mturmon

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by mturmon 7y ago
But then we would not have Hunter S. Thompson’s scathing take on Richard Nixon, published in Rolling Stone just after Nixon’s death: “If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into
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by mturmon 7y ago
See the comments at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183793 , they address your question about satellite monitoring of CH4. The OCO-2 spectral bands were chosen for H2O and for CO2. I don’t think they provide methane
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by mturmon 7y ago
Uh, no, this is nuts. I work there and personally know the PI of the below-linked instrument which is designed to “search for organics and minerals that have been altered by watery environments and may be signs of past microbial life.” So
814.
by mturmon 7y ago
There seems to be a subtext to this paper. A subsequent correction/addendum to the same journal reads: > The authors regret that as Victor Timmers did not carry out the research under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh, no
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by mturmon 7y ago
Perfect examples! Like i18n and all the rest. Y2r sentence illustrates the ... limitations of that method.
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by mturmon 7y ago
It's just closing the loop on negative externalities, right?
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by mturmon 7y ago
Here's an example of some of the early research on methane detection from space (using SCIAMACHY, which has enough sensitivity to detect but not to localize well): https://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9734
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by mturmon 7y ago
The Lempel-Ziv source encoding (LZ for short) is able to asymptotically approach maximum efficiency because it adapts to the source. It does this by keeping a dictionary of past phrases, and referring back to that dictionary as it encodes
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by mturmon 7y ago
Could take a look at this recent tool, used operationally for Mars GIS. A development version has some support for Europa: https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/MMGIS
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by mturmon 7y ago
This was previously covered by a well-known post by the OP: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat The necessary link between aerial imagery and on-ground navigation by mobile phone is a 3d map. I'd like to kno
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by mturmon 7y ago
Not a bad group of people figuring in this story: Glenn Reeves is now Chief Engineer of the division of JPL that designs spacecraft systems. Mike Jones now appears to work on the notion of Identity on the internet ( https://www.mi
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by mturmon 7y ago
Yes. You can reliably see ISS in urban locations -- it's actually quite cool to do a few times. It will be a point of light, moving very fast against the background, just as shown in some of the animations in OP. If the geometry is s
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by mturmon 7y ago
If you want a real conversation, you don't start off with your original comment. The original comment was mocking the scale of the changes we face in a completely un-informed way. So, you might want to consider what kind of discussion
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by mturmon 7y ago
It's a useful debate to be having -- although it is somewhat endless and undecidable in absolute terms, in the way that fundamental philosophical debates are. I think about robotics as an example of a problem domain that seems resistan
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by mturmon 7y ago
Honest question: How do people lock these things if visiting a shop for a half-hour? (Edited to add: Sorry for confusion! I'm talking about an owned model like the one in OP, the Xiaomi Mi M365 - I looked at some product imagery and it
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by mturmon 7y ago
Meanwhile, in the world where generative music is made with the obvious involvement of actual musicians: http://www.generativemusic.com
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by mturmon 7y ago
A (male) friend used to wear a utilikilt to work from time to time.
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by mturmon 7y ago
The re-org in which dead wood is shunted off to an out-of-the way planning or strategy assignment. Extra points for dotted-line reporting to another strategy person. Further extra points if the planning assignment is not funded adequately
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by mturmon 7y ago
Smart observation. Relatedly, I've wandered around dodgy neighborhoods late at night while visiting foreign capitals much more than I'd do in the city where I live.
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by mturmon 7y ago
I'm not at a FAANG, but in CA and deal with this issue. This seems due to California labor law. If you're doing work in which you're supervised regularly (like every day -- there are other technicalities too), then you&#x27
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by mturmon 7y ago
Many uses. Why do people check the weather before deciding whether to pack an umbrella?
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by mturmon 7y ago
Taking the money will create a desire to defend the donor. In some idealized world, this doesn't have to happen, but in the real world, it will. For instance, eventually the donor will come to town and want a tour of the lab he donate
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by mturmon 7y ago
I don't see criticism [of bearded hipsters, I suppose you mean] in that last paragraph. But it was disappointing because it hints at something but says nothing.
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by mturmon 7y ago
> ...Uber’s GPS navigation is unspeakably bad in most metros, offering idiotic routes... On this tangent: I took a few Lyfts around LA recently, with the driver following Lyft navigation. For the longer airport rides, that navigation wa
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by mturmon 7y ago
Downvotes usually equilibrate "correctly" over time. Best response to downvotes is to re-read and see if anything said was wrong or inflammatory, and if not, just wait it out. In general, I'd say that using proper capitaliza
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by mturmon 7y ago
I'd suggest that it's not so much the particular words, it's that all the "oddball" words in the sentence are directly Latin-derived -- garrulous, taciturnity, voluble, reticence. This is what gives the sentence a
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by mturmon 7y ago
You said Climate Science is a "totally model-driven field" and I provided facts correcting that sweeping claim. It's not uncommon to hear this kind of claim on HN - sometimes people seem to not really have on-the-ground infor
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by mturmon 7y ago
Your wording is somewhat oblique ("this hysteria"), and you are making distinctions that are not clear ("no one knew" vs. "people were aware of the possibility"; "terraforming" as a feel-good substitu
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by mturmon 7y ago
Dark matter seems to comprise about a quarter of the mass-energy of the Universe, and we don't know what it is. It seems worth investigating.
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Greek Artist Takis, Who Used Magnets to Create Pioneering Kinetic Art, Has Died(news.artnet.com)
54 points by mturmon 7y ago|4 comments

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