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by peter303 6y ago
Used to be tours going to Baikonur launches. Atleast $5000.
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by peter303 6y ago
Caesar switch Europe to a solar calendar after seeing its advantage in Egypt. Egypt likely synced its calendar to when the star Sirius first appears in the dawn sky in July. This would not be accurate over long periods of time due precessio
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by peter303 6y ago
Plus the Earth is erratic in its movements compared to atomic clocks. When they switched the definition from a fraction of an astronomical day to wavelengths of a particular Cesium photon, they would have to add a leap second a few times a
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by peter303 6y ago
The Solstice is when the days start getting longer again. I feel very time crunched at that time of year. The ancients probably did not use precise clocks to detect Solstice. Its farthest south sunset on the horizon and easy to observe when
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by peter303 6y ago
China declared the "end of poverty" in China this year. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56194622 This was 40 year program initiated by the pragmatist Deng Xiaoping, when 800,000 lived in poverty. Po
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by peter303 6y ago
For a while parents shipped their children USPS Parcel Post because it was cheaper than train fare. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil...
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by peter303 6y ago
The muon was the first non-standard matter particle and 2nd transient particle discovered in 1937. It lead to new physics then and continues to suggest there is new physics.
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by peter303 6y ago
Hopefully they will be fined the maximum $1500 per infraction by federal agencies
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by peter303 6y ago
The muon was the first non-standard matter particle and second transient particle discovered in 1937. It lead to much new physics in mid-20th century. And continues to suggest new physics.
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by peter303 6y ago
Hades, my internet usage jumped to 250 GB a month since covid. (My Comcast account allows 1200 GB) I am a FIRE'd former college professor and now have endless access to academic zoominars and professional conferences. I'll be some
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by peter303 6y ago
MicroSoft Research,mGoogle Labs. Unclear if they have developed anything significant.
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Two words: SILICON VALLEY. Plus a lot of incest with Stanford grad students and young Stanford professors.
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by peter303 6y ago
MicrosSoft Research and Google Labs have thrown obscene amounts of money at luminaries. But I am not aware of major discoveries or products made by them. Probably past their prime.
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by peter303 6y ago
The NYTimes has these endless articles where you scroll 20-30 pages before reaching the end. Fortunately they have added "takeaway" articles where they summarize the five most important points of a long story.
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by peter303 6y ago
The NYTimes has wonderful obituaries too. In conventional newspapers junior reporters write these and it is pretty boiler plate. In superior news sources these are works of art by senior journalists.
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by peter303 6y ago
Fortunately The Atlantic is essentially free online if you erase cookies when it says you run out of articles. I am glad that Mrs Steve Lynn Powell Jobs used her billions to support this great magazine.
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by peter303 6y ago
Linear algebra was like 11 and 1/2 grade math. First semester junior year in high school was trig; second srmester was discrete math. (I took these in 9th grade)
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by peter303 6y ago
Verizon is winnowing low profit yahoo software.
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by peter303 6y ago
How who Apple react if some company copied, then implemented their iOS API on their mobile device, so they could run Apples hundreds of thousands apps?
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by peter303 6y ago
Ramses II was one of the greatest Kings in human history, ranking with Alexander, Genghis Khan and Napoleon. He lived to 94 years old ruling at least 67 years. He built a huge number of monuments. He had at least 52 sons with a special tomb
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by peter303 6y ago
A coincidence was that it was on same day as the traditional showing of the Ten Commandments movie on Easter Saturday. Two of the Kings Seti I and Ramses II are depicted in the that movie.
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by peter303 6y ago
India manufacturers it for $6 a month. Gilead looks the other way as long its only used in the 3rd world.
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by peter303 6y ago
15,000 people a year still die in the US with HIV. https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...
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by peter303 6y ago
One of Modernas cofounders, MIT Prof Robert Langer, was profiled on 60 Minutes a few years back as MITs most prolific patent holder. He specialized in nanoparticle delivery systems to any desired internal tissue. One can deliver medicine, n
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by peter303 6y ago
Because some have. Phages for example.
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I had the fortune of being in a Stanford Chinese language class with Doug in 1976 when was writing GEB. He passed around lineprinter drafts of chapters for feedback. I dont know if anyone anticipated the book would be a bestseller and win t
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by peter303 6y ago
I took the MIT AI course 6.034 in 1972 from Patrick Winston. He taught that course periodically until his passing a couple years ago. The 2016? Lectures on MIT opencourseware. I would estimate there was 2/3 overlap between the 1972 an
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by peter303 6y ago
I wonder if an AI could fingerprint the writing style of a ghostwriter and identify them? The current anti-plagiarism tools are mostly algorithmic. Then another AI could deep fake a students style based of their fingerprint. An ever-escalat
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by peter303 6y ago
No one really cares, except the people on that project. NASA already contracted SpaceX Heavy for the Lunar Gateway station.
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by peter303 6y ago
Not Turbox, but Congress. They promise new credits and deductions every election cycle. Every couple decades there are weak attempts to weed out some of these such as for the Reagan and Trump tax reforms.

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