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That's a nice overview paper. There is much value in the gravimetric mapping realm and we're not even close to the limits of what people are imagining. For instance, by combining multiple ultra-precise orbiting clocks with quantu
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A transfer standard is an artifact that is produced at a standards laboratory to be sent to another laboratory for the purpose of calibration of the 2nd laboratory's processes and equipment. " Measurement Assurance Programs are qu
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I'm guessing it was some kind of failed humor response to Paul Ford's thread about his 8-year old vandalizing a wiki page. https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/1298350509221388291
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It is also the case that in some/many areas software has improved performance by several multiples of the improvement in hardware performance over the last 20 years. So it makes sense that this would invigorate software performance in
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I share the expectation of the outcome, but it is vitally important that HN types address the absolutely monumental amount of political effect that tech is having, and the internal policies and biases that are driving it.
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I love this comment, not least because the enumeration leaves one to imagine what level of multi-dimensional punning and irony are being invoked.
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> Mass production is a no-brainer. This is very much an unproven assumption. There is nothing in the history of nuclear technology to suggest that what most industries experience, an industrial learning curve that lowers production cost,
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SARS-Cov-2 binds to ACE receptors, which are present in cardiac muscle. The inflammation seems to be typical of how the immune system responds to this virus.
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No, what's being asked for is evidence that the system being developed does not result in an increase in inequity in the real world. That's testable, and achievable. The list of promos/booster articles posted is not any for
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I sampled a few of those links, and without exception they all touted the true positive matches without any mention of false positives, nor of what consequences were visited upon the innocents who were pipelined in to the criminal system by
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Have you ever wondered why you can't eat fish caught in wilderness lakes over much of the American west? Because of mercury levels, courtesy of coal-burning power plants. It goes up the smokestack and lands in the food chain. This is
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The leading nuclear attack dog, whose name I will not mention here, spends much time attacking renewables, especially wind and solar, as "the enemy" and "destroying the planet". He gets lots of dark funding, and it co
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Interesting, I just went to the repo's README and followed the directions for conda and had it installed and running in 3 commands.
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If the limit of one's experience with arrays is summing a column or row of numbers, perhaps one is not the target audience for an array programming language. Summing along an index is about the most trivial application of array proces
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Why would you pick the most trivial example, rather than something that shows the high-level expressiveness of J et. al.?
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AOL bought ICQ in the very early days of messaging.
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In addition to the digital computers in the 2nd half, analog computers for naval guns were commonly fielded in the early parts of the 20th century.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangekeeper
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"The first fully functioning electronic digital computer to be built in the U.S. was ENIAC, constructed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, for the Army Ordnance Department, by J. Presper Eckert a
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DHS is already training up vigilante militia[1]. Don't underestimate what this administration is willing to do. "attendees will participate in scenario-based training and exercises conducted in a safe and positive environment, i
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This is what a completely immoral capitalist sounds like. Is it impossible for the owner to reach out to tenants? Ask them how they are doing and what their payment prospects are? If true stress is indicated (it will be obvious which are re
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A lot of diesel engines have a certain amount of blow-by, which is exhaust pressurizing the crankcase by bypassing e.g. the piston rings. This can leak out from valve rocker covers, etc.
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This was somewhat the approach used in the ATLAS[1] linear algebra library. In the ATLAS case, systems were characterized through testing and a set of parameters generated. Then at installation time code was generated to match the system
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Since those patients also received steroids in addition to hydroxychloroquine, it is fallacious to attribute any outcome to hydroxychloroquine. This is a poorly done, observational-only study with a major confounding flaw.
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Article I, Section 2 of the constitution requires the government to conduct a decennial census, and empowers congress to make such law as it may direct to implement it. One could easily see a national identity system to be justified as part
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> When nuclear is shut down, it gets replaced with something worse. Often coal! The implication that this is what happened in Germany is misinformation. None of the energy production of retired nuclear plants in Germany was replaced
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Derek Lowe's latest commentary on SARS-COV-2 immunity and this paper specifically: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/ne...
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It did indeed induce ketogenesis, in fact regular testing of urine for presence of ketone bodies was how one monitored whether their carb intake was appropriate
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> But I don't understand why a perfectly replicated painting by an art student is worth less than the aged original I would suggest that this is because you place no value on the act of creation, the creative genius that pulls the
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> Apparently it's hateful to want overweight and obese people to change their behavior so that they are better able to fight off deadly viruses in the future. Yes, it is, in that it is in practice simply a way to discard their hum
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This reply is little more than an invitation to begin yet another /r/fatpeoplehate thread. The article's conclusions are about slow walking pace, not obesity. > Slow walkers had the highest risk of severe COVID19 regardl

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