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by evanb 11y ago
There's no question that Kackson was a good President, but isn't trading the image of a lifelong slaveholder for goods and services in poor taste?
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by evanb 11y ago
There's a long-standing overrepresentation of women in solar astronomy. Why? It was previously thought unthinkably inappropriate that women should spend the nite in the observatory alone with men. So, to do astronomy many were pushe
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by evanb 11y ago
99 PI did a good piece on brutalism. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hard-to-love-a-brute/
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by evanb 11y ago
That was not my understanding of statute of limitations. Suppose I committed a burglary 10 years ago, and I am out of jeopardy because the statute of limitations has kicked in. Now legislation extends the statute of limitations to 50 year
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by evanb 11y ago
That seems totally dopey. Isn't the point of ex post facto that if you make a legally-informed decision with understood consequences, those consequences shouldn't be able to change (because you might have made a different decisio
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by evanb 11y ago
If that's the case, why wouldn't the ex-post-facto clause in the constitution (Article 1 Section 9) nevertheless protect anybody this bill is meant to open to liability?
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by evanb 11y ago
> Having to use two breaks the most basic expectation of editing text. You've never used LaTeX then. I almost always put a line break after a full stop when editing in plain text, because it adds semantic meaning. Moreover, many si
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by evanb 11y ago
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. -- Marvin Minsky http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html "Naches" from our Machines https://www.edge.
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Amazing Cycloid Drawing Machine(youtube.com)
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by evanb 11y ago
For ODEs you can simply think of solving the autonomous system numerically. Since I have many numerical algorithms to solve such a system, solutions exist. Since (most of) those algorithms are totally deterministic and offer no choices an
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[1602.08492] Localization and broadband follow-up of gravitational-wave GW150914(arxiv.org)
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by evanb 11y ago
I don't do plasma physics but other sorts of HPC numerical physics. The answer is a myriad of ways: Check small numerical cases on an already-validated code. Check problems for which you have an analytic solution (in this case, maybe
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Daya Bay discovers a mismatch(symmetrymagazine.org)
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by evanb 11y ago
Somehow they have two streams and only one seems to be on The working one is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7293kAiPZw
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by evanb 11y ago
I believe gp meant multiple laser interferometers, not multiple gravitational-wave-emitting events.
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LIGO livestream [starts 7:15 Eastern / 12:15 UTC](youtube.com)
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by evanb 11y ago
International treaties have established that Antarctica is exclusively for science, and not for private use.
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by evanb 11y ago
With no convective medium, the primary cooling mechanism in space is radiation, making it no so easy to keep computers cool.
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by evanb 11y ago
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. --Marvin Minsky http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html
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by evanb 11y ago
* Maybe. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/about-this-wee...
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by evanb 11y ago
Yes. One quick and not-exactly-honest answer is that photons are gauge bosons and thus are automatically their own antiparticle, while neutrinos are fermions and the symmetry is not guaranteed. Beyond that, though, I don't know how t
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by evanb 11y ago
A very pythagorean stance. All is number, indeed.
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by evanb 11y ago
South Korea and Japan are already under our nuclear umbrella. It would be a major change in our nonproliferation stance to give weapons out.
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by evanb 11y ago
This reminds me of geektool http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ which seems like it may have been abandoned? It was one of my favorite tools.
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by evanb 11y ago
It'd be nice to be able to show / enter n-dimensional histograms too, so that one can get an idea of / control the correlation between two outputs / inputs.
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Tolkien, THE FORCE AWAKENS, and the Sadness of Expanded Universes [spoilers](gerrycanavan.wordpress.com)
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by evanb 11y ago
I meant more along the lines of a user-entered histogram. But that's roughly the same as what you're talking about. It does seem that such a thing must roughly correspond to some internal portion of Guesstimate, anyway. So for
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by evanb 11y ago
Actually, the negative portion could be from sampling the much more substantial negative tail of the Viewers distribution. Either way, constraints seem to be important!
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by evanb 11y ago
I should add that the negative portion of the answer may not be from sampling the small tail of the Video Length distribution, but is much more likely to be an artifact of how you calculate uncertainty. It might be better to find the med
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by evanb 11y ago
You should be careful about committing too much to particular distributions being the "right" ones. For example, what if I know some variable is an odd integer between 1 and 11 inclusive with no support on any other real number?

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