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by mturmon 7y ago
*3, *10, /2 == *15 I think you forgot a /10 at the end? I'm surprised this is faster than adding half of the original number.
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by mturmon 7y ago
You're right, and that's where the parallel I offered kind of breaks down: the digital-domain hacks can scale much more readily than the older ones could, and even at the targeted level, digital information-gathering may be less r
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by mturmon 7y ago
This is kind of a fun question because it places the notion of “computational” computability (classical CS) alongside that of classical computability (finding a model by, say, minimizing an error which in turn boils down to calculus or line
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by mturmon 7y ago
Bev Hills has fought tooth and claw to ensure a subway would not go through their city, and it was generally reported that the fear was that poorer people would be more easily able to go there. They (shamefully) got their Democratic congre
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by mturmon 7y ago
It’s well known that the FBI had dossiers on political opponents that were used to silence them, or attempt to silence them (Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Luther King). What you’re proposing would merely be the same concept with a different leve
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by mturmon 7y ago
I like the approachable monograph — https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387973869 But there is also the magisterial — https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pattern-theory-97801... The
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by mturmon 7y ago
Seconded. It's really fascinating for anyone who is interested in the relationships between mechanistic generation and biological/natural artifacts. For me, this book fits in the same family as Benoit Mandelbrot's "The
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by mturmon 7y ago
The above commenter has exaggerated, but large aircraft carriers are indeed regarded as increasingly vulnerable to high-speed missiles. E.g., from [1]: "More controversially, the navy remains wedded to new aircraft carriers, but at $1
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by mturmon 7y ago
Yes: Gravimetric measurements from GRACE have been a breakthrough. The press release referenced within your wiki citation is well worth reading in this context: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4626 Besi
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by mturmon 7y ago
You can browse recent approaches at: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ To isolate to really near stuff, choose +/- 30 days, and Nominal distance <= 1LD (lunar distance). The asteroid in OP is linked to here: http
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by mturmon 7y ago
The former accuweather CEO was appointed to head the National Weather Service by Donald Trump. This man had in the past lobbied to forbid the NWS from releasing weather data directly to the public, and gotten Rick Santorum (his home state s
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by mturmon 7y ago
This is a great article, providing even more context for why this stepwise automation is smart.
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by mturmon 7y ago
You should see art more! James Turrell, Jeff Koons, and Anish Kapoor, all referenced in the article, all have lovely works, and are all very popular and influential, both with the gallery-going public, and with artists. The article feature
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by mturmon 7y ago
It was a mistake for NYT to package it this way, and a mistake for the curators to allow their choices to be promoted this way. (The artists, I'll cut a little slack, because curation like this is not their business.) It's the id
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by mturmon 7y ago
I have, and I enjoyed it, but I like the essays more and they have stayed with me more.
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by mturmon 7y ago
> The upcoming Sotheby’s auction includes a few other items that predate the movement, like Bowie’s red Olivetti from 1969, as well as the full breadth of Memphis output, from a 1981 “Nefertiti” tea set by Matteo Thun to a 1986 “Big Sur”
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by mturmon 7y ago
Yes, turns out New Horizons is (or has been) moving faster, but it is slowing down and will not catch them: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/when-will-new...
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by mturmon 7y ago
His essays from four decades of writing are collected in a massive book titled United States , which I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend - it is huge, but you can browse. He's delightfully readable, and he has known so many people -
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by mturmon 7y ago
The wording is misleading. You need to compute the angle of incidence of the incoming wavefront to a high accuracy in order to localize the source. The key quantity is not the absolute delay introduced by the absolute distance from antenna
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by mturmon 7y ago
JPL has a studio that has produced a few art+science pieces, including the exoplanet travel posters. Its website is: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/thestudio/ . They've made a few pieces that are around the JPL campus,
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by mturmon 7y ago
Relatedly, InSAR images of the Kilauea volcano area: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA13910 And land subsidence due to groundwater pumping in California’s Central Valley, showing motion of up to 7
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by mturmon 7y ago
The author (Chotiner) has indeed made a mis-statement about the state of knowledge on planetary CH4, but that doesn't pertain directly to most of the article's content, which is about DNA/RNA. As you point out, the state of M
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by mturmon 7y ago
Your "piped tar" doesn't cover the main use case of rsync, which is (unsurprisingly), remote file hierarchy sync'ing. In particular, when there's a hierarchy on a remote machine that I want to sync to a partially-up
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by mturmon 7y ago
True about the 3 sizes of Aerons. I'm 6'3, and find the vanilla Aeron (size "B") to work. If I was 6'4, I might feel differently, though, because I use it at its max adjustment.
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by mturmon 7y ago
Ditto. I got a second-hand Aeron on CL - UCLA area seller, who at the time had a sideline in reconditioning Aerons. It was about $450. I've used it for ~10 years at home. The Aeron is good and I'd recommend this method of purc
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by mturmon 7y ago
It should be scary. Soil liquefaction is one of the main failure modes of small structures in earthquakes. Take a look at the map for your area to know if it matters for you.
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by mturmon 7y ago
I was there around 2000, my wife was back there around 2012. I echo the comments nearby that going out for a walk at night, after the day tourists leave, allows you to imagine the city of the late middle ages that's familiar from nove
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by mturmon 7y ago
Just as an example, Gil Scott-Heron's critique: https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-whitey-on-the-moon-annota... , or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
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by mturmon 7y ago
This is well-stated. In fact, an even stronger statement is possible: If you start with $1MM, eventually you will fall below $1 and never go above $1 again no matter how long you keep playing . And all of that not just on a fraction of se
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by mturmon 7y ago
It is still an interesting example. Following your suggestion, which is a good one, the player's holdings at time N, starting with $1, are: H = [1.5 or 0.6] * [1.5 or 0.6] * ... } for N factors To make it into a more familiar

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