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by privong 5y ago
> What if anything I can come up with that aligns with my hobbies has already been done? That depends on what your goal is. If your aim is to learn the programming language, code up that program/task/tool even if someone else
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Ernest Rutherford’s Ambitions(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty: International Monitoring System(2009-2017.state.gov)
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by privong 5y ago
> The article suggests major crimes typically receive follow up articles, hopefully including whether a suspect was acquitted. Maybe AP (and news outlets in general) should make a further commitment to write a "concluding" stor
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by privong 5y ago
I've had similar struggles in the past. My solution at the time was a bib file quasi-managed by hand using JabRef. I would also periodically do some automatic updating using a script I wrote[0]. The script uses the NASA Astrophysics Da
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The world saw a shark-pocalypse 19M years ago, and we don’t know why(arstechnica.com)
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by privong 5y ago
There's been a few posts over the past week about this. Here are two with a reasonable amount of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324227
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by privong 5y ago
Here's a couple: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ https://www.thelightphone.com/
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FemtoStar: Taking Aim for the Stars(pine64.org)
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by privong 5y ago
> the hard landing of AI and symbolics This is a topic I find myself periodically doing casual research on, and I agree -- I think it would be an interesting topic for a book. A friend's mother-in-law worked for Symbolics (or maybe
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Mozilla VPN(mozilla.org)
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Kids These Days: Why the Youth of Today Seem Lacking(heterodoxacademy.org)
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by privong 6y ago
I am planning a small compute job tracking/notification service. Initially it will be for my own personal use, but may eventually be offered publicly. I plan to write the server in Racket (likely leaning heavily on [0]) and have it int
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Engram(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 6y ago
> JWST, its replacement, has been in a warehouse for thirty years JWST development was started in 1996 (25 years ago), so it can't have been in a warehouse for 30 years. The detailed design phase was ongoing in 2007 and assembly of
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Censusviz – Map Census Data(github.com)
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Consequence Argument(en.wikipedia.org)
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New Images Reveal Magnetic Structures Near Supermassive Black Hole(public.nrao.edu)
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by privong 6y ago
This post (currently on front page) is a direct link to the bell labs announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539
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by privong 6y ago
> I wonder if this is something that could be incorporated into smartphone cameras quite easily. I imagine it'd be straightforward to put a circular polarizer in front of a smartphone camera lens. But people might not like the 1-1.5
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by privong 6y ago
I first heard about Claude Glass while reading "Landmarks"[0] by Robert Macfarlane. While Claude Glass was only briefly mentioned, "Landmarks" itself is one of those wonderfully deep books that invites slow reading. The
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by privong 6y ago
> I think there should be a subscription fee for domains in certain TLDs (especially .com) I have a few .com's and I pay yearly subscriptions on them. And some domains in other TLDs have "premium" subscription prices which
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Quantum firmware and the quantum computing stack(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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How Corporate America created the chocolate chip cookie(economist.com)
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How a changing virus is reshaping scientists’ views on Covid-19(reuters.com)
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Letterlocking(letterlocking.org)
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by privong 6y ago
Neat map. The page's link to the journal article is broken. The abstract can be viewed on NASA's ADS[0] or directly via the DOI link[1] (which connects to the current home of the Astrophysical Journal). [0] https://ui.a
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America Has a GPS Problem(nytimes.com)
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by privong 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "resolve"; are you referring to resolving the pulsar's pulse in time? I was speaking more about the flux detection limit of such a dish (implicitly assuming the receiver could make sufficien
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by privong 6y ago
> Accurate positioning is needed Accurate timing is also needed to shift and combine the signals from the various dishes. > often be achieved to within a couple of meters using google maps and a sat image of your back yard. Position a

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