mturmon

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by mturmon 7y ago
> ... the US would remove the Taliban very quickly... No, no, no. The Taliban were broadly distributed throughout Southern Afghanistan, and they had a cross border sanctuary in Pakistan. For its own reasons (Kashmir and the regional riv
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by mturmon 7y ago
On this point, history has chosen to be stranger than the after-the-fact musings of rational humanists would typically allow: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and blac
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by mturmon 7y ago
I'm really heartened that you admit to not being an expert. Often when I have raised this issue on HN in the past, my discussion partner claims that their physics or math background makes them qualified to draw policy conclusions from
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by mturmon 7y ago
This is precisely true. The ozone hole is what sparked us to build the global earth observing system that we now have. It was originally not known how to observe and monitor atmospheric chemistry at a global scale.
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by mturmon 7y ago
This comment is typical of HN climate-change skeptics: - "Warming is real", *but* - "skeptical of all the [unnamed] doomsday predictions", *and* - dropping a few random facts about specific puffed-up "discr
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by mturmon 7y ago
Without piling on: sometimes this is how you get to know someone. It used to be interesting to scan the obit section of newspapers, just to see the parade of characters and achievements that I had missed or not known enough of.
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by mturmon 7y ago
This effect seems to be treated and dismissed as insignificant w/r/t the cosmological parameters, in section 3.11 (page 78) of the paper you reference. There were a lot of new systematic effects in the Planck data, and a lot of th
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by mturmon 7y ago
Wow! At work, so can't read to completion, but what a deep and sympathetic look at some of the aspects of Kara Walker's very challenging body of work.
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by mturmon 7y ago
One of their old mottoes was "Oklahoma is OK"...which has that same non-aspirational quality you're highlighting in your last sentence. Here's some OK branding history: http://www.15q.net/ok.html
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by mturmon 7y ago
As an occasional Oklahoma visitor, I always kind of liked the arrow sculpture ("Iron Feathers") outside the Will Rogers (OKC) airport: http://www.e-a-a.com/portfolios/iron-feathers-at-will-rogers... But if yo
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by mturmon 7y ago
My further dystopian riff is that the reason for the scan-bar reuse is: They have a robot cycling around the warehouse, automatically indexing the items for sale by scanning all codes in sight, uploading to a database...that is used by othe
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by mturmon 7y ago
NASA is a big place, so you can’t make statements at that level of generality. Here’s Arun Viswanathan’s google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jdotmygAAAAJ&hl=en
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by mturmon 7y ago
This is the kind of event (although technically unrelated to the OP) that caused resources to be allocated as you suggest: https://www.space.com/13423-hackers-government-satellites.ht... Some of the specific accomplishment
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by mturmon 7y ago
If you had to reach into your bag of probability concepts to pick the most closely related one, it would be "Large Deviations", which comes up for engineers in the context of information theory. Basically, as explained in the arti
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by mturmon 7y ago
Your observation about the seamless evolution of a basic shell script from a few lines typed interactively is very insightful. This kind of automation adds a lot of value for low marginal effort and probably explains a lot of the short scri
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by mturmon 7y ago
You have mentioned a neat point that illustrates some of the complexity of an "image" like the ones shown. After 20 or so minutes poking around, I'm not 100% sure what instrument took the images in the OP. There are five foc
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by mturmon 7y ago
It's also good to suspend judgement until the case works its way through the courts. The Wen Ho Lee case is a point of reference here - he was accused of the worst kind of espionage and "convicted" after leaks in the NYT -
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by mturmon 7y ago
OK, I realize in using the shorthand "take money from two sources", I have clouded the issue. Sorry about that. As always, the actual issue is the failure to disclose the possible CoI -- as in the present case. It sucks, BTW.
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by mturmon 7y ago
On balance, your comment did gloss over the "taking money from two sources" issue, which is the point of the arrest. If you wanted to have a conversation about maintaining scientific collaboration in the midst of great power compe
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by mturmon 7y ago
Note: > criminally charged with making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements"... > In interviews with Defense Department investigators in 2018 and 2019, Lieber said that while he had heard of the Thousand Talents Plan
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by mturmon 7y ago
I've used astropy.units in an intricate but medium-size (~10K LOC) Python simulator and it was really quite nice. You can do things like: import astropy.units as u import astropy.constants as const m1 = 1.0 * const.M_sun
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by mturmon 7y ago
Your lol is misinformed. ACM and IEEE produce and print actual dead-tree journals. This means selecting a fixed number of articles which are consistently formatted by an editorial process. Additionally, [edited to qualify: some but not a
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by mturmon 7y ago
The above heuristic arguments seem inherently weaker than the direct experience of someone who used to be on the team that improves the results. They are well-funded and should be able to back out the effects you mention.
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by mturmon 7y ago
He also taught French at MIT, and wrote a series of essays for NYRoB ( https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/charles-rosen/ ). I met him through the essays.
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by mturmon 7y ago
One of my favorite recordings, period, is the Charles Rosen treatments of Beethoven's late piano sonatas -- two of these pieces are mentioned in the article. I'm not a musician, so I don't grasp it at the level of the author,
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by mturmon 7y ago
I still live there. My 14 year old daughter was one of the ones arguing against these NIMBY homeowners at those meetings, because that bus line would connect directly to her high school. My view is that it will take time on the order of 1
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by mturmon 7y ago
I'm affiliated with a university, and every year for the past 5+ years I have to fill out a conflict of interest (COI) form in which I testify that I haven't accepted gifts or compensation from outside entities without filing a di
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by mturmon 7y ago
You both seem to be right. According to [1], residential customers can use Spectrum-approved modem models, but business customers must use Spectrum-provided modems. (I use my own modem with Spectrum too.) [1] https://www.spectr
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by mturmon 7y ago
Note that the comments thread below the article addresses some of the natural objections to the novel results exhibited in the post.
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by mturmon 7y ago
Seconded. It’s a great physics based explanation of everyday light properties.

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