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by dstyrb 11y ago
Not sure, for boys it goes cub scouts then boy scouts. But there'a an analogous girls organization that goes brownies to girl scouts. I've not a clue what the girls organization does at meetings, but they're famous for sellin
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I've seen this for sale in Japan for years now. And clip on lenses that work with most phones are, what, 10 years old? And priced at 2-10$? "Unlike other macro photography lenses, which can cost hundreds of pounds, Toby's pro
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Ditto. My pool skills are remarkably improved from my youth though.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
maybe something like this: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newss...
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by dstyrb 11y ago
This sounds extremely similar to the way I was personally taught trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra, and tensor calculus. First you are asked to work out some monstrous 4 page problem by hand. Then you have a lecture on the specific tri
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Anyone else find it ironic that the site has a twitter, facebook, g+, diaspora share bar hovering on the right hand side?
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I was impressed with some of the developments apparently taking place in American school systems: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/public-school-stude... "In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Wish they had proofreaders. "and mass is one of the most properties anything can have." "one of several experiments studying antineutrinos, which is does by looking at"
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by dstyrb 11y ago
"The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame."
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by dstyrb 11y ago
“When cheap modern things in our lives inevitably broke, we replaced them with sturdy historic equivalents instead of more disposable modern trash.” There it is, the inevitable disdain, the hallmark of the chronic hipster.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I worked in this area briefly and I verify that this is actually a high quality article on the topic. The last one I read was a publicity ploy for a rushed job.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
A similar low-cost telescope for science education: http://galileoscope.org Not quite papercraft cheap...
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Nice Tycho Brahe reference.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
In astronomy I've always heard the rule of 10s. 10% of astronomers get the PhD, 10% of the PhDs get post docs, 10% of post docs get tenure. And tenure in 0-2 years? That's impossible outside of China or India or the Soviet bloc. I
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Nothing really productive to say to anyone except professional astronomers in the room: This is a similar tutorial we went through at ESA: http://python4esac.github.io/index.html This is a more advanced machine learning foc
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I laughed.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
A concise summary of just about everything wrong with the mainstream music industry. This excerpt is particularly nice: "You want them to turn on the radio and hear Rihanna, turn on BET and see Rihanna, walk down the street and see a p
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Subtleties of Color (in Data Visualization)(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Well, not precisely. I don't know how it is outside astronomy (hello parent parent), but inside astronomy it's relatively well known that there are four journals that are likely to be scrutinously peer reviewed and which _will_ re
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I'm sure this article "The Outsiders" from the Prometheus society has been posted here before: 216.224.180.96/~prom/oldsite/articles/Outsiders.html Summary: it's well known that high IQs are linked to
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by dstyrb 11y ago
This comes of as pretty pompous and assuming when neither of the diametric constructs (mechanical and biological intelligence) are even close to understood.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
"Ancient astronaut theorists say yes" Sometime in season 1 or 6 I think. The one where Akhenaten is an alien. But not the one where the pyramids are microwave lasers.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I don't think I've ever seen someone commit so much time and effort to making a game sound so boring. We played this as an essentially neverending drinking game... Not a special session of the junior senate.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
A fun little trip on a related note is the Alaska Ferry (Alaska Marine Highway I think) which leaves Seattle (well, suburb) and spends about 4 days heading up to Alaska. You can sleep on the deck with a sleeping bag (or in a little heated p
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by dstyrb 11y ago
What? I'm fairly positive this has nothing to do with oppression except in a wildly politicized worldview where somehow lower socioeconomic areas were actually prohibited access to the reporting functionality. As far as I'm aware
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by dstyrb 11y ago
At that time I think it had to do with disproportionate smartphone penetration (since it was a smartphone app, not a phone number, you just tap it when you see a pothole and it sends your geodata). But then and now, even close to 100% smart
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Cool stuff -- author doesn't mention that Roman cement had a usability life of >2000 years, while Portland cement starts to degrade after 50 years (for rough harbor usages). http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles&
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by dstyrb 11y ago
This reminds me of the -- Chigago? -- city app where citizens could report the locations of potholes on the roads in Chicago and the city would send repair crews time permitting... What happened? The upscale trendy neighborhoods were all po
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On the History and Future of Cosmic Planet Formation(arxiv.org)
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Cattle and schoolchildren, our last line of defense against the encroaching flood of raisins.

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