mturmon

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by mturmon 4y ago
As @perihelions just noted, the explanation for the stripes you can see is provided in the article, just as you seem to be hoping for?
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by mturmon 4y ago
SOFIA has been flying since 2014, so the lack of influential publications is not for lack of analysis time.
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Ukraine war made hacking Russia a free-for-all(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by mturmon 4y ago|1 comments
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by mturmon 5y ago
Explanatory twitter thread: https://twitter.com/emeryberger/status/1517227874507444227
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Slipcover: Near Zero-Overhead Python Code Coverage(github.com)
3 points by mturmon 5y ago|1 comments
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After invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia(twitter.com)
6 points by mturmon 5y ago|0 comments
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by mturmon 5y ago
OK, in your hallmark #1, I suppose you're distinguishing between, say, topographic or land-cover maps that come from remote sensing and that might be useful in flood risk assessment, versus property-valuation or storm-drainage infrastr
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by mturmon 5y ago
I found the argument(s) interesting although the animations hurt readability and clarity. I've watched the area of commercialized remote sensing products with some interest, because I'm in the non-commercial remote sensing line.
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yes. In the simplified linear setting we're considering... If you want to do dimension reduction and only have X, use PCA. If you want to do dimension reduction and also have a "y", consider PLS or CCA (canonical correlation
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yes. And the consequences of the pre-1976 smog exemption are all too clear to anyone driving behind an older car on the freeway. There's no snow where I live, so these beautiful old heaps can stay on the road far longer than is healthy
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by mturmon 5y ago
This same owner encouraged customers to avoid paying state sales tax on their purchases -- and then, when the state of California wanted to collect the tax, threatened to divest his company of all California workers. And then dragged his fe
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by mturmon 5y ago
Tuple, list, and numpy array are all different isinstance()’s, so I’d have to call them all out. len() avoids that.
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by mturmon 5y ago
Great anecdote, thanks for sharing your dissertation ;)
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by mturmon 5y ago
There is no reason a priori to believe that integration and test of one of a kind space cryocoolers scales the same way postage does, or batching out parts at a drill press. I’d suggest that it’s on you to demonstrate why these analogies sh
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by mturmon 5y ago
You have indeed raised this idea before. The replies in other threads, among people familiar with this design space, will be the same here, as they were before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29855830 ). Namely: These
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by mturmon 5y ago
The baseline take on what happened with Webb is that too many low-readiness technologies were included when the mission was approved and went into “Phase A” which means that development starts. The entire astrophysics community suffered as
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by mturmon 5y ago
Your $100B figure should be $10B, for Webb. Ingenuity was an about $80M part of Perseverance which was $2.4B in total.
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yep, here's how it plays out: Python 3.8.5 (default, Sep 4 2020, 02:22:02) [Clang 10.0.0 ] :: Anaconda, Inc. on darwin >>> d=dict() >>> l=[1,2,3] >>> d[l]=42 Traceback (most recent call last):
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by mturmon 5y ago
Alas, I find this suggestion unpersuasive for the use I have in mind. I get that there would be cases it does apply to. I just want to enforce that the object acts like a list, mainly versus a float, int, or boolean. Tuples are definitely 1
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by mturmon 5y ago
I often use the same if len() construct. It will fail for non-list inputs, which is another reason it can be handy if you want clarify that you’re enforcing a list.
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by mturmon 5y ago
Twitter has a place. There's nothing else that gives deep reach into professional niches. I've learned a lot from epidemiology twitter (no pre-existing knowledge base from me) and from science and applied math twitter that's
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by mturmon 5y ago
Exactly! The real decision you're making with scientific codes in lightly-explored problem domains is, how permanent and versatile of a solution do I need here? Alas, the OP is deploying some CS abstractions to genericize very simple p
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by mturmon 5y ago
The sample mean of a Normal RV does tend towards the population expected value, sure. The GP comment is talking about a Cauchy RV, which has heavy tails. So it has enough probability mass at large values that the expected value is infinite.
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by mturmon 5y ago
That's one effect. But in the western US, this effect turns out not to be the driver for hydrology. We've seen higher temperatures (causing more evapotranspiration), more highly-variable rainfall (thus, more precipitation lost to
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by mturmon 5y ago
If you have some time, and are interested in engineering, troubleshooting, investigation techniques, complex systems, or just general meticulous care, it’s worth reading the Columbia Accident Investigation Baord report (Volume 1). It’s a ma
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yes, and it’s worth pointing out that there had been previous NASA experience with loss of craft and loss of life, so the contingency plan was very real.
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by mturmon 5y ago
It's a long road. I'll enlarge a bit on @dannyz's explanation you can see nearby. I happen to know one thread of work on the space-based CH4 detection problem...here is one early publication, from 2011: https://agu
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by mturmon 5y ago
OK, here's another source for a different instance of Covid misinformation that comes out of Rogan's own mouth: https://futurism.com/neoscope/joe-rogan-destroyed-guest You can see him using motivated reasonin
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by mturmon 5y ago
I agree that the term "random key" seems his own invention. It worked for me. I wonder if he also used it in the earlier material on plain random variables?
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by mturmon 5y ago
Increasingly, there are applications for NASA science data taken about the Earth: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov Some of that webpage is a bit fluffy for the HN audience, but trust me, look underneath and there's a lot of

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