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The Case Against 'Super-Earths'(forbes.com)
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by nategri 9y ago
Somewhere, I assume, some atmospheric physics grad students are very happy.
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by nategri 9y ago
Sounds like 'preferential attachment' applies to luck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
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by nategri 9y ago
Image backgrounds on plots: Just say no, kids.
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by nategri 9y ago
Add support for Russian and I'm in. This looks like exactly the language app I've been dreaming of--real language-native content with quick lookups for stuff you don't know.
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> "... this approach resolves all the well-known quantum paradoxes of quantum foundations. In particular, quantum mechanics is local and consistent with special relativity." This is a very strange thing to say if you are famili
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by nategri 9y ago
I think we're at the tail end of a unique cultural moment where "phone addiction" is even a conceivable idea. They are already arguably the human tool, and in a decade or two the devices will be so firmly a fixture of inter
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by nategri 9y ago
Hey this is the field I did my PhD in! Some fun facts: * The flux of particles in this energy regime is so low that you get about 1 per square kilometer per century, so studying them necessitates doing really wild stuff like instrumenting a
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by nategri 9y ago
This is insanely cool. I had no idea this was possible. If I'm reading right the spacecraft would have to be placed at about 600-850 AU from the sun to take advantage of the solar gravity lens. For reference, Pluto's orbit is loca
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by nategri 9y ago
I am extremely disappointed this project isn't open source---what a boon it would have been to the community.
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by nategri 9y ago
THRILL as sentient spaceships interact on message boards
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by nategri 9y ago
< Alarming because Amazon have yet to produce anything truely great. Apply the correct latin phrase, but I've found The Man in the High Castle to be one of the best shows on TV right now.
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by nategri 9y ago
Hopefully this means we'll also get Use of Weapons and The Player of Games ? Pretty please?
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by nategri 9y ago
Why not just gzip the JSON? Should make complicated JSON around an order of magnitude smaller, and be more portable to boot.
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by nategri 9y ago
Exactly why I switched to vim from emacs. I also never let my bashrc or vimrc files grow too baroque.
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by nategri 9y ago
First read "Capturing Stallman from 1M miles away" and had a good laugh
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"Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (I Will Not See the Electron Band Structure in Germanium)"
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by nategri 9y ago
Nice to see a rebuttal to the other article. "The [complicated topic] is just like [fashionable technology]" trope is beyond tired.
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by nategri 9y ago
this is called linguistic prescriptivism and its wrong
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by nategri 9y ago
Please find in this Deadspin artical a rebuttal to the "tragedy" of Hitchbot: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pil... While I don't agree with all of the points made here, I do agree
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by nategri 9y ago
The population affected by that recall is hilariously narrow in scope: "5th-percentile women who are in the driver’s seat and not wearing a seatbelt (emphasis mine) [...] generally defined as weighing between 100 and 110 pounds and s
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by nategri 9y ago
I adore seeing the stars, but I do not enjoy the night. Multi-week observatory shifts in grad school burned away a lot of my earlier warm feelings for all things nocturnal.
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by nategri 9y ago
I know I was living in a bit of a special enclave of Columbus (Clintonville), but I I'm finding a car to be much more mandatory in the South Bay. In Columbus I would only drive about once a week when I needed to go out to the suburbs
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by nategri 9y ago
I'm a CBus expat currently living in the valley. A few of my friends back home have what I would consider to be extremely fancy downtown apartments, and of course what they pay in rent is the same as what I pay to live with 7 people
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by nategri 9y ago
Also: Cross products.
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by nategri 9y ago
Totally thought this was going to be about an algorithm that tags videos of whales with text, and and how they noticed a pattern by looking at the tags. Title would be better served by mentioning "handedness" in whales, but there
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by nategri 9y ago
The number times I see the word "design" in a statement correlates well with how high it registers on the bullshit-ometer.
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Bitcoin is always fine. And the solution to bitcoin is always bitcoin. And in bitcoin, we'll bitcoin that bitcoin will be just bitcoin. Bitcoin and see.
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by nategri 9y ago
Also bizarre how often they mention BMW in this article without ever once bringing up the i3.
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by nategri 9y ago
I'm not sure how close to unobtainium they currently are, but I second the SuperDrive as a viable alternative to something like a Kryoflux. Given you have a 68k or other compatible Mac lying around as well, of course. Ciderpress (windo

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