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by jsweojtj 11y ago
There are a couple of reasons that this isn't the explanation. To pick one, the random data selection in the blog post showed data from October 2015 -- Feb 2016, and this Caltrain link appears to show the bridge work starting Feb 26th,
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
An API would go a long way and realtime information would obviously be awesome. It appears that even if Caltrain provided historical data of actual departure times per train per station, that would be a huge improvement.
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Analyzing Caltrain Delays(svds.com)
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
A further layman explanation by a researcher in this field: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~mmurphy/research/are-natures-l... specifically the section titled "Aside: Is it e or c varying?"
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
You've got this backward. Alpha is the fundamental physical constant: c, e and \hbar are the derived quantities. I'll quote part of another comment that I left on this thread: > Now for a piece that's more interesting. The
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
You've got the right intuition here. The unitless part is key for several reasons. It means that the number itself is meaningful. In your example, the ratio of 1.7 long/wide would be the same no matter what units used to make the
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
I completely agree that regional adjustments should not be made. A single and uniform monetary amount should be given to all. Otherwise a runaway effect is bound to happen. The places people most want to live (say Hawaii), are more expensiv
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Developing in a Microservice Environment(svds.com)
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Legends in D3(d3-legend.susielu.com)
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
I'm reading the Readme -- what's RIA?
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
I really like this idea!
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
It happens all the time, and it comes from a mix of things. One way it happens is that you get a PhD in astrophysics with years of data analysis experience in for a data science job. Have a software engineer interview her and he might find
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The Limits of Discourse – Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky(samharris.org)
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Six PEN Members Decline Gala After Award for Charlie Hebdo(nytimes.com)
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
Thank you for this more detailed comment. It does a nice job capturing the essentials of the paper.
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
I've always hoped that the PaperBricks, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3523 model would catch on. My summary of the idea: There is an awful lot of redundancy and wasted effort that goes into most papers. From introduct
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
Would you say that the Christian belief that Jesus was born of a virgin is one of those "fact-beliefs" or "faith-beliefs"?
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
You're thinking WWII.
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by jsweojtj 11y ago
> Not all religions believe the same thing. ... Not every religion is the same. The article doesn't even suggest anything of the sort. Further, it extends "religious thinking" to include things that aren't religious i
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Faith vs. Facts(nytimes.com)
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
No. No no no no no no no.
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
Out of clothes today, out of detergent, as well. Hi UPS man.
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
They linked to the Anscombe's code, but I wish they also linked to the code that produced the rest of the analysis. Looks cool and I wish I could run it myself!
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
The fundamental constant you're looking for is the fine-structure constant (often referred to as alpha). It's a dimensionless ratio of physical constants, and if its value changes, physics is different.
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
> And of course, if one also has a scale, the weight of the ball can be used to see whether the floor is level. Can you elaborate on this? Why would the weight be different if non-level? Unless you're meaning that the center-of-mass
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
We should distinguish "testable in principle" and "testable in practice". Simply because it is currently not testable in practice, does not mean that it's not testable in principle. Saying a scientific hypothesis is
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
While I can imagine that being amazing if that could be done well, but it seems like a really difficult problem to get right. I would prefer an approach like PaperBricks caught on instead: http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3523
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Topology of decisionmaking – are you secretly managing by metric?(chrisstucchio.com)
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by jsweojtj 12y ago
as an astrophysicist, this one annoyed me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/udoug25cpd2zpiy/Screenshot%202014-...
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Language agnostic ipython notebook – Project Jupyter(jupyter.org)
2 points by jsweojtj 12y ago|0 comments

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