mturmon

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by mturmon 6y ago
I hear you, and appreciate your caveat ("highly anecdotally"). But consider a couple of data points: -- KH-11 satellite, and presumed successors -- Stuxnet -- Utah data center ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U
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by mturmon 6y ago
This trichotomy is not really helpful. Here's a more helpful one: people who actually have expertise and peer-reviewed publications, people who at least pay attention to the above, and everyone else.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I would agree w/ your statement here. The entropy is the on-average (or, expected) amount of information gained from seeing one "x".
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by mturmon 6y ago
I would like to push back against this in favor of the original comment. The context of this remark within the article is: > I was extremely confused as to why the Normal (Gaussian) Distribution pops up everywhere—in kurtotically-ignora
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by mturmon 6y ago
The weighting with probability turns it in to an expected value. Remember that if x is a random variable, then its expected value is E[x] = Sum_{All x} x p(x) The interpretation is that E[x] is the average value of x. In particular,
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by mturmon 6y ago
Yep. The problem I really want to solve is, go to the shell init file where $LESS or $MANPATH or whatever is defined.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Perhaps 30 seconds? It was uncomfortable but not a big strain. I see someone nearby saying 2-3 minutes. For me, it was not that long!
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by mturmon 6y ago
I purchased a relatively cheap one from Amazon a couple of months ago. Less than $50, I believe. I tried some simple stuff when it arrived. I believe I was able to get it to swing within the 94-99% range by holding my breath and by delibe
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by mturmon 6y ago
I see your point...but I think the NYPD does not send their Barney Fife to this particular crime.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I think your first impulse was the right one ... ;-) In general, HN threads fail on pure politics topics. (Sorry, friends, for the scold, but it's true.) We don't have enough people who have expertise on politics and media. Ad
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by mturmon 6y ago
How about one of these e-letters [0] backed up by a Science digital subscription to actually read the content? Referring to a recent TOC [1], the "Research Articles" would likely be more in-depth than you want, but there are als
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by mturmon 6y ago
Sure...the bar for Nature is really high...friends at my work have been through the editorial/revision process there and it's generally very demanding.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Note, is not in the the flagship journal, it's an affiliated journal under the Nature imprint. There are about 40 other such: https://www.nature.com/siteindex (see under "N"). It's a Springer joint. No
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by mturmon 6y ago
Like I said, I have already studied this question to my satisfaction. Also, in general, I have lost patience with much good-faith argument regarding neoconservative initiatives. In retrospect, I think most of the money and power behind the
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by mturmon 6y ago
You claimed that "the data shows they work" and I was pushing back against that because it is false. Charters failed in LAUSD, the second-largest school system in the US. It was honestly tried here, with the backing of several su
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by mturmon 6y ago
This is just not an adequate summary of the decidedly mixed record of charter schools. My kid, now 14, goes to a Los Angeles USD public school that offers specialized magnet programs for gifted and, separately, highly gifted, kids. The hig
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by mturmon 6y ago
Perfect link. He’s the ideal commentator.
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by mturmon 6y ago
This is a good point. One big problem with solutions that match the text of the makefile is that they don't catch dynamically-generated targets. I have makefiles used for data-crunching that are parametrically-generated using $foreach
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by mturmon 6y ago
The grandparent comment (not the story) said some words about US companies not considering themselves "subservient to the government", and the child comment (the one you replied to) said "but these companies have to obey the
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by mturmon 6y ago
NASA has a mandate to address the NEO problem. See https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ The main tool is change detection in robotic optical telescope surveys, which have scientific uses as well.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Thank you. I had been slightly familiar with fast follow up for SNs (that were detected optically), but their follow up times are much more forgiving than FRBs. The localization issue is also interesting.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Could you say something about how you are now, or might later, coordinate fast follow up observations in other wavelengths or with other instruments?
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by mturmon 6y ago
You have an interesting point. You can see methane leaks in some IR photography, but it’s not as compelling as an oil plume in the water, or oil coated shores. Video from the huge leak outside LA — https://www.scpr.org/new
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by mturmon 6y ago
The GP comment did over-reach...I agree that many scientists do indeed do engineering. I work at a lab that builds expensive, highly-specialized scientific instruments, and the scientists who lead that kind of work are right at the edge of
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by mturmon 6y ago
I have no idea why people would upvote a junk article like this. It has two cheap rhetorical ploys. First, a crude and disgusting analogy with rape, of all things. (There's a much better analogy to the governmental action that stopped
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by mturmon 6y ago
Here is an extensive 2018 study on climate impacts in the Midwest: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/21/ There are expected to be agricultural impacts: > The Midwest is a major producer of a wide rang
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by mturmon 6y ago
I have more "Made in Vietnam" tags on my Patagonia clothes than "Made in China". Patagonia has been leading the way on ethical manufacturing for a long time. Easily since the late 1990s. They don't appear to be ba
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by mturmon 6y ago
The mission study page for Europa Lander: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-lander/ Europa Clipper, an orbiter, is an approved mission expected to launch in mid 2020s. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov&#
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by mturmon 6y ago
On a cursory look it seems to construct a distance matrix between all pairs of items, and look for a spanning tree with that distance metric that is "elongated" - i.e., less branching. Straightforward enough. There seems to be a
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by mturmon 6y ago
This price for an Aeron is very good -- but in my metro (LA), this kind of price is not attainable, so don't wait for it. I paid around $450 about 10 years ago.

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