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Acme Weather, from the Creators of Dark Sky(apps.apple.com)
2 points by gammarator 8mo ago|2 comments
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by gammarator 8mo ago
Did you read the article? The author considers these possibilities and offers their estimates of the odds of each. It’s fine if yours differ but you should justify them.
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by gammarator 8mo ago
Also “The Unaccountability Machine” https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...
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by gammarator 9mo ago
Evaporative cooling of the best content, likely, but plenty of social networks with worse ad loads still have plenty of users. My question is whether Ellison does to it what Elon did to X: revamp the algorithm to support his politics.
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by gammarator 9mo ago
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
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by gammarator 10mo ago
Sounds like Dr. Kirkpatrick should have been a coauthor.
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by gammarator 10mo ago
While Pasadena is a relatively wealthy city, historically there has been significant avoidance of its public schools by affluent residents: https://southerneducation.org/in-the-news/new-polling-data-f...
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by gammarator 10mo ago
The sentence is accurate, your comment is not. The administration unilaterally canceled existing grants and halted and showed granting of funds appropriated by Congress, so the money was not used as allocated. If Congress allocated $1B fo
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by gammarator 10mo ago
Your linked article does say Rivian ranked first in satisfaction, which does support the GP’s “rabidly loyal.”
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by gammarator 10mo ago
Can’t wait for the brave new world of individuals “match fixing” outcomes on Polymarket.
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by gammarator 1y ago
(American _Astronautical_ Society)
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by gammarator 1y ago
[citation needed]
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by gammarator 1y ago
Emacs and vim have complex interfaces that have been stable for decades. Seems like every new flavor of LLM requires learning its warts and blind spots from scratch.
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by gammarator 1y ago
Lobby groups are private actors rating elected Congressional reps. This is government officials rating private actors (with an implied threat to punish those who don’t comply).
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by gammarator 1y ago
Comments about SLS miss what’s happening. SLS is inefficient and wasteful, but human spaceflight is not what’s getting cut at NASA. Instead, very productive current and future science missions are getting killed, in defiance of Congress [1
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by gammarator 1y ago
Or inherit the Prop 13 rate from your parents.
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by gammarator 1y ago
I’m surprised the author didn’t try to make more at home! Personally I’m a fan of the apps at https://mixologytech.com/ , especially “Modern Classics.”
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by gammarator 1y ago
“Arcminutes per second” would be the standard way to express it in astronomy.
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by gammarator 1y ago
This is the obvious consequence of funding agencies pouring money into “AI.”
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by gammarator 1y ago
JD Vance is not banned, he’s just widely blocked, which is something BlueSky users are free to do.
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by gammarator 1y ago
His investing happened as a consequence of having available capital (and, certainty, forward-looking ideas about how to seed startups). As to the writing, I think its influence (in terms of ideas) makes people overrate its stylistic quality
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Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System(abc.net.au)
308 points by gammarator 1y ago|171 comments
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by gammarator 1y ago
Also http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21 (I am a physicist myself)
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by gammarator 1y ago
It seems self-evident to me that epistemic humility _requires_ temporal discounting. We should not be confident we can predict the future well enough to integrate utility centuries forward.
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Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy(science.org)
192 points by gammarator 1y ago|67 comments
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by gammarator 1y ago
For UW specifically, it is possible that this can be explained by incompetence rather than malice.
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by gammarator 1y ago
[pdf] implies that the link directly downloads a pdf.
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by gammarator 1y ago
I prefer the NASA vision statement from nasa.gov/about: "NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery." to Casey's "defend US interests
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by gammarator 1y ago
I love Merlin! It's worth noting that some of its early funding was provided by the National Science Foundation: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1010818
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by gammarator 1y ago
If you think scientific discoveries like this are important, _please_ contact your congressperson and indicate that you oppose the catastrophic cuts proposed to NASA astrophysics in the President's Budget Request: https://w

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