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by pacbard 3y ago
It looks like pasta shapes are patentable [1], but I wasn't able to find a patent for this specific pasta shape on Google Patents. On the podcast, they talk more about the process of creating the cutting die and how much that costs, et
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by pacbard 3y ago
My biggest concern is that this will allow people to type a question and get a number back from the database, without being able to tell if the query is right or if the LLM just made up something. It can work to support business analysts to
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by pacbard 3y ago
The idea is to coil the sewage pipe with the cold water pipe before it goes into the water heater. That way the cold water will pick up some of the excess heat from the sewage pipe from the shower and it will cost less to heat overall.
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by pacbard 3y ago
Maybe a better descriptor would be that peer review is a reputation-based system. The peers that will review your work likely know about the paper you submitted already, because they work on related work themselves and sat through your conf
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by pacbard 3y ago
Oof, the paper is tough to read. The default word formatting is not the best for tables. I am wondering how marriage/relationship plays a role into career choices. I believe that people from privileged accounts are more likely to be in
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by pacbard 3y ago
Yes, possibly. Publication bias is a known problem when using prior work (see [1] for some references on the problem and potential solutions). One of the strengths of Bayesian methods is that you can use a less informative prior to model yo
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by pacbard 3y ago
If drone’s open core is a problem, there is always woodpecker, which was forked from the original drone before they changed their license a few years ago.
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by pacbard 3y ago
As far as error bars are concerned, you could report some% credible intervals calculated from taking the some%tile out of your results. It’s somewhat Bayesian thinking but it will work better than confidence intervals. The intuition would b
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by pacbard 3y ago
From what I learned from KSP, a high latitude launch site is helpful for polar orbit. That's why Vandenberg is used for this purpose over Cape Canaveral (or other equatorial launch sites) in the US. It will be interesting to see how th
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by pacbard 3y ago
It’s similar to sqlite but can open multiple file formats.
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by pacbard 3y ago
Not an expert, but isn't most classical music like that? Most long pieces (e.g., concertos?) start with the main theme that gets unpacked in later parts of the performance.
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by pacbard 3y ago
I use it for some webhook stuff to put together an RSS feed for a website that doesn't provide one. I didn't want to have to code up a web app just for it. N8N comes with a webhook listener, and it was easy enough to cobble someth
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by pacbard 3y ago
Open access link: https://psyarxiv.com/ba7pe/download
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by pacbard 3y ago
When you work with state level education data, you do so under a research agreement. That means you outline your research agenda and the state agrees to provide data to you to answer your research questions. You can’t pitch a research proje
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by pacbard 3y ago
While inheritance laws in Southern Europe are weird, I don't think that partial ownership of buildings is the issue here. The real issue is that old buildings are not useful anymore: 1. Buildings that are not longer needed. For example
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by pacbard 4y ago
I was wondering about performance, but I cannot find any data on how these toroidal propellers are preforming compared to traditional airblades. The two-pager just says: > Achieves thrust comparable to that of a multirotor drone propelle
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by pacbard 4y ago
The number of users of an instance is not equal to the workload for the instance because of how federation works. The frontend serves 30,000 users. The backend processes their posts alongside the posts of everyone that replies to them and a
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by pacbard 4y ago
Interesting question. They partially address it in the paper: > Controlling for gender, ethnicity, and education did not meaningfully alter the relationships between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech, nor the mediating
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by pacbard 4y ago
According to wikipedia, electrolysis has an efficiency of about 70%, with a theoretical limit of 94%. Cracking water will always require more energy than it will produce, i.e. there is no free lunch. The point of electrolysis is that it cou
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by pacbard 4y ago
The problem with my experience in the Midwest (Michigan in particular) is that their power grid is so bad that I would lose electricity for an average of 1 week each year (the problem is so widespread that Michigan has laws in place to prot
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by pacbard 4y ago
My read of the abstract is that it is about growing food without sunlight or aid the growth of food with sunlight plus their thing. This is the focal sentence in the abstract: > Here a two-step CO2 electrolyser system was developed to pr
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by pacbard 4y ago
> Academic researchers often pay either zero... Not completely accurate. Every time you get a grant, your institution get a percentage of it to pay for indirect costs. These costs include office space, office personnel, and other expense
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by pacbard 4y ago
I don't think that is accurate. Most post-doc are funded through soft money (i.e., grant money or other non-earmarked department money) to a principal investigator. The PI wrote the grant and budgeted for post docs. Meaning that they s
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by pacbard 4y ago
So basically it's a gas canister filled with hydrogen instead of propane gas (which, by the way, is available almost everywhere at least in the US). It seems that they might have implemented a "quick" swap locking mechanism b
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by pacbard 4y ago
I agree that LaTeX has not the best syntax, but that is a better alternative? I mostly write in Word and I can tell you that it is not that much better than LaTeX. Sure, the editor is WYSIWYG so you can see right away the title, abstract, t
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by pacbard 4y ago
I'm curious to know which cheesemakers are using these chips. If you look at a wheel of Parmigiano (a whole one), you will see a number stamped on it. That's the cheesemaker's matriculation number in the consortium. There are
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by pacbard 5y ago
> there was also some Duck app for macOS? You are thinking of Adium ( https://adium.im ). I believe it was a port of pidgin/libpurple to cocoa/aqua (or whatever the macOS gui framework was back then).
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by pacbard 5y ago
The argument seems to rely on measurement data. That is, all the intelligence measures we have are correlated, therefore there is a single intelligence factor. What this argument misses is the fact that not observing something doesn’t mean
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by pacbard 5y ago
My impression of what makes the debate about gifted education and (to an extent) the new California math standards is the issue of the negative externalities in the decision to segregate high achieving students from the general population o
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by pacbard 5y ago
The analysis seems to be somewhat simple (just rank states by union strength and COVID measures), then conclude what is reported in the title. The conclusion seems to suffer from severe endogeneity problems as teacher unions are correlated

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