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by maxnoe 8y ago
The Aplle reflects light with a peak at a wavelength of around 600 nm.
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To add another moon reference: A normal cell phone on the moon would be the third brightest radio source in the sky.
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by maxnoe 8y ago
To add another moon reference, a cell phone on the moon would be the third brightest radio source in the sky.
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On which map projection?
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by maxnoe 8y ago
This should be normalized to tue number of flights (if the problems are related to starting/landing) or to flight hours (general problems that might appear mid air) Time is not a very usefull thing here, as number of active aircraft an
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Historically, the "pixels" are mostly round photomultiplier tubes. So the natural way to place those is a hexagonal grid. o o o o o o o The pixels are very sensitive, we can register single photons with a tim
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Hey, I'm an astrophysicist in high energy gamma ray astronomy. Or telescope sensors have hexagonal pixels. You website is awesome and helped a lot writing the coordinate trafos and other stuff. We always recommended it to everyone inv
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> Github has an infamous history with imposing their feelings on projects they don't like. Can you elaborate on this part? I don't remember seeing something like this before.
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English version: http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden...
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Read his speach for 40 years end of WWII in Germany: http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Richard-v...
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There is no difference. Quantum Mechanics is the current theory of particle physics.
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The thing is, theory can never provide evidence for anything. This is what experiments do.
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"They" is a pretty broad term. Physicist's convention is to call a 99.7 (3 sigma) per cent chance a "hint" and only a 5 sigma effect a detection.
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Then, is getting a driver upstreamed for linux really harder than getting it trusted/signed for Windows or macOS?
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This is because you create a python float (64-bit) before passing this float to the Decimal class. >>> a = 9999999999999999.0 >>> a 1e+16
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I really don't get the mantra of "implement only the shortest solution that makes the test pass" I would add a very important second part here "you think is correct". An introduction to TDD that starts by implement
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Not Invented Here (Syndrom)
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This is changing. Slowly, as it seems to be mostly a generational issue. The younger scientists, current PhD generation and a little up are all fed up with closed source/private data as there are no enough bright examples how good open
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Astroparticle physicist here. I work in gammay-ray astronomy. We work closely together with LIGO, they alert us in case something interesting happens so we can observe the same position. This is e.g. what happened with the Neutron star merg
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All three points you mentioned are true for large parts of physics research. The point is: Not so for LIGO. The data is open, the code is open. They even had Jupiter notebooks doing the later parts of the analysis when they published the fi
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To be fair, this is probably far from being "released"
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In German, it is Majestix for the chief and Gutemine for his wife. Gutemine is a play on German saying "Gute Miene zu Bösem Spiel", meaning keeping a happy face in bad circumstances.
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For some: yes! But for most physics students it's an annoying linux experience that will make them go back to windows which they also get for free from the university.
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I have Students coming to me very regularly with linux problems. If it's wifi, it's always a realtek card. Mostly those cheap 300€ HP 15" Laptops.
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It only needs to be operational until the James Webb Telescope is available. As soon as this happens, most astronomers will jump ship anyway
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I wrote a python package to install texlive without user interaction in a customizable way. Not installing docs and sources already shaves off half. It takes ~5 minutes on travis when I only install what I need. https://github.c
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You cannot simplify a problem by claiming it's too hard to solve for most people. It's just the way it is. Python 3 completely removed the need for us to talk about unicode and encodings in our third semester data analysis worksho
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How so? I have access several windows 10 machines and don't even use a Microsoft account on them.
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The Thing is, in today's physics experiments at that scale, you cannot distinguish the amounts of work. Basically everyone in the collaboration will have a non-zero share. A paper about a specific analysis would not be possible without
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The thing is, reality is under no obligation to care about your feelings. I don't like the idea men live shorter than woman, but that's reality. Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. And

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