mattkrause

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by mattkrause 5mo ago
Ha! I’d never thought about it like that but…yeah. I suspect another big part of it is that marketing and sales are relatively easy to measure and to scale. You can hire one, two, or three new salespeople and expect that revenue will chan
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
And I’m sure those companies also have “backlogs" due to limited labor/labor costs. There are always shelves to face, vehicles with deferred maintenance, and so on. Obviously, there are limits: I’m not sure what my local grocery s
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
I wouldn't say "called into question", as if the whole idea is bunk. MRI is, in general, a lot harder than people often imagine. It uses complicated physics to measure convoluted physiological changes to indirectly measure br
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
I'd be surprised if it were possible to directly measure muscle activity with millimetre wave radar. It looks like they're detecting motion, which is related to motor activity, of course. EEG "spellers" c. 2000 requi
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
The man who mysteriously disappeared whilst swimming has a Naval Communications station and a pool complex named after him?! Amazing!
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
There’s a cute study demonstrating this effect by comparing career success in economics and psychology. The author lists for economics papers are traditionally alphabetized, so more of your output will be known by your name if it occurs ear
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
Cmon…We’re saying that a certain style of reference gives her less credit than might be due. Not none at all. One paper doesn’t make a career (she wrote many dozens), it’s not always cited weirdly, and even if it is, some people may reme
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
I don’t know that everyone would label it like that, but it’s inarguably true that success in academia comes from your reputation/name recognition. Metrics are often attempts to formalize this but they’re not how most people actually m
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by mattkrause 5mo ago
The automated ones don't care, but it absolutely matters for the informal credit assignment process that actually runs academia. I really wish we had a better way to "name" papers. Big clinical trials often have an acronym (o
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
You rediscovered normal saline! The plain water hurts because it's causing cells to swell or even burst as water rushes into them to equalize the osmotic pressure. Adding a little bit of salt to that helps remove that pressure because
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
I don't think carprofen has been sold for human use in ages! Still available as a veterinary medicine though.
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
Inertia doesn't really seem like it would lead to 300% YoY growth... OTOH, National Lampoon hasn't put out a magazine since 1998 or a film since 2015 (and that was a retrospective on the magazine). I guess I'd agree that, in
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
In case people are missing the joke... Willian Proxmire was a Senator from Wisconsin who was strongly opposed to government spending on basic research. He gave out "Golden Fleece" awards for studies that he thought were absurd.
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
It's been a long time, but the gasket itself was probably a millimetre or two thick, squeezed extremely tightly by the screws in the battery cover. It ran on AA or AAA batteries, and they took about about half or a third of the depth.
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
65,000 print subscribers (on par with the Boston Globe !) and 300% revenue growth last year suggests they're doing okay. https://www.fastcompany.com/91502944/the-onion-most-innovati...
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
The Onion has been around since 1988, so...decent staying power.
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
I used to think that but.... I've reviewed for a few "replication tracks" at ML Conferences and there are a surprising number of reports where people are simply unable to replicate published results. The reasons are all over
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
Fifteen years ago, I had a Garmin GPS (admittedly not a phone, but similar form factor) that survived a week of knocking around the bottom of a raft. The battery compartment had a rubber gasket and some very tight screws.
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
There’s an even stronger reason not to given in the same document: "The special names becquerel, gray and sievert were specifically introduced because of the dangers to human health that might arise from mistakes involving the units re
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
The dose (often) makes the poison. Citrus fruit itself is generally regarded as fine to eat. Concentrating the oils can make them irritating (and flammable, etc) but that’s essentially undone by diluting them into a syrup and then diluting
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
It might be more helpful to write a Rust-based snark detector first.
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by mattkrause 6mo ago
The point is that blank lets you measure that level of "background" contamination, which you then use to correct the measurements made on actual samples. Suppose you measure around 100 plastic particles per unit in your blank and
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by mattkrause 7mo ago
I guess this depends on whether you think the system was deliberately designed to be “abusive” or has evolved some blind spots/legacy issues. In this case, I’d guess “fax in your documents” was, long ago, meant to be an improvement ove
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by mattkrause 7mo ago
In fact, writing to your Congressional rep is probably the way to solve this. They usually offer "casework" services where a staffer will facilitate their constituent's interactions with federal agencies. This would probabl
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by mattkrause 7mo ago
That's not entirely true. The Secure Equipment Act itself was passed in 2021, but the law itself doesn't proscribe any particular equipment or manufacturers. Instead, tells the FCC to create a list and delegates listing duties t
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by mattkrause 7mo ago
It should be THREE hyphens for an em-dash!
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by mattkrause 7mo ago
Just plain bicycles, actually.
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by mattkrause 8mo ago
The general idea of an EEG system that posts data to a network? Very, but there are already tons of them at lots of different price, quality, openness levels. A lot of manufacturers have their own protocols; there are also quasi/standa
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by mattkrause 8mo ago
Simplification can be good---but they've removed the wrong half here! The notifications act as an overall progress bar and give you a general sense of what Claude Code is doing: is it looking in the relevant part of your codebase, or
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by mattkrause 9mo ago
Research is going up; clinical is going down. The idea behind the recent boom in low-field stuff is that you'd like to have small/cheap machines that can be everywhere and produce good-enough images through smarts (algorithms, des

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