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by rflrob 4y ago
Yes, to two 737s, and the cause was a software bug. https://mentourpilot.com/how-alaska-airlines-reacted-to-two-... And minor nit: the airline is Alaska Airlines (no final n).
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by rflrob 4y ago
Seeing other comments fault the Southwest pilot for not starting faster, but it’s not obvious to me that there was any significant delay—a few seconds at most between lining up and starting the roll down the runway. The diagram isn’t to sca
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by rflrob 4y ago
Assuming the sibling to your comment linking to Terrence Tao is the correct one, the resolution is to harshly penalize being confidently wrong. The points are proportional to log(2p) (where p is your subjective probability of being correct,
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by rflrob 4y ago
One of the questions my friends and I have made mostly standard for tangible things is “can you buy it at Target”. Not all tangible things can be bought, and not all things that can ge bought are for sale at Target, but it’s a broad enough
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by rflrob 4y ago
The conclusion that “prices rose” is the correct one. What you should not conclude, even though the inflation has been at 20% all year is that “prices are (still) rising”.
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by rflrob 4y ago
I’m contributing to my niece’s 529—worst case scenario being she doesn’t need as much as her family has saved, and any excess can be transferred to another family member or taken out for a relatively modest penalty. And, I assume if there’s
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by rflrob 4y ago
The routes they mentioned in the press release (NYC-LHR, LAX-Hawaii) are almost entirely over water.
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by rflrob 4y ago
From TFA: > The hardest 1% of the technical problem, automating the surface streets and interchanges, would end up being worth only about $600/truck/yr. Level 4 truck autonomy has less value than a daily coffee. Note that savin
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by rflrob 4y ago
My naive assumption is that there’s a combination of two factors going on: 1) the blast force will be proportional to the area through which it’s transmitted, and a narrow hose will have a lot less area than the lid of a can, and 2) if the
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by rflrob 4y ago
As a student who went through gifted programs in public elementary and in private middle and high school, but otherwise not plugged into the literature on it, what does the evidence look like that gifted/magnet programs actually provid
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by rflrob 4y ago
It’s one thing to advocate not using Gmail for your own mail, and another entirely to advocate not sending any mail to gmail accounts from your own mail server, which is what TFA is really covering.
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by rflrob 4y ago
In the spirit of TFA, if your hypothesis were true, what evidence could we find that would be consistent with it? What evidence would disprove it?
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by rflrob 5y ago
"Whether the roots were uplifted and the city had been informed" and "was Mr. Peña irresponsibly impaired" are arguments about the merits of the case. The point of the article is that Bird agreed to indemnify the city
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by rflrob 5y ago
> This is not just an academic exercise. This type of technological progress has the potential to transform personal genomics—where individual genomes can be used to inform health decisions. I don’t think genetic interpretation is yet or
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by rflrob 5y ago
I’m having trouble getting the patent to load on my phone, but my interpretation of the “codon optimized” patented sequence is that although the sequence codes for a naturally occurring protein sequence, the RNA triplets that are actually u
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by rflrob 5y ago
The iBooks definitely had them. Back on dialup, you could hook up your airport base station to the modem and initiate a connection as needed, but it was just as easy to plug the phone jack straight into your laptop.
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by rflrob 5y ago
Is this the study? “The mood effects but not the physiological effects of intravenous caffeine were similar to those previously observed with cocaine in studies using similar methods and subjects.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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by rflrob 5y ago
While I’m of the opinion that trans-generational epigenetic inheritance is not typically important in human biology, the most convincing argument I’ve heard is that the egg cells that will become a grandchild are present and post-meiotic in
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by rflrob 5y ago
I believe that the issue is that the harms are broad but relatively small for each person, while the benefits are quite concentrated for those who do profit. Thus, there aren't going to be many people where loosening copyright terms i
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by rflrob 5y ago
There's a lot of sibling comments going on about whether the value they're looking at is the right one. What the Times is showing as their headline number is Positive Predictive Value (True positive/(TP+FP)), which depends on
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by rflrob 5y ago
The larger issue as I see it is that the medical system around these screenings are not well versed in the statistics and able to communicate that to patients. "Eight [patients] said they never received any information about the possib
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by rflrob 5y ago
From your PDF: > Administrators should examine programs and policies and how white supremacy impacts student outcomes (e.g., tracking, course selection, intervention rosters). > White supremacy culture shows up in math classr
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by rflrob 5y ago
I am skeptical-but-open on the behavior-alteration hypothesis, but I do think it’s worth dropping in this paragraph from the Discussion. Getting around it will take some really clever experimental design. > Alternate explanations for the
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by rflrob 5y ago
> We know parachutes work despite never having proven it in an rct trial. In fact, the one study examining parachute use showed no effect! ;-) https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
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by rflrob 5y ago
My favorite story of algorithmic pricing gone mad was discovered by a postdoc in my grad school lab, leading to an out of print book being listed on Amazon for over $23 million: https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
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by rflrob 5y ago
Experiment is surely not the only way to acquire knowledge, but it’s one of the easiest ways to reduce the frequency of tricking yourself into reinforcing what you wanted to believe to begin with. As you say, the system of knowledge product
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by rflrob 5y ago
Paragraph 4: “Slowly, slowly, slowly, the terminology of ‘junk DNA’ [has] started to die,” Rest of the article: continues to use the term "Junk DNA".
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by rflrob 5y ago
For the non molecular biologists out there, the 3-base codon AGC gets converted to the amino acid Serine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_and_RNA_codon_tables
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by rflrob 5y ago
I think we agree? The Chinese government wasn't open about SARS, and despite their apology in 2003 (by which point SARS was on the path to containment), I don't have reason to believe they've become more open about such thin
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by rflrob 5y ago
> I find the degree to which the Chinese government has stomped all over foreign-led investigations into the origin of SARS-Cov-2 to be highly, highly suspicious. I don't find it suspicious at all, precisely because I don't t

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