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by mturmon 6y ago
We should be glad that such fine tools exist, no?
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by mturmon 6y ago
You might like to look at Paul Sellers' videos? He can get a lot done with hand saws, marking tools, and chisels. But in general, among hobbies, woodworking is pretty gear-intensive. Even if you try to avoid it.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Could this be a sampling effect? If you have traction in SFBA then many of the moving searches you see will necessarily be out of SFBA. And conversely: if you don't have broad coverage, you won't see searches from the hinterland
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by mturmon 6y ago
Jon was a jewel. He ran a quantum computing group of about a dozen people at the Jet Propulsion Lab that was next to my own group in the organization. Eventually the NASA funding in that area got too tight and the group disbanded. Jon&#x2
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by mturmon 6y ago
You’ve left some good tips. sed, awk, and grep. getopts. Read the man pages. Try to automate even simple series of commands. Don’t be shy about running a whole pipeline of commands (in an automation script) just to isolate one field wit
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by mturmon 6y ago
Submitting this as a tweet in isolation is teeing up for a flamey exchange in the comments here.
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by mturmon 6y ago
It's a great read. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280139
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by mturmon 6y ago
I also didn't care for the coarse characterizations nearby. I take your point about the distinction between models that reproduce behavior ("simply predictive") vs. models of underlying components, and what you can learn from
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by mturmon 6y ago
I’m doubtful of this claim. I’m not an expert but I hear about vortex optical components at lunchtime conversation, and from what I understand these effects have only become exploited in the past 20 years or so. I'm open to correctio
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by mturmon 6y ago
Yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_angular_momentum_multi...
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by mturmon 6y ago
More on the metallic hydrogen investigations: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/metallic-hydrogen... It appears that one can use lasers, diamond vises, and/or numerical simulation to get pr
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by mturmon 6y ago
Thanks for this generous comment. The author of TFA has articulated a genuine problem that is central to many large-scale investigations these days, across many domains. We rely a lot on complex computer simulations, or complex physics-ba
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by mturmon 6y ago
Big agree. Gnu parallel, xargs, and make -j are all very useful basic tools for embarrassingly parallel workloads. I've been developing a simulation software that does Monte Carlo over realizations of a simulated universe, and xargs a
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by mturmon 6y ago
A very nice article -- more pessimistic than I'd be -- about the limits of outsider understanding when predictions come from complex models that few understand.
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by mturmon 6y ago
You have just scolded the above commenter for jumping to a racial interpretation, and then jumped to an opposite conclusion yourself, on the basis of no evidence.
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by mturmon 6y ago
> Police == violence, we might want to pretend that's not true, but it is. I disagree, and point to a distinction that I learned from an essay of Christopher Hitchens. He described this as (paraphrasing) the distinction from the wo
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by mturmon 6y ago
Thanks. This is a better explanation of what has happened with GW observations than the OP, which seems to be garbage.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Yep, that remark was an unforced error that has not aged well.
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Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to pivot to video?(niemanlab.org)
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by mturmon 6y ago
> ... We'll just take it on trust that you do so honestly because there's no way you would've seen this coming. ... I see where you're going here, and I want to agree, but you aren't reckoning with the incentives
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by mturmon 6y ago
Thanks for the link. They identified the galaxy they're studying because it happens to be backlit by an even more-distant quasar. Galaxies identified this way are not "special" in the sense that highly-luminous galaxies are.
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by mturmon 6y ago
To mention a few more, the NASA budget includes human operations (ISS), and the entire science enterprise (Earth, Planetary, Astrophysics) - things including Hubble, JWST, Curiosity.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I mean like framing a house, shed, or garage with 2x4s. Not furniture! If you have ever built a picture frame that you intend to hang on a wall and have people look at, you will know how hard it is to get good miters off a "just ok&qu
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by mturmon 6y ago
I have a 10" Delta that's about $160. It's not a slider. It advertises as compound, but setup is not repeatable, so I only use it for 90 degree cuts. (Perfect example of a "feature" that turns out to be useless i
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by mturmon 6y ago
The Festool dust extractors are similar to what you describe. I got one for list price, a bit over $700. It's quiet, has an accessory outlet that can turn the vac on, has an option for a remote, has big wheels so it doesn't get
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by mturmon 6y ago
Drill presses and (wood) jointers are also largely unchanged over decades. You can still get good use out of a Buffalo drill press from the 1940s. A lot of those machines were made and went into small machine shops, and are just out there
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by mturmon 6y ago
I don't think a miter saw is a good place to economize unless you're doing only un-demanding work (e.g. rough framing). You really want it to keep a square adjustment and to have zero play. And it's a tool you might use a
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by mturmon 6y ago
> In most fields, our society relies on private industry to generate quality work ... This is just not true. Military, police, courts? What does "most fields" even mean?
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by mturmon 6y ago
The camera in LA is outside a bus rapid transit in the San Fernando Valley. It's being joysticked all over by the excited public. A car! Look! A car!
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by mturmon 6y ago
Self-reply: Here's a comparative review of Noble+Daniel vs. Strang: https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271586/1-s2.0-S002437950...

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