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by fghorow 7y ago
A nice history for the development and support of the Alvarez' hypothesis! Having been in grad school back then, I recall talks taking both sides of the paleontological questions. The civil debate described in this article is the wa
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by fghorow 7y ago
That is utterly tragic. Please be good to "Paul", and do not expect him to "get over it" anytime soon. It doesn't work like that in my experience. If he and family are ready for it, perhaps mentioning The Compassion
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by fghorow 7y ago
I am happy to hear that she is beaming. But, from personal experience, I would not assume that she is anything like "over" losing the other child.
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by fghorow 7y ago
As we say at our local meetings: "We are desperately sorry for the reason you are here, but we are glad you found us." (Edit: typo.)
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by fghorow 7y ago
Just in case there are other bereaved parents (of whom I am one) reading this. I want you to know about an organization called The Compassionate Friends, composed solely of family members of a deceased child. https://www.compassi
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by fghorow 7y ago
I am also a bereaved parent, although my child died at age 25. I utterly agree about the grave mental health issues being caused in the parents. May peace be unto you. (Ping me if you want info about an organization called "The Compas
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by fghorow 7y ago
Everyone in earthquake country -- or indeed anywhere a major disaster could strike -- needs to read this piece. Lives would be saved.
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by fghorow 7y ago
Use this as the low-T side of a heat engine, and you've got a nice little generating technology. Maybe filtering the outgoing radiation to enhance an available low-absorbance band (or bands) and you might be able to help yourself to th
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by fghorow 7y ago
Tim Peters is also the IEEE-754 guru for the Python codebase. Truly a giant of the Python community. <1/2 wink-ly yr's>
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by fghorow 7y ago
Forth programmer from the late '70s here. It was great for self-contained "smart" instruments. (I worked on a magnetometer at UCLA.) But, unfortunately, I never had occasion to work with it again. But, it was definitely one o
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by fghorow 7y ago
I have only read the abstract of this paper so far. But the idea of minimal graphs representing the dynamics of a system goes back (at least) to the work of Jim Crutchfield [ http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/ ] in the &#x27
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by fghorow 7y ago
Having fancy chemistry as in the article is great, but there already exist thermal desalination solutions that require heat (e.g. geothermal, industrial waste heat) rather than work (e.g. electricity for R.O.). For example MED: < https:&
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by fghorow 7y ago
I learned to program with PL/1. I had forgotten about 'put skip edit'. I have no memory of what it was for. However, I'm sure some fine gray(er)beard will remind me here! ;-)
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by fghorow 7y ago
Slightly off topic: Back in the early days of the Newton, there was an app that let you manipulate algebraic expressions by dragging and dropping individual elements of the expression. Think factoring out a common factor represented by the