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by mturmon 6y ago
Agree. Relatedly, services, like massage. Or a few months of flower deliveries. Or for the practical, home cleaning or car detailing. Generally, stuff the giftee might not get for themself.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I've been doing this for a couple of years and can vouch that it works.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Now, we use optical scanning telescopes with a wide field of view, and image differencing. Optical instruments have a wide field of view and don't have the inherent SNR problems that radar does. (I.e., using the Sun to illuminate obje
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by mturmon 6y ago
Note: This is an opinion article, and is definitely not a properly-contextualized roundup article on the topic. Noting this clarifies some omissions from the narrative in the article -- e.g., the Sweden "success" is definitely m
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by mturmon 6y ago
Here's a great in-depth news article from Science on a different carbonaceous chondrite strike, in Costa Rica, that touches on the same bargaining issue: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/unusual-
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by mturmon 6y ago
How about the people who thought UN troops in black helicopters would take over the US? Eg, US Congressman Helen Chenoweth, from Idaho. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter
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by mturmon 6y ago
Many incorrect proofs of this postulate were given over the years. (For instance, in some cases these erroneous proofs have steps that implicitly use the postulate itself.) The proof checker could detect such errors in a purportedly clean
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by mturmon 6y ago
Just a note in support of Matlab's sparse capabilities. For the last couple of years, I used Matlab successfully on large, sparse multiplication and factorization problems. A friend who was using R simply could not approach the scale
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by mturmon 6y ago
Really common usage in science/numerical computing. I was trying to identify when, in normal usage, you'd say "numerical codes" rather than "numerical software" or just "numerical code". It seems a b
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by mturmon 6y ago
One of the usual examples given in reaction to this question is the puzzle of Euclid's 5th postulate, the parallel-lines postulate. People tried for centuries to prove that it could be deduced from the other axioms. Turned out, it wa
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by mturmon 6y ago
To continue: Promoting the birther conspiracy theory, pointedly stiffing Puerto Rico for disaster aid, racist comments about Latinos ("crime and rapists"), all the way back to the Central Park Five ad campaign, actually.
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by mturmon 6y ago
This is true, and I agree. But this kind of "language-within-language" problem (regex within sh) comes up a lot when formulating grep and sed command lines. Come to think of it, I think this is the most frequently-encountered cla
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by mturmon 6y ago
We used to think the composition of the Sun would never be known because there was no way to take a sample. Now, because of spectroscopy, we know the composition of the Sun and all the planets. We’re pretty clever when we put our minds to
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by mturmon 6y ago
> Dershowitz disagrees with Trump on policy matters on just about everything. What he doesn’t do is let his political disagreements pervert his legal opinions on constitutional matters. Like when Dershowitz defended Trump during the impe
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by mturmon 6y ago
Tucker Carlson? What a crock. He's now on TV claiming some agents of the Deep State are breaking in to his mail -- "the Deep State ate my exposé!"
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by mturmon 6y ago
I agree: this site, despite its many other good qualities, is a freaking disaster regarding these nonsense "censorship" claims, either regarding the NYPost story, or this one. All these BS stories are coming out right now, with da
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by mturmon 6y ago
One way to think about this is that cash is plentiful in China, but a strong social/legal system that ensures long-term, low-risk investments is "plentiful" in Canada or the US. In this sense, these foreign investors are tak
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by mturmon 6y ago
You seem to be claiming that, in general, the destruction of Black neighborhoods for the interstate did not have racist “malice aforethought”. That it was more of a case of white neighborhoods being able to defend themselves ... but not a
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by mturmon 6y ago
> You should familiarize yourself with power law processes... Since you brought it up: my PhD was in applied probability, and I work with heavy-tailed natural data every weekday. * As my comment noted, ML literally says 170K or maybe 175
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by mturmon 6y ago
See nearby: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24843584
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by mturmon 6y ago
I think it's the confident , bad predictions. From the linked article: > TSD: What do you predict to happen in the coming months regarding COVID-19 in the U.S.? > ML: I think it’s going to end up with less deaths than what I th
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by mturmon 6y ago
Screenshot was perfect, thanks.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Especially if you're based in the US, this is your best one-stop shop for an overall summary assessment of the science: https://science2017.globalchange.gov
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by mturmon 6y ago
> "Most people who believe in climate change have never..." A few reactions. (1) How do you even know this? This is not even a verifiable claim, it's just a derisive comment. (2) Additionally, it is an elementary logical
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by mturmon 6y ago
Makes a great case that smell is very different than our “favorite” sense, vision. I heard her interview on Sean Carroll’s podcast, was super interesting. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/07/
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by mturmon 6y ago
No, it’s actually quite good for the occasional purchase by ordinary folks. Pricey, but the selection is amazing.
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by mturmon 6y ago
That’s a good review of the 28S. I had the same issues with mine, To the extent that I’m not sure where it is now! I later got a 32Sii which is simpler, more focused, and better as a desk calculator. I had a 41cv for many years and loved it
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by mturmon 6y ago
I'd been wondering about the accuracy of the probabilities too. It's one thing if your dynamical model produces two state estimates and covariances, and another entirely when they actually match reality quantitatively! LeoLabs ha
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by mturmon 6y ago
Namely, please see the NEJM editorial: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?source=ne...
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by mturmon 6y ago
> then how can the US policy possibly be defended as anti-mortality? There hasn't really been a coherent US policy, though, has there? The administration has been unable to get behind a reality-based response.

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