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by mturmon 4y ago
It's not a bad heuristic that the "lit" (up) side is where the radar is coming from. That's the "delay" coordinate, so the top means small delay which means close to observer. But the other (left/right) co
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by mturmon 4y ago
Alas, the above comment is quite mistaken. The microwave reflection from sunlight is too faint to detect. All the information shown comes from the radar beam from Goldstone. The radar imaging process is complex, but suffice to say the shown
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by mturmon 4y ago
Yeah, repeated layoffs really kill the "loyalty", "family" thing that companies try to create. And it tends to make the remaining workforce risk-averse, which is not what Meta has ever stood for. It's a real contrad
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by mturmon 4y ago
Self-replying to point out a more well-informed take on Seymour Hersh's recent writing: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-the-story-with-se...
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> why is Christopher Hitchens changing his politics relevant to a discussion about journalist credibility...? Because, unfortunately to those who admired him, Christopher Hitchens allowed his disgust for Islamic fundamentalism to lead hi
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by mturmon 4y ago
Impressionistic review of the repeated industrial accidents in Ohio, written by someone who originated from the area, in the light of the wearied, sleepwalking response to the latest one in East Palestine, Ohio.
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by mturmon 4y ago
You're jumping to a conclusion here -- sometimes the journalist does change. Plenty of political journalists go off the deep end at some point in their career. (Prof.) Mark Crispin Miller used to write well-researched essays on the c
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by mturmon 4y ago
Best observation I heard relating to this is: As a new parent you go to class for the delivery experience, an experience which lasts for a day or so and is well-supported while it happens by all kinds of staff. You also get a couple of cla
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by mturmon 4y ago
Yes! The surface reflects light it scoops up from the visible hemisphere around it. If some of the hemisphere is sky, then the light cast onto that surface will be tinted blue. I'm not sure if people have access to it, but here's
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by mturmon 4y ago
> ...If you shift that range down so that 0 is in the middle of the range of values instead of the minimum... Not a downvoter, but: your concept of "shifting the range" is also misleading. In the source domain of 16-bit numbers
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by mturmon 4y ago
Yeah, I think use of that term is warranted by the facts. No need to sugar-coat it. Indeed, I'd wish that the HN community was more hostile to Musk's bulldozer approach, seeing what it did to both the company, and the engineers. T
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by mturmon 4y ago
There was a huge back-and-forth about comments by Yann LeCun that the OpenAI work was just a public-facing stunt and No Big Deal [1]. Suffice to say, there was some dissent about Yann's assessment (comparisons to "less space than
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by mturmon 4y ago
The second point highlighted by a "-" is trying to get at that. It's not so much a pure detection issue, it's a tracking issue. My understanding is that the robotic scanning telescopes can detect these objects, but that
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by mturmon 4y ago
I have to agree with both points you make, but especially the second. The selection of topics, and their ordering, is very weird. Like why is there a whole chapter (#4) on Markov Chains, sandwiched between a chapter on the SVD (#3) and an o
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by mturmon 4y ago
I have a Waterpik cordless and it has been very good - the industrial design is meh but it does the job. It's nice to have a simple handheld unit. I have some gaps between teeth that can trap food and cause gum disease. It's used
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by mturmon 4y ago
Unistrut (“strut”) also has trolleys that roll in the track (1). Very useful for overhead roller systems in a workshop. Be very mindful of fastener clearances if installing one. I don’t have the handheld, portable bandsaw (“portaband”) that
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by mturmon 4y ago
Congress mandated that NASA construct a surveillance capability for relatively-large NEOs (larger than the ones in OP), so the detection problem has been well-studied. A little googling will turn them up, but here's what I remember: -
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by mturmon 4y ago
You are hung up on the calibrations needed to turn a series of point-location sensor measurements into an estimate of an underlying quantity (temperature in a 5x5 degree box over time). This kind of calibration is purely routine in any meas
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by mturmon 4y ago
This article very much has rose-colored glasses, a gauzy overlay, and is quite light on actual facts about her reporting. For another viewpoint, see Richard Rushfield's summary: https://theankler.com/p/rushfield-ni
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by mturmon 4y ago
> The future cannot change the past. This statement, like so many of the statements in your comment, is tired climate-denier rhetoric. Past measurements are re-processed all the time, because the map from the measured quantity to the des
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by mturmon 4y ago
Kyle Cramer in the author list is a good bird-site follow BTW.
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by mturmon 4y ago
You raise several points which I’ll try to address. We did develop a surrogate model for this problem, see the narrative and references below eq. 1 of [1]. The surrogate is perhaps 10x faster than the full physics model. It was developed by
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by mturmon 4y ago
Thanks for this submission. I hadn't seen it. A somewhat-related recent study is this National Academies report on simulation-guided discovery systems: https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/realizing-opportu..
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by mturmon 4y ago
I don't disagree, it could be construed as an invitation to a superficial assessment. The point of the algorithm mentioned in my comment is not that it gives correct results, it's that it's one possible entree into a guessing
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by mturmon 4y ago
Agree that this is poorly worded, and objectifying. But it's trying to get at something real. Here's another version of the same idea that isn't entirely wrong, and is also reductive and objectifiying, and meant towards asses
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by mturmon 4y ago
It would appear that you want “—-debug=p” … > Prints the recipe to be executed, even when the recipe is normally silent (due to .SILENT or ‘@’). Also prints the makefile name and line number where the recipe was defined. From the manual,
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by mturmon 4y ago
Here’s an example of those users: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/13/end-nigh-for-th...
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by mturmon 4y ago
It's the release of a much-awaited study in Science today: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063 The authors have been doing work in this direction for several years. Since McKibben's sub
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by mturmon 4y ago
It is indeed unclear. The resolution is that the absolute rogue-wave-height isn't the measure of extreme, it's the rogue-wave-height relative to the typical height. This is explained in TFA if you read carefully. > Scientists d
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by mturmon 4y ago
Not an electrician, but an observer of tradespeople at r/electricians. There are definitely bad feelings about these AFCI breakers. The feeling is that the code mandate for AFCI got out front of the reliability of actually-produced AFC

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