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by mturmon 6y ago
I like your bibliography! Ben Noble's book was my entry to LA. I was an undergraduate and involved in a research activity that demanded a lot of knowledge of the eigenvalue problem. The concrete approach in that book helped a lot. It
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by mturmon 6y ago
The WFIRST web page gives a good description: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/wide-field-infrared-survey... There are 2 instruments. The coronagraph instrument (“WFIRST-CGI”) is a high contrast imaging test bed. If
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by mturmon 6y ago
Yes, but the aperture of the interferometer is no longer limited in the same way, so we could say that interferometry gets around the “naive” diffraction limit.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Optical interferometry has been used to synthesize very large apertures in ground based experiments (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar_Testbed_Interferometer ). That was in the mid 1990s. Operational ground i
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by mturmon 6y ago
> ...boomers will be unloading homes too over the next few years... This might be true in some markets. In the LA market, my friends who were using the "wait a few years" strategy have been very, very disappointed.
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by mturmon 6y ago
This is one of the most magical things about Prolog. From my functional/imperative programming experience, when originally picking up Prolog, I conceptualized the kind of operations you describe (e.g., “all splits”) as “running the fun
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by mturmon 6y ago
For what it’s worth, I’ve been in LA 25 years, and the perennial traffic jam around downtown (say, the 110 west of DTLA, and the 10 west of DTLA) was getting bad long before the light rail system was built out. It’s the cars.
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by mturmon 6y ago
On the other hand, for many systems the energy is related (in some way) to the square of the value. For example, voltages, currents, photon counts, etc. So if energy is finite, then you get CLT behavior.
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by mturmon 6y ago
I've enjoyed their music for so many years. I got to see them live at Disney Hall in LA about 10 years ago - I don't think Florian was playing on this tour - and the A/V show was amazing. The Fukushima disaster had just happ
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by mturmon 6y ago
Like cycling passwords every 90 days.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Smart comment. I work at a large lab that does cutting-edge hardware development. The slow buildup of fabrication and fundamental-physics know-how is hard for someone who has mostly worked on software to appreciate. To realize these brea
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by mturmon 6y ago
What an interesting and apparently frank interview. Martinis was the UCSB professor whose lab setup was basically purchased by Google. Apparently he and Hartmut Neven, another somewhat legendary figure, had “creative differences” and Mart
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by mturmon 6y ago
When the project management at the top level is committed to unrealistic deadlines, it makes realistic engineering hard at all lower levels. Given that nature cannot be fooled, this combination of factors tends toward failure.
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by mturmon 6y ago
Sometimes you don't have to exactly identify the line to know that some things are on the wrong side of the line.
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by mturmon 7y ago
This cocktail is called Excedrin in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine ).
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by mturmon 7y ago
Yes, the moment you mention was among the most affecting of the first season. The scene is constructed diabolically to ratchet up the mob mentality — where people are just acting in the moment, purely emotionally. I read the season as an
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by mturmon 7y ago
In a Unix system, files have 3 levels of permissions — for the user who owns the file, the group-of-users that owns the file, and any system user. So, a given config file can have permissions so that the file owner can read and write, but o
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by mturmon 7y ago
(Dons owly mask) Wikipedia has you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nomadic_peoples
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by mturmon 7y ago
I wonder what their definition of "city" is ... it seems to differ from just "inhabited". They make a distinction somewhere between villages and cities.
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by mturmon 7y ago
My kid is in one of these LAUSD magnets. It’s a public school. The gifted magnets are open to anyone who tests into a certain percentile. The test is given to everyone so it’s quite transparent. To get into the highly gifted magnet, you
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by mturmon 7y ago
Yes. This argument style passed its sell-by date long ago and I have lost patience with those who practice it.
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by mturmon 7y ago
This comment is a great example of bad faith pro-Trump arguments. It is a despicable bunch of disinformation. It’s cherry picking a few old comments while ignoring the overwhelming tide of know-nothing minimization of the pandemic that ch
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by mturmon 7y ago
A lot of reasons and context have been given. I’ll add one. The common infrastructure indicates that someone centralized is directing this and paying for it. One naturally wonders, Who? Part of the power of grassroots protest is that it
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by mturmon 7y ago
Your experience (listening to non-commercial stations on the left side of the dial while road-tripping) was memorably summarized by the Replacements in "Left of the Dial" -- https://genius.com/The-replacements-left
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by mturmon 7y ago
True. All this has made me want to read a book-length treatment of the 1918-1919 pandemic. The lived experience of a fast moving global pandemic had completely receded from our own understanding until this came along.
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by mturmon 7y ago
See also this article from the LA Times, comparing the LA vs. SF reactions to the 1918-1919 pandemic: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-19/coronavi...
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by mturmon 7y ago
These are some really smart suggestions. The biggest helps for me — listed in 1 and 2 above — were to keep a pad of paper and a pen nearby, and to decide willfully that I would wake up enough to start writing it down. Once I started to wr
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by mturmon 7y ago
That’s part of the story. From Pinatubo, there is believed to also be a warming effect due to the stratospheric SO2 absorbing heat from below (related to the claims of the article), and in a secondary effect, potentially changing atmospher
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by mturmon 7y ago
Better to account for gravity first, no?
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by mturmon 7y ago
It’s quite accurate, somewhat hard to believe until you try it a few times. Good enough for many layout tasks if you’re drawing a reference line to cut to, for example. Also works for cutting straight lines with an exacto knife.

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