mturmon

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by mturmon 6y ago
Wild, I had no idea Terrence Tao was an astronomy buff. The concept for the book sounds great.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Of all people, Brian Eno should feel OK not responding to e-mails -- and it seems like he does! He's given us so, so many excellent recordings already.
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by mturmon 6y ago
OP complains about being drawn to post comments to harvest karma. IIRC, 10 years ago, the comment karma was displayed next to the comment itself. This was removed because it was generating positive vote feedback loops (reinforcing both upv
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by mturmon 6y ago
Not only that, but in this case, given that we don't have a theory of Quantum Gravity yet, the notion of "what happens" at the singularity is inevitably mystical. The press release is glibly going from "science mode&quot
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by mturmon 6y ago
100% agree. Thus, the real question is not: "Why are there so many static site generators?" It is rather: "Why isn't there a static site generator generator?"
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by mturmon 6y ago
> My biggest successes have been extracting these parts into very small stand-alone shell scripts which the Python application then invokes ... That's a clever way to go. Sometimes the other way around works too: taking the most fid
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by mturmon 6y ago
This is a fun game to implement. You get a lot of varied gameplay for a small amount of code. You need an event loop, and a basic object-oriented model where all game objects have movement operations, shape vector lists, hit boxes, and obje
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by mturmon 6y ago
I had that happen. I knew I had successfully put in a 10' piece of plastic conduit before. I tried it again, wiggled a little too hard, and crack . The 1" conduit is not as flexy as 1/2" and that was enough to cause a
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by mturmon 6y ago
I have transported a bunch of lumber with two Civic sedans, mid-1990s and mid-2010s. Small cars with seats that fold down, kind of like the Prius in that respect. If possible, I get the store to cut the stock down beforehand. Works for 4x
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by mturmon 6y ago
It is a tautology, but we are studying teaching, so maybe that's not unexpected? ;-) My point is that the goal of the course should be to understand principles, not to teach people that their existing intuition is faulty. Who cares
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by mturmon 6y ago
> Convincing as many people as possible that statistical intuition is not something we are born with should be the key priority of any probability and statistics class. Again, strong disagree. Probability has been understood at a quanti
552.
by mturmon 6y ago
Wow, strong disagree. Once you develop intuition, probability is really quite intuitive. This kind of course should be working to develop this intuition — like the conditional probability examples and the CLT examples. The computational
553.
by mturmon 6y ago
This seems more like a trade organization not wanting rules impacting their product lines. I've had dual-flush Toto units for many years without problems. Small button = small flush, large button = large flush.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I didn't read the paywalled article, but if there were expected to be 40.5 four-match sequences, and 48 were observed, that doesn't seem to be a problem. A Poisson distribution (i.e., rare events limit) should approximately apply
555.
by mturmon 6y ago
I find this unpersuasive. The level of control/conformity on canonical Western media was such that, for most topics of daily news, thinking about the bias of the reporter was not a first-order concern. For some topics (let's say,
556.
by mturmon 6y ago
Thank you, point well taken. The feelings may be the same, but you're right, the underlying fires are more intense and pervasive.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Reed Hastings, “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention,” released Sept. 8.
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by mturmon 6y ago
West Coast fires, not a surprise. “It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself; Nathanael We
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by mturmon 6y ago
FTA: > Today in some versions of Linux `ls` puts single quotes around file names which contain white space likely in order to have those paths easier to copy and paste, but it does so only if !isatty(). I almost fainted. I believe this
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by mturmon 6y ago
I disagree. This is actually kind of a sweet gesture and convention. Like recognizing a friend’s Unix login at 3am when you type “who” from the command prompt. There are a few people who get known that way in some contexts: rms, jwz, esr.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Don't mean to be pushy, but: Are there really toasters, of any vintage, that can have an energized case due to a reverse-wired receptacle? I'm doubtful, but I don't know .
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by mturmon 6y ago
The reasoning appears to be that if the BHs are clumped, then the number of microlensing events will be lowered, as opposed to if the BHs are evenly dispersed. In other words, the number of concentrated masses intercepting rays of light fro
563.
by mturmon 6y ago
I’ve heard the same claim, and the reason given was that microlensing surveys would have found more of these black holes. The article gets into this near the end: > For example, perhaps the strongest constraints on primordial black hole
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by mturmon 6y ago
I'm not sure what's done for Cap-and-Trade, when actual money might be at stake. Here's a link, which you may have seen, about how individual facility monitoring can work, when you need quantitative flux estimates: https:&
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by mturmon 6y ago
The viewpoint I have heard is that most enterprises want to fix the leaks if they are informed about where they are to a high degree of specificity (e.g., ~20 meters). Then they can send a crew with detection equipment. They're tryin
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by mturmon 6y ago
Oh, I didn't like the LAT formulation either. I thought you were referring mostly to the JPL press release. (The JPL work was really about CH4's contribution to greenhouse warming, not at all to personal health -- I'm ver
567.
by mturmon 6y ago
The headline was not intended to be merely attention-grabbing. It was trying to illustrate that although leaks are a fractal phenomenon, you can make significant progress by starting at the top few. For more on this, see the abstract of th
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by mturmon 6y ago
It is tied to regulatory monitoring, in CA: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/greenhouse-gas-inve... The ability to check the self-reported emissions with remote sensing is new, and has led to a recalibra
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by mturmon 6y ago
> ...you'll still get a shock regardless of the state of the switch... oops, yes, good point.
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by mturmon 6y ago
> But that nice shiny metal lamp you've got? It's got the neutral bonded to the body... Another commenter pointed this out, but I have to chime in as well: no. Not true. The neutral is NOT bonded to the exterior body of a met

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