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by mturmon 3y ago
Yeah, I've been to 2 recent shows of hers at Zebulon in LA. Definitely still bringing the noise and intensity.
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by mturmon 3y ago
Link mentioned below is to an interesting write up of a classic old- vs new- art world dustup, transposed to a TikTok key. Very worthwhile.
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by mturmon 3y ago
I’m personally curious if our cultural obsession with JS devs is pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive. The logical way to test this would be to send a bunch of JS devs to a Bangladeshi village and see if they survive. In other words, you can’t rea
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by mturmon 3y ago
The mention of extra-terrestrial life is not as much of a red herring as you might imagine. The National Academies Decadal Survey for Astrophysics ("Astro2020") recommended that NASA study an ~6m aperture telescope that would be c
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by mturmon 3y ago
If you start with code golf, as you did, then this is where you end up. The only way to win is not to play?
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by mturmon 3y ago
Downvoted, but valid. I would claim that Ugg’s effort counts as a lower bound on the size of the Earth, and is therefore a legitimate constraint on true measurement. This bound might even be sufficient for some purposes. It also seems like
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by mturmon 3y ago
In Cold War times, information from remote sensing was recognized as important to understanding the USSR grain harvest and possible instability it might cause. I'm sure interest and target lists have only increased since then. See for
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by mturmon 3y ago
Not so often any more, in preference to iPython, bc -l, or pCalc on the phone. But when I do: an old HP-32Sii
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by mturmon 3y ago
I'd say that many of the pro-gas-stove talking points seem exaggerated (i.e., some pro-gas points are true in some senses, but induction stoves do exist and address essentially all of these concerns -- that's the "novel techn
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by mturmon 3y ago
How about the Zeeman effect, in which strong magnetic fields in locations where light is emitted, will cause the spectral lines associated with emitting material to split? The strength of the magnetic field is encoded in how broadly the lin
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by mturmon 3y ago
I have found these notebooks very useful in 2 ways besides presentations: as a final exploratory data analysis front end that loads data from a larger modeling and data reduction system, and as a playground to mature workflows into utilitie
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by mturmon 3y ago
OP is a story about UK publications, but I've also seen a rash of US-based stories that have a "generated from outrage-tuned talking points" quality. They accompany a parallel faux narrative about gas stoves. It's frustr
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by mturmon 3y ago
This guy gets it: https://sawbridge.com/product/historic-jefferson-lap-desk/
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by mturmon 3y ago
This is tersely stated, but it's wise. In general, following the gradient (if you have it) is a very, very good idea.
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by mturmon 3y ago
Ithaca, New York is another similar-sized town (population ~31K) that closed some blocks of its downtown "Main Street" (State Street) to make a very pleasant pedestrian business district. This happened in the 1970s. The pedestrian
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by mturmon 3y ago
pls also refrain from initial caps and message-terminating periods
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by mturmon 3y ago
Weekend NYT loves these long contrarian pieces. Think of it as fodder for tiresome brunchers to annoy their companions with. “I was reading this article about Uri Geller, and it turns out that few people know spoon bending was really part
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by mturmon 3y ago
Wait a few years, and enjoy the pleasure of introducing them to the top shelf potty talk: Veep by Armando Iannucci.
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by mturmon 3y ago
I can't do much better than this. I enjoyed the band a lot as a young adult, stopped listening for a few years, and they have come back hard to my playlist for the last 15 to 20 years. Just a lot of depth to their music, words, and cul
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by mturmon 3y ago
Nostalgic reflection has encouraged some very nice writing. Thanks for sharing.
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by mturmon 3y ago
Similar experience for me reading Gyn/ecology, the meta-ethics of radical feminism by Mary Daly. She is coming from a very different perspective from mine. It helped me a lot.
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by mturmon 3y ago
Similar thing here. Years later I purchased a used Encyclopedia Brittanica to see if it could bring some of that magic back. It didn't work, I didn't really engage with the articles in the same way. I think the World Book editors
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by mturmon 3y ago
> The medical evidence stands firmly against such interventions. This is false: https://www.wpath.org
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by mturmon 3y ago
There is no atmosphere for a space interferometer, which is one of the main technical considerations for optical comms from orbit.
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by mturmon 3y ago
Such a deep thinker. Love the whirlwind introduction to noise in physical systems: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/862.22/notes/noise.pdf
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by mturmon 3y ago
My understanding is that the technical blocker for space interferometry is precision metrology and formation flying, not bandwidth? I.e., you have to know the exact separation between the two telescopes as a function of time (something lik
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by mturmon 3y ago
Commoditizing their complement?
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by mturmon 3y ago
Indeed they were. I saw the two of them on a speaking tour at UCLA in the late 1990s, before Christopher became obsessed with Islam. They were kind of acting like bad schoolboys, drinking and smoking on stage IIRC. It would not be surprisin
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by mturmon 3y ago
Original paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2217900120 One source of this information is space based measurements of methane concentrations, which can be inverted to find emissions. The concentr
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by mturmon 3y ago
Sorry, these views are not "how Americans view the U.S." The GP comment is pushing a certain narrative that (in my view) has been ginned up by reactionary groups for their own ends. In addition, it's wrong on the facts (insof

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