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by fghorow 7mo ago
What is the delivery mechanism for the MOF. The chemistry sounds promising (to this amateur, at least) but how does it get to and enter cancer cells?
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by fghorow 7mo ago
May peace be unto him, you, and the rest of your family. When (if?) you feel ready, there is an organization [1] whose mission is to support siblings, parents, and grandparents of children who have died at any age. I have been heavily activ
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by fghorow 8mo ago
Geophysicist here. Look up potential fields methods in geophysics. Such things have been measured and mapped for quite some time. The grandfather of all modern gravimeters was invented in 1936 by LaCoste and Romberg.
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by fghorow 8mo ago
May you never need to be in a bereaved parent's shoes.
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by fghorow 8mo ago
Thank you. And shame on the NYT.
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by fghorow 8mo ago
Yes. ChatGPT "safely" helped[1] my friend's daughter write a suicide note. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-h...
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by fghorow 8mo ago
In whose interests would it be for academics to "leave email"? Theirs? (Personally, I think not.)
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by fghorow 9mo ago
I just did a BOTE calculation for my iPhone (A17 Pro chip; GPU rated at 4 Tflops). According to the sales blurbage in TFA, the Cray 1 performed at 80 Mflops. (Yes, that is OBVIOUSLY not comparing apples to Apples -- pun intended). Unless I&
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by fghorow 9mo ago
The doco mentions "left" and "right" mouse. I have the ctrl-click already mapped to right mouse on my trackpad. Before I take the plunge, how well does this work with a trackpad on a MB Air?
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Trump admin funds geothermal network expansion(insideclimatenews.org)
3 points by fghorow 10mo ago|0 comments
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by fghorow 11mo ago
'Once in 300 years'??? While the functional form of the statistical distributions themselves might still be valid, certainly the old parameters are no longer so.
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by fghorow 11mo ago
Does this comment apply to the current crop of American politicians? (Just curious.)
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by fghorow 11mo ago
I need the brights at night for deer (in N. America) and kangaroos (in Oz). Steering them away automagically from oncoming traffic is a better solution than abandoning them altogether. (And yes, I do have cataracts. So oncoming lights _are_
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by fghorow 11mo ago
Yeah, I'm not a human either. (Edited to add: that was from Safari. Chrome worked. YMMV.)
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by fghorow 11mo ago
[1] is a real-time forecast for the auroral oval. See if you are in with a chance. Clear Skies! [1] https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity/auroral...
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by fghorow 11mo ago
I miss Frys...
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by fghorow 1y ago
The one word answer to this? Linux.
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JPL Layoffs(space.com)
1 points by fghorow 1y ago|0 comments
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by fghorow 1y ago
Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." (Mixed rating, according to Snopes.)
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Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider(blog.jupyter.org)
57 points by fghorow 1y ago|16 comments
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by fghorow 1y ago
This Jupyter (CRDT-based) extension appears to solve the BIGGEST HEADACHE I personally have with Jupyter(lab). Jupyter notebooks allow me to hack code/parameters too fluently, and I can't recover earlier positions in code/par
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by fghorow 1y ago
For me, a python user since the late '90s, the answer has always been simple: Guido has taste.
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by fghorow 1y ago
"Learning how to learn" is by far the most important lesson anyone can obtain. That's not just for AI/software/tech, but for anything.
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by fghorow 1y ago
Back in the day -- when used for a disk drive -- we used to call 1000 * 1024 bytes a "marketing megabyte" and 1024*1024 bytes a "megabyte". YMMV.
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by fghorow 1y ago
For those worried about tiny COPs from these gizmos, trawling through the actual paper -- as well as the PR from JHU APL -- in this HN post [1] shows claims of COPs of ~15 for Delta Ts of 1.3°C. A compressor based cooler gets a COP of about
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by fghorow 1y ago
Ummm, errr. Jon Udell[1] was a columnist for Byte (RIP) magazine. He has been around a looooooong time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Udell
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by fghorow 1y ago
s/flood plane/floodplain/ (Sorry for the typo.)
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by fghorow 1y ago
If you will permit me one cautionary point, given that the deadly Texas flash floods just happened. The geomorphic reason that there is flat land next to a river is because it is the flood plane. That kind of land looks tempting, but can be
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by fghorow 1y ago
Not to mention attended hippie-dippie colleges in Oregon...
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Asteroid YR24; now at 1.6% impact probability in 2032(scientificamerican.com)
12 points by fghorow 2y ago|2 comments

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