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Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment of the CDC(npr.org)
70 points by evanb 5y ago|134 comments
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by evanb 5y ago
Not GP but I think the keys were to enter the dorm building without scanning an electronic FOB or ID card, not for the elevator.
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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System––Leslie Lamport [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)
2 points by evanb 5y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 5y ago
It’s much easier to cut something in half and half again, to get 0.25 then it is to cut something in fifths to get 0.2, for example. So if you’re a proficient carpenter you have all sorts of tricks and geometrical constructions that let yo
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by evanb 5y ago
My satirical take on this phenomenon in physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12201
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by evanb 5y ago
Here’s a functional all-Lego microscope: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/fcce15cd-27e0-405b-990b-681b... No non-Lego pieces; even the lenses are Lego minifig-scale magnifying glasses. Unfortunately, it didn’t get enou
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by evanb 6y ago
Phases typically imply a thermodynamically large quantity. It makes no sense to describe the phase of a handful of particles.
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by evanb 6y ago
> I’ve never seen it by going after the 7 pin. Is this just a repercussion of most people being right-handed?
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by evanb 6y ago
For very big and expensive projects that have an infrastructure part and a science part, like the LHC’s tunnel vs detectors, we try to avoid this by having multiple, separately-designed detectors at different intersection points. Hence the
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by evanb 6y ago
Some of my collaborators use Overleaf with the git bridge to interact with our version-controlled drafts. The git bridge is broken, and overwrites git filemodes, erasing executable bits without the user's request; even on files that t
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by evanb 6y ago
> Do we wait around for someone else to cook up a batch of similar secret sauce to confirm the result? It took you folks 20 years to redo the experiment. Independent lattice calculations have already been underway for some time; I would
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by evanb 6y ago
> It sounds like the "secret sauce" for this collaboration includes a set of numerical libraries. Indeed. There are really only a limited set of (physics) choices when making these libraries. As long as the discretization you
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by evanb 6y ago
I really want to stress: it's excellent science, and that's why they hold their code tightly. You can say 'no, a true scientist publishes everything' but---says you. As someone in the field let me assure you: everything
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by evanb 6y ago
I appreciate the absolutist position. However, everybody agrees on what code _must do_. If you need to solve a (massive) system of linear equations (as happens often in LQCD) you can then take your alleged solution and plug it in and chec
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by evanb 6y ago
I'm a lattice QCD practitioner. What I'll say is that the BMW collaboration isn't named that by coincidence---they're a resource-rich, extremely knowledgeable, cutting-edge group that is the envy of many others. They&#x
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by evanb 6y ago
TeX's initial release was 1978.
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by evanb 6y ago
They’re not using single-dose vaccines. But they are prioritizing (getting the first dose into as many people as possible) over (getting everybody who had the first dose their second dose the exact number of days later).
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Unit is attracting retail workers looking for modern ways to organize(businessinsider.com)
1 points by evanb 6y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 6y ago
Many people remember seeing a particularly startling figure claiming to show the radiation in the water post-Fukushima. That figure actually shows wave height and was used to spread FUD. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check&#
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by evanb 6y ago
I have them all merge into 1, but my mail software can still filter / whatever else based on the To field. Also if someone sells my email address I can just prevent that one from merging and send it into a black hole.
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by evanb 6y ago
I bought my own domain and use whatever-service@mydomain.com to avoid exactly this problem.
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by evanb 6y ago
Not for nothing but because that is close to a slur (and would probably be pronounced the same way), that’s probably not a good choice.
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by evanb 6y ago
This happened to my messenger strap. I opened a ticket on their website, included a photo, and they sent me a mew strap.
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by evanb 6y ago
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000dher...
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by evanb 6y ago
If you’re on this website you may be interested to learn that Bardeen won for inventing the transistor. (His other prize was for explaining super conductivity; he won for experimental work and separately for theoretical work!) Bardeen didn’
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Zero Knowledge Proof Feat. Avi Wigderson [video](youtube.com)
3 points by evanb 6y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 6y ago
Not necessarily. If you are descended from historically insular communities (like Ashkenazi Jews, for example) or geographically distant communities (take Native Americans for a clear example) it is unlikely you have Dante as a direct ance
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by evanb 6y ago
This was flagged, but I think mistakenly by people who think you're joking or taking a dig. The point is there weren't 70,000,000,000 people alive in Italy back then (or, you know, anywhere ever), so it is very likely that Dante
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by evanb 6y ago
This joke relies on the listener knowing that the regularized sum of 1+2+3+... = -1/12.
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Waiting for the American Khrushchev(medium.com)
1 points by evanb 6y ago|0 comments

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