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by m_dupont 3y ago
Yeah the title here really overstates the strength of the conclusions. Didn't read every table in the paper but they clearly state that a linear fit was parsimonious with the data, and adding quadratic and exponential terms only modest
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by m_dupont 3y ago
thankyou, that actually cleared things up for me
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by m_dupont 3y ago
I'm a little late to the party but hopefully someone can still answer this question. In order to solve the linear system of equations in this framework, you need to integrate a measurement of the system over some time greater than t_0
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by m_dupont 3y ago
Unfortunately this isnt correct. We know it has the opposite charge. This is due to conservation laws which include, among other things, the conservation of charge. In a given interaction, charge is always conserved. So we see interaction
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by m_dupont 4y ago
Idk why this is getting downvoted. There's a book called 'Breath' by james nestor where he devotes a lot of time to this theory. The book itself is mixed in terms of scientific quality but I found the stuff about diet influen
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by m_dupont 4y ago
Was a tad disappointed to find out that they were talking about the financial health of the american consumer.
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by m_dupont 4y ago
Yes, but the crucial difference is that online you're competing with everyone else in your city, in a bar you're only competing with the other guys in the bar. There's a strong winner-takes-all effect online
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by m_dupont 4y ago
Physicist here. You are correct. The uncertainty principle doesnt turn space into some sort of voxel grid. While we still don't know what spacetime looks like at the smallest scales (we're still waiting on a quantum theory of grav
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by m_dupont 4y ago
I really wish they hadn't framed it this way. They could have just said "Possible new historical mass extinction event discovered". See, because of the way they have framed it we now have people in the comments arguing about
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by m_dupont 4y ago
I reread the article just then and while he does indeed mention that pumping can be done "easily" he never calculates the energy cost associated with it. In the 5th paragraph of the section titled "what?" He says that &q
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by m_dupont 4y ago
He's completely neglected the energy costs of pumping all that water uphill, which I think may be significant. If we take that 876 million cubic metres of water from his example and pump it to, say, lake mead (also in his example), the
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by m_dupont 4y ago
Yeah the title bugged me as well. Non-contiguous is definitely the right word here. The word nonlinear is massively overused these days.
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by m_dupont 4y ago
I might have not expressed myself well in the previous comment, but when I say that "New species are also continuously emerging", it is to prove that the background extinction rate is not zero, not that we don't have a proble
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by m_dupont 4y ago
Yeah the worst thing is that with the extinction rate, he states that he implicitly sets the background extinction rate to 0 in the year 1000. This is going to bias his 3-point curve fitting even moreso. The background extinction rate in th
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by m_dupont 4y ago
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by m_dupont 4y ago
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