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by gnramires 6y ago
It is important to learn when to give up too. I guess this isn't talked about as much. Give up what you dislike or don't have real potential in favor of what you love etc. There are countless good examples of course; off the top o
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by gnramires 7y ago
He might be referring to transparent/translucent/refractive objects, like a glass cup. Supposedly this technique can manage the transparency, but not refraction (and maybe the refraction could trip the transparency into failing).
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by gnramires 7y ago
Oh yes, I definitely messed up my calculations. Half life is (inversely) proportional to the reaction rate itself I guess (I were associating it with the exponent, because half life is usually in the exponent), so the half life itself would
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by gnramires 7y ago
Can confirm. For general knowledge I recommend two fantastic channels: (1) Click Spring (2) Matthias Wandel. They're always doing interesting things and usually some technique comes up in the videos that I didn't know of. There ar
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by gnramires 7y ago
Not sure where his 500k years figure comes from. A cursory search gives 521 years: https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.1... Chemical decay tends to follow Arrhenius equation: https://e
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by gnramires 7y ago
This doesn't quite match Information Theory. First of all, if you were to use the image as a communication channel, how much you could theoretically communicate is exactly the entropy of messages (by definition), and optimal communicat
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by gnramires 7y ago
If you want a quick, casual conversation, I don't see why pseudonyms wouldn't be sufficient. You can also use random names if you're asking something really sensitive, which you would want to do in any case because it's
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by gnramires 7y ago
that's why you use pseudonyms ;)
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by gnramires 7y ago
Indeed, I believe IQ is found to be protective for development of schizophrenia (hence lower IQ correlation) -- if you have the genetic disposition but high IQ chances of developing the disease are lower I believe. Schizophrenia is differen
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by gnramires 7y ago
Agreed. I think there's plenty of space to make a difference in tech. I don't think it's automatic in any way (i.e. making a positive social impact) -- I think the choices of every CEO and every worker matter. Facebook and&#x
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by gnramires 7y ago
Could be inherited from arabic as cited by another (does all western numbering system derive from hindu-arabic?). What really intrigues me is why specially the tens are reversed. If it were some practical utility or reliability feature (say
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by gnramires 7y ago
I guess it could be analogous to watching say a circus (say Cirque du Soleil) presentation with a story and a presentation without a story -- one with just actors doing impressive stunts, the other with a narrative, clothings, a coherent ae
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by gnramires 7y ago
> The question is can that basic concept work without the mumbojumbo I used to think like that too, but I'm more open that sometimes a story, any story, allegory can be helpful in many contexts, by creating an identity, an aesthetic
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by gnramires 7y ago
You can make a simple theory of anything. An airplane as a spherical ball of varying friction with a steerable propulsion. Or a massive electro-mechanical system. There's a fidelity curve as you progress in complexity. Fidelity curve o
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by gnramires 7y ago
That's correct, essentially you can apply Newton's law (F = dp/dt): the propellers over wings can produce a strong downward momentum flux (air flux) that by reaction generates lift (upward force). Without this flux being dire
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by gnramires 7y ago
If ABO type is independent from age/wealth/etc., then those variables don't need to be controlled (although I guess that should indeed be investigated/confirmed first).
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by gnramires 7y ago
Probably not, it needs to be laser-illuminated.