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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I’ve observed the phenomenon and I think it boils down to being poorly communicated on both sides. An essential part of reasoning in mathematics comes from the experience of being repeatedly stuck. Walking through an exciting “maze” for 20
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Don’t know why you got downvoted but here are some relevant links about legal complications [0][1], sexual assaults [2] and alcoholism [3] on Antarctica (data mainly from US-based stations). [0] https://archive.ph/dgKwt [1]
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
>Lebron James has been remarked upon for his ability to remember practically any play of any game he's ever been in (and many that he hasn't) in precise detail. And actress Marilu Henner can basically remember every detail of h
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20180321023312/https://www.nytim... Pecunia non olet [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Yeah, ~ 1.5x in relation to their respective aphelions (farthest orbital distance to the Sun) But, yes - if you will - the area of the solar system consequently has more than doubled; which has nicer ring to it :) To be exact if my number
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Thanks for your insight. Most people reading sci-pop articles are by now hopefully used to sensationalism. But I think in this case (which can be equally bad) the journalist only spoke to codensed matter physicists biased towards or having
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Indeed! It is a quite telling story about the messy inner workings of scientific discoveries. In the case of Neptune, Le Verrier hit the nail right on its head (where others suggested a limit to Newton's theory of gravity). This treme
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
A little historical tangent: Tomorrow (23rd) marks the 176th anniversary of the discovery of Neptune (~ 1.07 years on Neptune; 164.8 Earth years). Johann Gottfried Galle an astronomer at the Berlin observatory found Neptune at the behest
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying with examples, y'all :) I wasn't thinking concretely but on some vague principle. Now I see, of course, makes sense.
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
>But with computers so fast, it's quite common for people, especially in conceptual design space, to use Monte Carlo methods since it's a lot easier to believe the answer once you get it. Is it really easier to "believe&qu
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Actually if you look closely at the repeated notes at the beginning of the song it can be read as morse code (without spaces) for YYZ [0]. The story goes while on the Toronto Airport Neil Peart overheard the airport identifier in morse code
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Both the pandemic (health crisis) in 2020 and the energy crisis 2022 in Europe cannot be understood without looking at the whole picture of cui bono on all sides. When Trump warned Germany about the dependence on Russian gas he had first a
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Well, there is some substantial outsourcing of the army and intelligence services via private (military) contractors [0]. In a world of increasing PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) the line gets very blurry indeed. One interesting line of t
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Two types of BJW (general and personal) are investigated in this study: higher general BJW was linked to more dishonest behavior and there was no significant relationship between personal BJW and levels of dishonesty . General BJW: refe
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I remember the imdb-ratings on movies from India were also absurdly high, I brushed it off as a cultural thing back then; but unfortunately [0] the rigging seems to be norm on imdb across the board (not limited to India). [0] https:/&#
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Also a fascinating story behind the inventor Curt Herzstark (born in 1902 in Vienna). From his very early years he was able to tinker in his father's workshop simply called "Austria" the first (mechanical) calculator plant i
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
The high is nice but the main thing I took away - when doing WHM some years ago - is to tolerate the CO2 buildup by relaxing and calming myself. The breathing pattern can help induce this; for me additionally learning to breath comfortably
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I have quickly scanned the Phd thesis [0] and regarding the citied (basically the same sources as mine above) DNA analysis and fossils found (carbon dating) the uncertainties in the measurements themselves are given as evidence of "den
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
For anyone interested, the picture Figure 1 [0] - as one would except - is quite messy but yeah, Equus (most recent common ancestor) node 1 and node 2 (3.9 - 7.8 mya (~5.6 mya)) and the divergence (node 3) to caballine/non-caballi
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
As with a lot of classics if one wants to really dive into it there is no royal way around working your way through the references / original (critical editions). In Rumi's case the translator's stereotype of a western audien
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
> We sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from 71 archaeological dog remains collected in North America and Siberia (Fig. 1a; Table S1) and analyzed these with 145 mitogenomes derived from a global dataset of modern a
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
The paragraph is imprecise, here a direct citation from a paper's abstract about The Evolutionary History of Dogs in the Americas [0]: > Dogs were present in the Americas prior to the arrival of European colonists, but the origin
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
One needs a theory of mechanism to develop an intervention i.e. "new drug". The simpler the better. But given the tremendous complexities involved in biological systems one has to be very careful with the data. Quite frankly most
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
In order to find "new music" the listeners themselves have to put in some effort, be curious and open to the experience. It helps if there is a culture around it, not around "genres" but around discovering music (be it o
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
This is an extremely mind-boggling image, there is a lot going on here. So first, one has to keep in mind that this is a composite with images from different wavelengths (exposure time 12.5h), so there could be some artefacts from processin
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
As an incidental remark: I find it remarkable that on the surface I now know of three G7 countries / liberal democracies where the PM/President is the (grand)son of a PM/President himself. Bush Sr - Bush Jr Pierre Trudeau -
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
> To learn you’ve got to become excited by knowledge, obsessed with it, sometimes dangerously so, sometimes in ways that might border on compulsion, or even addiction. How else could someone, like me, make it through 7 years of graduate
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
You are right. The direct etymological connection to the phrase used in the Vulgate (4th century Latin translation of the bible) I was trying to make doesn't exist. At most a weak allusion. The latin word "fiat" ("let i
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
For anyone confused about wet-bulb (global temperature) and dry-bulb temperature, heat index etc. Those are all specific formulas with different sets of parameters and defined domains. To exemplify the range: [...] Meteorologists measure t
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
The financial system with its incentives (read: the currency itself) is basically tilted to that kind of money spending. The decoupling from the 'Gold Standard' in 1971 gave this a big boost. So, essentially banks can create money

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