any meaningful relationship between helium supply and the pa
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think if you _don't_ sell helium to non-recycling facilities in the near term, MRIs would stop altogether. The two articles about recycling that you shared are both research universities who considered it a PR-worthy accomplishment t
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think your comparison to OPEC is interesting, b/c it sounds like you think the price of oil was artificially high, but in retrospect, I think many would say that it has been far too cheap to burn oil, and this has driven our multi-ge
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by abeppu 3y ago
Doesn't this give companies that supply helium to hospitals an opportunity to purchase helium? It seems like if there's a shortage for important uses in the economy, then moving helium out of a government reserve is exactly what y
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm more curious about methane in 2004, where the chart seems to show a _negative_ yoy change, and N2O in 1987? The detail page on the N2O graph says that measurements are better from the late 1990s forward, but they don't show er
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by abeppu 3y ago
They used the word 'pilot' in an ambiguous way, in the context of the Airforce, and then the first photo on the page is of an aircraft in flight. I think the editors _wanted_ you to momentarily think this was going to be an airbor
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by abeppu 3y ago
> The Superior Court of Alameda County is charging roughly $1 per page to get legal filings. To download the entirety of the court proceedings to date, the court wants $2,999. I was surprised by this, b/c I've been able to view
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by abeppu 3y ago
To me this response just seems incoherent. > The ways in which we fail to address societal issues are not in fact our responsibility, they're a systemic issue that is a function of human nature ... - that will not be solved by moros
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by abeppu 3y ago
Sorry, why is it an impossibility for people in power to die? I'm not advocating for violence, to be clear, and in the novel KSM seems to take the stance that at some point violence is really counter-productive. But certainly there hav
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm not familiar enough with international diplomacy or central banking for that to be the most jarring part. But, when the head of an international organization takes a week and a half to get to a meeting on the other side of the plan
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by abeppu 3y ago
I agree that the plot repeatedly follows society making choices which I find implausible -- but if one reads that alienation (one's inner critic saying "this is not the world we live in") as part of the experience of the work
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by abeppu 3y ago
> The 14nm analog chip mimics the human brain I do with that at least _tech journalism_ outlets would develop a habit of asking at least one followup question when a PR says that something is like the human brain. Having analog values be
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by abeppu 3y ago
There's an interesting discrepancy between two parts of this: > Flannery has purchased land from farmers for several times more than the market value and become the biggest landowners in Solano county. > The firm has been sued by
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by abeppu 3y ago
I've heard people casually make the argument that human hunters function similarly to natural predators in terms of increasing population fitness -- but does that actually make sense? A natural predator is incentivized to identify and
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by abeppu 3y ago
The article quotes them describing a range of biochar souce materials: > “Our research team has gained extensive experience in developing highly optimised biochars from different organic wastes, including wood biochar, food-waste biochar
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by abeppu 3y ago
In fact, strong preferences on adjective order are extremely common, and languages including English are often in agreement about what order (or proximity to the noun) adjectives ought to have. https://www.annualreviews.org/
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by abeppu 3y ago
But not all complexity that we see is needed for precise expression. Like, if romance languages like Spanish and French did not require nouns and adjectives to agree on gender, but instead only the noun needed to carry gender info, that wou
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by abeppu 3y ago
> polyester film — a newer film type that can last 500 years How does one confidently establish that about tech that has been around for less than a century? Not saying it's wrong, but curious what should constitute convincing evide
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by abeppu 3y ago
I still think it's "bullpucky" and two or three clueless pedestrians don't demonstrate anything. When living in a neighborhood where almost all of the houses were old and poorly insulated, the motorcycles which went up a
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by abeppu 3y ago
This jumps from anecdata to cherry-picked stats to really speculative predictions. Some of them may be right, and there can be a real problem, but this is not well argued or thought through. One could take several of these wild predictions
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by abeppu 3y ago
> CATLs new fast-charging LFP battery is equipped with in-house technology, including fast ion ring technology, a new superconducting electrolyte formulation, and an ultra thin and safer separator. ... is the electrolyte actually superco
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by abeppu 3y ago
If equities are currently highly valued, should we expect IPOs to come back?
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by abeppu 3y ago
Ok, maybe a dumb question -- are printers still hard to make? Is the IP really locked down? If I search online for printer, I still see almost entirely stuff from big known players (HP, Canon, Epson, Brother). I can buy a knock-off smart-wa
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think the federal government just needs to have a 'fitness standard' for schools to be eligible to receive federal loan dollars. Like, >80% of tuition dollars must be spent on instruction staff, instruction-specific facilitie
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by abeppu 3y ago
I won't pretend to know anything real about higher education in other countries. But if staff cannot meet once per term with students, then I wonder how effective they can be overall? If a student's interaction with staff is limit

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