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by mapt 1y ago
The very first thing you have to learn about original research is the basis of the experimental scientific method, of the idea of empiricism and improvement through reason, observation, and iterative comparative testing. It is a little bit
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by mapt 1y ago
I wanted to examine this numerically. * Great Value Original Vanilla Lowfat Yogurt, 32 oz Serving size 3/4 cup (170g) 1.5g fat 26g carbs (21 of which are sugar) 5g protein 130 kcal * Great Value Greek Plain Nonfat Yogurt, 32 oz Tub Ser
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by mapt 1y ago
We don't get it from raw bomb calorimetry ("Burn it and measure how hot it gets"). There are additional absorption coefficients applied before the nutrition label is printed. But for proteins, fats, and simple carbohydrates
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by mapt 1y ago
However bad these algorithms are (and we're talking very wide intervals in multiple dimensions of uncertainty), you could immediately improve the vision/volume calculation part with a modest change - like requiring a size referenc
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by mapt 1y ago
One of the skills that students are typically terrible at is convincingly recreating the flow of a conversation that is written down. Shakespeare, spoken in meter-less monotone with none of the prosody that indicates actual speech by a h
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by mapt 1y ago
Having a logarithmic scale is a very different feature than having this one symbol to express all logarithmic scales with contextual meanings that sometimes need to be incorporated as two or three separate variations in a conversation. Why
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by mapt 1y ago
I can intuit that you hated me the moment you saw me at the interview. Because I've observed how hatred works, and I have a decent Theory of Mind model of the human condition. I can't tell if you hate me because I'm Arab, if
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by mapt 1y ago
Paper claims that the innovation of this category of materials is about manufacturability. Organic TEMs can be spray-on thin films and foams filled with cheap bulk powders, rather than growing inorganic planar semiconductors; The downsides
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by mapt 1y ago
I'm sure you know, but even seeing the distinction between "Classically Mexican names" and "Náhuatl names" strikes me as weird, since the place we get the word "Mexico" is the "Mexica" tribe that
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by mapt 1y ago
This is getting away from the topic, but the capital cost of most solar hot water heaters and their inflexibility with regard to clouds, solar angle, and outside temperatures has made using photovoltaics to resistively heat water a better d
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by mapt 1y ago
> The report somehow fails to mention the bit where the Silicon Valley VC and executive crowd worked their backsides off to elect Trump and several of them sat in the front row at his inauguration. Then they were actually surprised when
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by mapt 1y ago
Eggs have often been a notable loss leader in supermarkets. The business tolerance of that status is reliant on specific cost expectations, and retailer behavior has varied in response to the price hikes. While egg prices are going to vary
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by mapt 1y ago
Polymarket had this guy at something like 1%. Enjoy your winnings, modellers.
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by mapt 1y ago
The container is the standardization. One container per unit of product. Containers ("bins") dimensioned in multiples of some standard unit that evenly divides a grid system on a rack. Stuffing looks like "a pallet of iden
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by mapt 1y ago
I'm thinking that 9,400 are probably not the only meaningful research programs being funded. https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2024/appropriations The "Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024"
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by mapt 1y ago
"Meticulous" in industrial automation does not mean "Precise without the use of feedback-driven control loops".
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by mapt 1y ago
This seems insane. We're trying to teach Longshoreman's Tetris to machines, instead of using the system of standard containerization that almost completely replaced longshoremen, despite lower packing densities.
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by mapt 1y ago
Anyone have any idea where First Light Fusion's third machine fits into this? The idea of using literal guns (gunpowder, then light gas gun, then coil gun) to impact projectiles against each other seemed like it was probably ludicrous,
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by mapt 1y ago
> Then there's the diesel cost. A large bus must get ~ 10 mpg highway, but a city bus is all stop and go - disastrous for a vehicle as massive as a bus. Let's say it gets 4 mpg. $4/gal diesel * 30 mph average speed /
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by mapt 1y ago
I would also wonder whether cultures are compatible with mass spec, and what the bottleneck is on measurement. Culturing for optical microscopy seems like you need 1-10 DAYS before you get enough of a colony going to identify things, assumi
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by mapt 1y ago
This is a false dichotomy. It doesn't have to be used for every patient, and it doesn't have to be kept around waiting for Doctor House's third act. There is nothing stopping you from a middle ground.
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by mapt 1y ago
I don't think this has been debunked. I think it's an omnipresent concern in people with 10-20% kidney function left, and outside that cohort, it's a concern if you're getting a supermajority of your calories from protei
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by mapt 1y ago
It ended humanity's existence? No? Not yet? Okay. Good. In fact, great! I like existing. For now. "Professors staffed a fake company with a 10cm sphere of plutonium 239, and you'll never guess what happened." Egg on
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by mapt 1y ago
Yes? You could mention something about "Losing 80% of their population of fighting-age men and nearly losing their capital city to German aggression before turning the tide" and something about the race against the other Allies, b
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by mapt 1y ago
That depends on your latitude, how dear land is, and how close to breakeven your application is. For a lot of applications, panels are so goddamn cheap now and breakeven happens so fast that "Just buy twice as many panels" is the
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by mapt 1y ago
Grid scale solar benefits from bifacial cells in a vertical orientation just as much as home scale solar - it dramatically improves winter production and extends the production of the spring/fall day a few hours earlier and a few hours
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by mapt 1y ago
They currently vote different, but there are a few things they have in common. They're both ridiculously disenfranchised in the Senate. They've both got significant antivax elements. They've both got a very large Hispanic pop
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by mapt 1y ago
It would be gauche to attack Tulsi Gabbard, because you would have to start with her connections to Russia's Assadist interests and to RT & the Russian web brigades, and we have established (we voted on it) that any connection to R
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by mapt 1y ago
I saw the writing on the wall when I had to install a couple 150MB IDEs to run 101-level Java programs in the mid 2000's. 150 megabytes. MEGABYTES. I could consume about 1 kilobyte per minute of fantasy novel text in uncompressed AS
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by mapt 1y ago
It could easily turn out to be a not very severe problem, like "Use rayon instead of polyester for your clothing" or "No more styrofoam, because styrene monomer offgassing in your lungs"; The issue is that without a lot

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