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by comicjk 5y ago
C-F bonds are very stable, not like O-F bonds. They're found in common drugs like Prozac, and common materials like Teflon.
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by comicjk 5y ago
They've tried a lot of these things, if not all of them. A colleague of mine in grad school was working on optimally using flame jets to crack the rock ("thermal spallation drilling").
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by comicjk 5y ago
Same, I got "subloci" https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/cG4J This tool is neat, but it needs a better dictionary lookup for avoiding real words. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subloci
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by comicjk 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management , also known as "Taylorism" after Frederick Winslow Taylor. I don't think Dan Luu is saying anything like this, though.
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by comicjk 5y ago
Classic hype cycle. We've seen mRNA can do one thing really well, now it will be suggested to do everything. It will be a few years before we have a clear picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
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by comicjk 5y ago
I think investigative journalism nonprofits like ProPublica are the best point of leverage for this problem. Big newspapers like the Washington Post & NY Times do good investigative work too, but pair it with lots of duplicate stories.
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by comicjk 5y ago
If we assume everyone has been infected? Why would we assume that? The estimates I've seen (including asymptomatic) are around 1/3 infected. The source you cited is from 2020, so it doesn't tell us much about today.
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by comicjk 5y ago
On the one hand, peer review takes long enough already. On the other... I saw an influential paper that published obviously-wrong timing data, essentially saying that time(A) + time(B) < time(B). It seems they were including the Python i
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by comicjk 5y ago
Random wiki pages are one of the things that give HN its pleasant Old Internet atmosphere to me. Sometimes I've thought about sampling over wikipedia uniformly at random, submitting to HN, and observing the trends in what rises to the
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by comicjk 5y ago
The rules are what matters, yes, but the naming of games is a classification problem over sets of rules. This is most obvious with competitive video games, which have complex rules that are tweaked often - each balance patch changes the rul
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by comicjk 5y ago
I don't think they do. The electrons are indistinguishable - there is no "which" and no need for selection.
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by comicjk 5y ago
I think that's what was meant by "Middle Ages/ early Renaissance" in the comment above. In this time period, literacy was a rare advantage. For instance, in early modern England, literate people were not subject to ordin
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by comicjk 5y ago
I mean fresh eyes with respect to my new API. Having seen a lot of other code is a benefit. I expect most tests that Copilot writes to fail, but I would hope some would fail in interesting ways. For example, off-by-one errors might encourag
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by comicjk 5y ago
It would be awful to write every test using Copilot, but there is potential there for a certain kind of test. If I'm writing an API, I want fresh eyes on it, not just tests written by the person who understands it most (me). For exampl
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by comicjk 5y ago
This is a statistically shoddy talking point. The average of all causes of death is right at the average life expectancy, by definition. Any cause of death weighted towards the elderly will have an average age above the average life expecta
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by comicjk 5y ago
In addition to the corrosion problem, extracting anything valuable from seawater means processing a huge volume of it. Expensive membrane * huge volume = huge expense.
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by comicjk 5y ago
I'm guessing this is a psych/creativity test about drawing an abstract concept, like courage. "Spunky" would then be the abstract concept of spunkiness.
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by comicjk 5y ago
Deep holes are expensive. Oil drilling, the cheapest kind of drilling since it's very common and in soft rock, costs $100-$200 per vertical foot.* A 2 km hole would cost $650,000 - $1.3M. It would not be economical to do this for one h
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by comicjk 5y ago
Ground-source heating/cooling is quite different from geothermal heat or power. With ground-source, you just have a heat pump like an ordinary air conditioner, but using the ground as the heat sink instead of outside air. A couple of m
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by comicjk 5y ago
Seeding with the time makes the outputs predictable to an adversary. If your games are not moving real money based on your RNG (like online poker), you probably don't have any adversaries trying to guess your random numbers, so you&#x2
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by comicjk 5y ago
True, but almost a tautology: IQ tests are designed to be a metric of intelligence that is stable over time. They indeed have that property. Other correlates of intelligence are less stable. The everyday things by which one's intellige
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by comicjk 5y ago
I'm in an R&D job as well. I agree that a PhD is expected, but I disagree that it's necessary. Most R&D work is so specialized that PhDs are not much closer to it than MS graduates, PhD dropouts, or just people with releva
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by comicjk 5y ago
Some drugs are developed with a particular mechanism in mind: a known protein target, a known binding site, and a molecule designed to match. For these, scientists have a good shot at knowing what's going on. Even then, a doctor might
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by comicjk 5y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true. This is a trick for working around the rule of law, but totalitarian governments don't need that subtlety. They have dummy courts and full control over what's legal. To take the mos
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by comicjk 5y ago
To some extent this famous quote is just sour grapes: Jefferson wasn't much involved in the drafting or passing of the US Constitution, so naturally he was not as attached to it as the other founders. Note that this was a letter writte
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by comicjk 5y ago
Sounds similar to a Granny Smith, which is meant to be eaten green and a little sour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Smith "The apple goes from being completely green to turning yellow when overripe."
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by comicjk 5y ago
When I'm explaining logarithms, I find it helps to relate it to the number of digits. This code is a good example of the concept: you don't need log, just convert the int to a string and check its length. A string with 1-3 digits
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by comicjk 5y ago
It's true, though it wasn't the first use of these techniques. They beat the British this way at the battle of Gate Pā. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_campaign
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by comicjk 6y ago
These "statistics" are not credible. More than 0.1% of all Americans (340k) have already died of COVID-19. If the IFR were 0.15-0.2%, more than half of the population would have been infected already and the spread would be pretty
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by comicjk 6y ago
This is a really good solution. Of course, there's still room for more research and better methods in the future, but now computational protein structure prediction can compete with experiments actually measuring the structure.

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