mturmon

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by mturmon 5y ago
Look at Vapnik’s publications and affiliations around this time (1990 to 1997). He was working at a research group at ATT Labs with people like Corinna Cortes, León Bottou, and Yann LeCun. He had just come over from Russia, as did many tech
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by mturmon 5y ago
I used ```makesite.py``` as a template for a small site of 100-200 pages that I maintain. It has worked quite well. The animating idea ("use this as a template but don't be afraid to customize or reinvent certain parts") libe
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by mturmon 5y ago
I understand there are shortages of Romex style electrical cable, not because of copper, but because of insulation. Perhaps because of the resin issue you mention?
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yes, and the plants in the tropics (North and South) don't show strong seasonality. Here's a plot of a few CO2 swings versus latitude ( https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/other_stations/... ) --
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by mturmon 5y ago
This is correct. CO2 is well-mixed, both laterally and vertically. Mauna Loa observatory is at about 4200 meters, or 0.6 atmospheres. At that atmospheric height, CO2 should generally be within ~10ppm of the concentration anywhere above the
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by mturmon 5y ago
This is true. It's not universal, though, because some plant growth is not primarily gated by CO2 availability -- e.g., in drier climates.
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by mturmon 5y ago
Annual periodicity of CO2 is due to seasonal drawdown of C by greening-up plants in the Northern Hemisphere.
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by mturmon 5y ago
I read the article. It's highly speculative, making extrapolations tens to hundreds of years with very little evidence or physics. I have publications in this area. And given the above deficiencies, I started wondering about where it w
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yes. I linked below a slide set by a Lee Petersen, JPL engineer who was instrumental in setting up the uncertainty accounting for the Mars lander EDL system - both Curiosity and Perseverance. (Among other uses of UQ for engineered systems a
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by mturmon 5y ago
OK, so that second citation is very odd: - It's in a journal called "Temperature" with the mandate: "Temperature publishes papers related to interactions between living matter and temperature, with focus on the medical p
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by mturmon 5y ago
Nixon admits within the tape that he's trying to incite Kissinger, whom he is addressing. Both of them knew the risks of increasing the stakes in Vietnam. The threat of Chinese reaction to American over-reach was very real. It happened
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by mturmon 5y ago
> They won because they took part in the war with a sense of righteousness. This belief is certainly reflected in one of the best books I've read about the Vietnam War, A Bright Shining Lie , by Neil Sheehan, who was a reporter the
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yes. Facilitating communications is just a general good thing. The improvised relay system we have around Mars has been important to fast relay of data from the rovers. It has also allowed us to more closely observe EDL sequences so that if
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by mturmon 5y ago
Here's a technical review of the (engineering, not science) imaging system for Perseverance, published in November 2000 before a touchdown in February 2021: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020
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by mturmon 5y ago
Helpful comment. So for instance, if OP can address in some way what their issue is, i.e., if it's an "easy to manage" question, maybe there's a fig leaf to address it. (E.g., I'll be present on slack or whatever w
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by mturmon 5y ago
Yep, some research-oriented DS people are (rightly) obsessed (correct word) with a particular family of techniques (variational inference! random forests! adversarial networks!) and work to find problems to apply that family to. They litera
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by mturmon 5y ago
Brilliantly put. And moreover, regarding some comments nearby, there was an original commandant in the penal colony who instituted the penalty, and developed the machine. Maybe he knew why? Over time, the machine has broken down, and all c
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by mturmon 5y ago
The social tactic could have been changed from "we will revert all recent patches originating from UMN" to "we are forced to review all recent patches originating from UMN, and to enforce stricter scrutiny of UMN patches goin
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by mturmon 6y ago
I don't think !$ is properly understood as a readline feature. It's a sh/bash abbreviation. !! -> last whole command !!:1 -> first argument of last command !!:$ -> last argument of last command !$ -> abbreviation
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by mturmon 6y ago
Not my area of expertise, but the typical use case given in the Signal blog post supposes an "unlocked device in your hands" -- > ...One way to think about Cellebrite’s products is that if someone is physically holding your unl
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by mturmon 6y ago
There are some debates in the comments involving process-based comparisons, e.g., when carbon release from decay outweighs carbon sinking from plant metabolism. It may be helpful to give this top-level summary from the National Climate Asse
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by mturmon 6y ago
These two questions (Arecibo and SpaceX) are orthogonal. Arecibo is ground-based science. SpaceX is access to Earth orbit, not really anything to do with science or research. NSF is an agency promoting research. It is continually handing
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by mturmon 6y ago
I also pulled up when reading that quote (and "explanation" is the name Strevens chose). But the next sentences show precisely what he means by "explanation" -- >> ...scientists [] resolve their differences of opi
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by mturmon 6y ago
You're focusing on the apparent triviality of the coursework ("learn about how to string simple API calls together ... just reading the documentation and tutorials on various websites") versus the stellar skills and knowledge
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by mturmon 6y ago
Point well taken.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I think you're myopically focused on a certain reading, so as mentioned, won't engage further.
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by mturmon 6y ago
> California, by contrast, reacted to an identical court ruling in 2008 by banning same-sex marriage until all such laws were overturned in 2015. This is a cherry-picked example and a bad-faith argument. You're trying to portray the
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by mturmon 6y ago
Since we're on the subject, here's a link to a beautifully-written 1999 piece on the transitory nature of the 80s East Village scene, from which Basquiat emerged: https://www.artforum.com/print/199908/cri
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by mturmon 6y ago
I'm not sure if you've seen it already, but here's an essay-length elaboration of some of these ideas: https://aeon.co/essays/why-repetition-can-turn-almost-anythi... It references the same speech-to-son
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by mturmon 6y ago
Or, to widen the possibilities somewhat, by Cuban interests who would prefer to not have normalized relations with the US, and who could enlist technically-advanced outside help — perhaps from Russia, but not necessarily the Russian governm

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