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Plot of Radiation Levels at Fukushima Daiichi and 75 Miles Away(nytimes.com)
2 points by gammarator 16y ago|0 comments
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by gammarator 16y ago
There are reports of runs on iodine on the US west coast [1], which are not based on any scientific assessment of risk. [1] http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/japans-nuclear-emergenc...
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by gammarator 16y ago
In my view, there has been a lot of fretting from US-based HN folks and others about jet stream fallout, etc. There are reports of runs on iodine on the west coast, e.g. [1]. All of that is woefully premature given the information at
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by gammarator 16y ago
Notably, Boehner's top campaign contributer in the last election cycle was AT&T: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?type=C&#3...
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Hiding from face recognition software with makeup(cvdazzle.com)
3 points by gammarator 16y ago|0 comments
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by gammarator 16y ago
This forthcoming book ("Design for Hackers") might be helpful: http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-the-book/
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by gammarator 16y ago
Yeah, one of the major differences relative to Beacon is that Beacon brought your activity on other sites into Facebook ("gammarator bought 'Bourne Ultimatum' tickets on Fandango.com!") Here it's taking check-ins and likes that the user ha
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by gammarator 16y ago
Papers is quite nice ( http://mekentosj.com/papers/ ). Caveats: Mac/iOS only, not free.
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by gammarator 16y ago
I was a spectator at that meet--it was truly frightening to see. Glad Jason is doing well and sharing his story.
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by gammarator 16y ago
Is 50 having tough times? A couple of weeks ago he was asking his Twitter followers for $100 to shovel the snow off their driveways: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/50_cent_shoveli...
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by gammarator 16y ago
What's new here is the direct observation of a spectral feature--the well-known 511 keV line--which corresponds to annihilation of the positrons produced by the TGF with electrons. Gamma-rays and electrons had been observed before, but it
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by gammarator 16y ago
The positrons (antimatter electrons) detected in this study are fairly easy to produce on Earth--certainly more cheaply than building satellites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron#Production Positrons are also produced in some radio
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by gammarator 16y ago
jemfinch suggested that the author did not understand the phrase, but it was not obvious to me that jemfinch understood it--a "cargo cult" and "cargo cult science/mathematics" are two different concepts, and I find physics literacy on HN ra
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by gammarator 16y ago
I think he's making an appropriate reference to Feynman's definition of "cargo cult science" ( http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm ): "So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms
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by gammarator 16y ago
If you're Google shareholder and think they don't return a large enough dividend, you can sell your shares . The market will fix the issue better than lectures.
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by gammarator 16y ago
Science is a social endeavor like all other human activity, and looking at an author's background is an amazingly efficient heuristic for detecting cranks. Relativity and cosmology seems to produce lots of them, and they--unlike Einstein
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Reusable Code is Bad [or at least overrated](mooneyblog.mmdbsolutions.com)
1 points by gammarator 16y ago|1 comments
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by gammarator 16y ago
Basic: easy enough for me to write silly scripts on the old Apple at the back of the classroom Pascal: you kept me from falling in love with programming before I declared Physics Mathematica: your ability to solve symbolic equations is asto
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by gammarator 16y ago
An interesting question for the DSLR makers is what they could learn from the tablet. The pictures are great, but especially at the entry level there's opportunity for improved interfaces and easier publishing. ( http://www.bythom.com/des
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In the age of the iPhone, what should your DSLR be doing?(bythom.com)
1 points by gammarator 16y ago|0 comments
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by gammarator 16y ago
You can make email addresses private on Facebook, so that none of your friends can see them. However, people who already have your email address can use it to find you. Facebook and Google are using those email addresses for very differe
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by gammarator 16y ago
Thanks for pointing to this very thorough response which addresses the concerns of the letter. I don't think the authors of the letter are spreading FUD, however: they're asking for more information about the means by which the dose is bei
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by gammarator 16y ago
That's not his main thesis, that's his opening anecdote. His main point is that the experience of elite education can shape one's values and expectations in a way that are negative for the individual and for society.
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by gammarator 16y ago
Weighted GPAs can be higher than 4.0: A+ grades in advanced courses are often given 5.0 points, and so on.
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by gammarator 16y ago
Better: use this plugin: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ It uses the native Quartz PDFKit backend.