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Sede vacante: What happens now, and who is in charge of the Vatican?(pillarcatholic.com)
2 points by antognini 1y ago|1 comments
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by antognini 1y ago
The last three popes have all died during the Octave of Easter or Christmas.
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by antognini 2y ago
It has been a while since I looked at the papers but I believe it's carbon dating of the human remains buried at the megaliths.
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by antognini 2y ago
There are around 10,000 megalith structures in the Sahara, most of which were constructed between 3000 and 2000 BC, when desertification was well underway. A large number of these were discovered within the last 20 years using Google Earth
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by antognini 2y ago
The past tariffs (including from Trump's first term) were targeted at specific industries like steel or aluminum so you could make a case that it was necessary for national security. Other trade deals that set a broad set of tariffs (
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by antognini 2y ago
I've seen relatively little discussion about these lawsuits, but I do think there is a pretty good chance that SCOTUS will rule these tariffs unconstitutional. (It's certainly more likely than Congress rescinding the powers they&
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by antognini 2y ago
As a former astronomer, one thing to highlight here is that statistical uncertainties aren't usually all that important in assessing how likely a result in astronomy is to be true. The main issue you grapple with in the field are your
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by antognini 2y ago
You'd be able to do it based on the math in the article. Civil twilight lasts from sunset until the Sun is 6° below the horizon. So in the spherical law of cosines in the article, you'd just set a to be -6° instead of 0.
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by antognini 2y ago
Thank you! That's high praise! :)
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by antognini 2y ago
I'd say the graph's qualitative behavior is correct. Once you get to the arctic circle, there are singularities in the rate of change of the length of daylight. For example, if you're at the North Pole, the sun is below the
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How fast the days are getting longer (2023)(joe-antognini.github.io)
613 points by antognini 2y ago|203 comments
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by antognini 2y ago
If you click through to the FAQ this is addressed: "How is this different from The Art of Electronics? The Art of Electronics is a wonderful book, but doesn't contain a lot of information about the design process. It's mostly
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by antognini 2y ago
Quanta did have an article about this discovery: https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-yea...
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by antognini 2y ago
Its PE ratio is by far the lowest of the FAANG/MANGA/Magnificent 7 tech companies.
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by antognini 2y ago
One of the reasons that there were historically so many machinations around the election of the Pope was that the Pope was not only a spiritual leader but a temporal ruler as well. The Pope was the monarch of the Papal States in central It
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by antognini 2y ago
It also can't really be overstated how helpful it is as an ML engineer to simply spend the time going through thousands of examples yourself. If you abstract yourself away from the data and just "make metric go up" you'
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Catalog of Metaphors(metaphors.iath.virginia.edu)
1 points by antognini 2y ago|0 comments
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by antognini 2y ago
i think one of the things astronomers were pleasantly surprised to see was that the Gaia results have indicated that other low rungs of the distance ladder were pretty well calibrated. Most of these are based in some way on stellar evoluti
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by antognini 2y ago
No, I think one of the fundamental insights of stochastic calculus is that the addition of noise to a process changes the trajectory in a non-trivial way. In finance, for instance, it leads to the concept of a "volatility tax." N
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by antognini 2y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense for people to downsize to smaller homes as they age? Instead we have incentivized empty nesters to stay in huge homes with 5 bedrooms while young families have to cram into 1 bedroom condos.
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by antognini 2y ago
"Unfortunately, it is easy to see that the effect of PBH collisions with the human population will always be negligible." I'm not so sure that is unfortunate.
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by antognini 2y ago
The mean free path of neutrinos through lead is around one light-year. So, taking the thickness of the body to be 1/2 a meter, you would expect the probability of any individual neutrino to interact with the body to be ~5 x 10^-17. S
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by antognini 2y ago
For context, 120 PeV is about 10% the kinetic energy of a ping pong ball during typical play.
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by antognini 2y ago
The issue with the standard watermark techniques is that they require an output of at least a few hundred tokens to reliably imprint the watermark. This technique would apply to much shorter outputs.
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by antognini 2y ago
This is including both MS and PhD.
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by antognini 2y ago
At least in astrophysics Berkeley had a reputation for grad students taking a very long time to finish. At most schools grad students would get a PhD within 5--6 years. At Berkeley it was regularly taking students 10+ years to finish, whi
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NIST SRM 2781: Domestic Sludge(sigmaaldrich.com)
1 points by antognini 2y ago|0 comments
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by antognini 2y ago
I posted this comment more in the spirit of showing how the institution has evolved over the centuries. A lot of people think that the "Inquisition" was just something that happened once in the distant past, but it is still right
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by antognini 2y ago
Incidentally, the body that wrote this text, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, is the oldest and arguably most powerful department in the Roman Curia. (Joseph Ratzinger was its head prior to becoming pope.) To the laity it migh
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by antognini 2y ago
It took me a little while to be convinced that he was actually reporting the weather as it was like at his home rather than saying the same thing every day. But, no, he was really reporting the weather and the weather is really just always

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