funklute

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by funklute 7y ago
If you smash them together faster, you just increase their energy, i.e. the opposite of what you want. If electrons fly off, you are likely to be left with an unstable molecule.
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by funklute 7y ago
You might have to be a bit more specific about what exactly you are asking, but for example this paper and its references might be an interesting start: https://bib.dbvis.de/uploadedFiles/155.pdf
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by funklute 7y ago
The point is that there is an aspect of the circadian rhythm which can not be circumvented simply by going to bed earlier.
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by funklute 7y ago
Ouch, that is pretty disappointing numbers :(
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by funklute 7y ago
Just as an aside: "accuracy" is a pointless measure if you don't also know the ratio of true cases to false cases. The metrics you really want is the True/False Positive rates - without that you can't gauge the qual
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by funklute 7y ago
I don't think I fully understand what conditions you are talking about. I very rarely put my screen brightness any higher than 50%, and I've never maxed it out. My first thought is that it's not the brightness, but the contra
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by funklute 7y ago
Do you think it was as good as a factory-produced matte screen? While I was aware you can do this, I'm a little hesitant to do something which is an absolute minimum for usability, in case I'm not happy with the outcome. It feels
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by funklute 7y ago
The screens are actually the very reason I choose a thinkpad over a mac. Gloss screens are pretty much impossible to work on if you prefer dark colorschemes, and at least the thinkpads give you the matte option.
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by funklute 7y ago
People didn't know that for sure - there was actually a fear that thermonuclear bombs would ignite the atmosphere and turn us into a sun.
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by funklute 7y ago
Yea, when I first found that extension, I was pretty excited about it. But it ultimately is not a first class citizen in the way it is for R notebooks, so I simply don't feel as comfortable using this as I might otherwise have been.
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by funklute 7y ago
Superb talk! It's worth noting that a lot of the issues he brings up, ultimately stem from the format in which Jupyter notebooks are stored. R notebooks, with their plain-text stored format as well as code-chunk parameters, solve some,
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by funklute 7y ago
I was quite curious about this project a while back. But I later talked to an academic, a friend who happens to be an expert in the kinds of reaction kinetics the project relies on. His view was that they are not using the correct reaction
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by funklute 7y ago
It does seem a bit whiny... if there are truly other options, then yea sure. But it seems the fundamental issue is that where the current theories break down, is exactly where you need high-cost accelerators to probe further. And if that&#x
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by funklute 7y ago
I don't quite see your point. I agree that both traditional and modern slavery is not voluntary. But if there are no other options, other than taking an extremely low-paying job, then modern slavery is exactly what you get. None of tha
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by funklute 7y ago
Not necessarily. If you go train as, say, a carpenter, then yea sure. But you don't learn many skills from pushing trolleys in a supermarket.
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by funklute 7y ago
Eventually you approach (modern) slavery though, and the transition is not black to white, but a continuous one. So your argument, without any qualifications, actually implies that (modern) slavery is not a problem. I hope it is obvious to
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by funklute 7y ago
> we underestimate as a society how damaging it is because it's so hard to measure I'm not sure I agree with that. It has been known within public health for decades that poverty is an important predictor of life expectancy and
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by funklute 7y ago
A well-developed statistical model should be able to take that into account. My understanding is that the academic consensus is fairly strongly leaning towards nuclear being the safest energy option, based on robust statistical models. Woul
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by funklute 7y ago
I think there is a strong argument to be made that having the US police the world, in the name of democracy, is not great if a large proportion of the voters are not educated enough to make rational voting decisions on such issues. And geog
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by funklute 7y ago
> Scientists could make a lot more money in industry That may be true, as well as accurate, for a field like machine learning. But for most of science, this is a highly misleading claim. Some science (e.g. drug development, materials sci
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by funklute 7y ago
I feel that would be comparing apples to oranges. A lot of the stuff he talks about in the article is about emacs as an editor, and not specific to restructured text. Whereas R bookdown is a package for converting complex R markdown into bo
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by funklute 7y ago
But as it turns out, you can (mostly) rely on some very simple rules of thumb to describe all those different sizes and shapes. There are only so many functional groups from which the organic zoo is built, and the most common ones (e.g. a b
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by funklute 7y ago
On the other hand, understanding molecular bonding is much easier in organic chemistry. Inorganic chemistry mostly requires molecule-by-molecule computational solutions, whereas organic can get you quite far purely with rules of thumb. I ma
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by funklute 7y ago
hummm.... I partly agree with you now. I don't agree that "bilingual advantage" is necessarily subjective per se. But if you were to say "the conclusions are only valid insofar as the chosen metrics to measure are repres
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by funklute 7y ago
"no consensus" in this case means that researchers have claimed different things in the past. If you can form a hypothesis which is falsifiable by a repeatable experiment, then it is by definition science. This paper is clearly sc
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by funklute 7y ago
Can you be a bit more specific? The abstract doesn't seem biased at all. They explicitly state that there is currently "no consensus", which, when warranted, is the best position to take in order to get unbiased results.
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by funklute 7y ago
It's super useful if you're on the phone, having to spell out a list of letters, e.g. a postcode
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by funklute 7y ago
Logistic regression without regularization blows up if your data is linearly separable. This is an issue you don't really encounter with linear regression. EDIT: Apparently this is getting downvoted. To explain a bit more clearly: if y
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by funklute 7y ago
that's actually pretty cool
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by funklute 7y ago
I have no idea what you are trying to say with this...

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