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PeerReview4All: Fair and accurate reviewer assignment in peer review(arxiv.org)
47 points by privong 3y ago|9 comments
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International Tree-Ring Data Bank(ncei.noaa.gov)
1 points by privong 3y ago|0 comments
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Learn Physics with Functional Programming(nostarch.com)
291 points by privong 3y ago|100 comments
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The Satellite and Telecommunications Streamlining Act: A Postmortem Analysis(aas.org)
1 points by privong 3y ago|0 comments
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by privong 3y ago
If they're ~identical construction and being mirrored so that they have the same write/read pattern history, it could trigger the same failure mode simultaneously.
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by privong 3y ago
> Possibly a dumb question: can the tension between the two rates simply be resolved because one method measures an old historical rate and one method measures the current rate This is already generally being accounted for (assuming we h
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by privong 3y ago
This history is also discussed in an essay by Garrett[0]. And there's been a few previous HN posts about it[1]. (I'm not suggesting the parent post is a dupe, but people might be interested in the essay and related contents). [0]
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Oppenheimer: The View from Ground Zero(bfi.org.uk)
2 points by privong 3y ago|0 comments
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We Ought to Handle It Ourselves(mortiseandtenonmag.com)
2 points by privong 3y ago|0 comments
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Racket v8.9(blog.racket-lang.org)
3 points by privong 3y ago|0 comments
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by privong 3y ago
> I'm 21 now but I wish I had known about this when I was younger and getting into programming, I would have been all over this. Unfortunately Heathkit didn't really make kits from 1992 until recently (I think the past year or
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Update on the 2600 Digital Publishing Crisis(2600.com)
3 points by privong 3y ago|3 comments
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by privong 3y ago
I think they mean that they turned off the motors to let the drone drop into the net.
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Coordinated Starlink User Terminal Testing Near the VLA [pdf](library.nrao.edu)
1 points by privong 3y ago|0 comments
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by privong 3y ago
> Nobody is going to pick up the hobbyist VMS license and then decide to adopt VMS at work. I bet it doesn't lead to a single extra commercial sale. It's nice that they're offering it despite that. While I think you'r
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Ratan-600(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by privong 4y ago|0 comments
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Ridge A(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by privong 4y ago|0 comments
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by privong 4y ago
> Are there job descriptions anywhere? Not seeing them. No, and their reasoning is given in the link FAQ.
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Use of Chatbots in Writing Scientific Manuscripts, Commentary from AAS Journals(baas.aas.org)
3 points by privong 4y ago|1 comments
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by privong 4y ago
There are screenshots for IRIX 6.5 too: http://toastytech.com/guis/irix.html
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by privong 4y ago
This was a nice, deeper dive into this topic. I'd recently come across the idea the the pack structure with an "alpha" wolf wasn't scientifically accurate while reading "Inside of a Dog"[0]. The book obviously
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Clever Hans(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by privong 4y ago|0 comments
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by privong 4y ago
> Don't plant things too close to each other or to fences. This issue was drilled into my head with the tracts of new homes in Boise; that 5-10 years later had plant beds were overgrown and too crowded. > When you put a pile of s
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by privong 4y ago
That makes sense. I guess it's all about time spent exposed to it. I do okay with geologic features (from being a backpacker and climber) except, oddly, types of rocks. But I have never been great at tree/plant identification. We
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by privong 4y ago
A wonderful book about such things (and other "place words") is "Landmarks" by Robert Macfarlane. There does seem to be a richness that we're losing, in terms of our ability to describe nature. I often find myself s
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by privong 4y ago
Just to add that that only works for specific types of stars that have regular pulsations. It can be used to infer distances to other types of stars if you have good cause to think that the pulsating star is in the same place as the other s
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Meltwater Pulse 1A(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by privong 4y ago|1 comments
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by privong 4y ago
This is a duplicated discussion of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34813141
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by privong 4y ago
> As a pragmatist (?), I suspect answering from 3) on down is near impossible* unless you actually release it into the world. People are clever in a way I don't think any of us can anticipate and put to use things in novel ways tha
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NSF Statement on NSF and SpaceX Astronomy Coordination Agreement(beta.nsf.gov)
1 points by privong 4y ago|0 comments

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