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by rsfern 5y ago
It sounds like the induction element cradles the wok. I don’t know about the thermal gradient thing (seems plausible) but in principle you could make a gradient in the field strength right? I would have thought that a bigger drawback would
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by rsfern 5y ago
This is Nature… But seriously, what science to fund is political, and I hardly think this topic is out of scope for an editorial in a venue where science policy matters so much to the audience
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by rsfern 5y ago
DDG for me is a mixed bag on that query, some links on how it’s been debunked but more than half promoting the report… It I mean it would be nice if it surfaced whatever actual report you’re talking about, but maybe it’s just not the best q
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by rsfern 5y ago
This is super cool, but I think it’s pretty far from the kind of catalysis that enzymes do, it’s an ultra cold reaction of some like diatomic Na-Li compound. (Molecule?)
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by rsfern 5y ago
Atmospheric CO2 level is a couple hundred ppm, which is way more concentrated than many homeopathic remedies at like 1e-60. I think you are basically making emotional arguments instead of evidence based arguments, at least on the climate sc
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by rsfern 5y ago
Well “leaks through metal” sort of misconstrues things, “dissolves in metal” or “diffuses in metal” would be a better phrasing. I think a more relevant issue is hydrogen embrittlement, it is definitely a problem for many alloys. I don’t thi
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by rsfern 5y ago
I think the existing HN guidelines / norms should be sufficient for maintaining civil and constructive discussion. A lot of times public policy is directly relevant to technical topics, and who’s going to be the arbiter between legitim
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by rsfern 5y ago
One nice upside to having tex source is that you can set the page size to match e.g., a phone screen. Reading standard pdf textbooks and papers on a phone isn’t very fun. I used to do this for reading arxiv preprints, but the script I wrote
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by rsfern 5y ago
> Diplomacy That is more defensible than just standing by while Ukraine asks for military aid, IMO. I’m not sure if you have specific diplomatic strategies in mind. I sort of assume that the west is going straight to ratcheting up sancti
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by rsfern 5y ago
> That is not the only alternative. Fair, I am asking what the alternatives are to total capitulation. “Overlord” is maybe a bit flip, but the Russians aren’t exactly coming to share their birthday cake or something
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by rsfern 5y ago
If you mean Russian oil exports, I thought the bulk of those went to Europe and China. It looks like 8 or 9% of US oil imports have been coming from Russia. About half our imports are from Canada. I’m not sure what percentage of US oil usag
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by rsfern 5y ago
So Ukraine should just welcome their new Russian overlords? Or is there an alternative to fighting that you’re proposing?
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by rsfern 5y ago
Can you clarify? Like halfway down the politico interview, the interviewer prompts > There are people who are saying we’re on the brink of a World War III. And Hill responds “we’re already in it” Maybe you disagree, but I was surprised b
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by rsfern 5y ago
According to Fiona Hill, we’re already in it. She doesn’t really indicate when we crossed the rubicon, but I guess there doesn’t always have to be a Franz Ferdinand moment? https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/20
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by rsfern 5y ago
I like to ask my four year old for an opener word every morning. He usually just says “water!”, but the ensuing discussion often leads to a fun opener
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by rsfern 5y ago
There’s a character limit that can make it difficult to summarize the whole title. Maybe the norm should be to post a top level comment with full title and brief summary or something? Edit: current top comment is from OP posting exactly thi
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by rsfern 5y ago
I thought it would mostly be training grad students, but they did a great job weaving the program into their undergrad courses and like professional outreach. That section of the proposal is super skimmable, each paragraph has a pithy bold
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by rsfern 5y ago
A lot of the work involves training PhD students to do the research, it’s a big component particularly for NSF funding. So it’s not just the raw research output And yeah, most professors try to have multiple programs going. This one would h
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by rsfern 5y ago
How would you define opportunity vs outcome in this case? I feel like “admission to an honors program” could be viewed as either, depending on what you’re measuring. For a university with demographic goals, honors program demographic profil
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The cancer vaccine roller coaster (2009)(nature.com)
40 points by rsfern 5y ago|28 comments
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by rsfern 5y ago
Looks like a great accessible review of computational chemistry (and applied ML in that space) for anyone interested in this field coming from a CS or math background
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Combining machine learning and computational chemistry (2021)(pubs.acs.org)
3 points by rsfern 5y ago|1 comments
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by rsfern 5y ago
Online courses? You can find language learning correspondents too, like pen pals but with video chat. Plus most US universities have resources for students whose first language is not English, probably most countries have something similar
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by rsfern 5y ago
I was thinking about it just now, and I think the hard mode could be similar to hard mode on wordle, where you don’t drop any green letters once you get them. That would strike a balance between being a bit challenging but not being impossi
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by rsfern 5y ago
It feels easier to me too, but still fun. It seems like there aren’t as many constraints as in wordle, so you can solve each line independently When I first opened the link I thought we would have to guess the exact words, in reverse order.
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Open access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south(nature.com)
7 points by rsfern 5y ago|1 comments
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by rsfern 5y ago
I skipped out on AP English Lit and composition because i didn’t want to deal with all the writing, and I regret that. The English class I ended up in was such a drag, not intellectually stimulating at all. Also, turns out that clear commun
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by rsfern 5y ago
I can see where people are coming from with that CDC wording change, but I don’t really think “protection” vs “immunity” is inconsistent with the idea of vaccines sometimes just reducing the effects of an infection. On the delta specific va
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by rsfern 5y ago
A vaccine doesn’t necessarily need to prevent infection to be called a vaccine, prophylactic vaccines are a thing. Here is wiki in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130516001246/https://en.m.wiki... Th
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by rsfern 5y ago
Meh. There’s plenty of deep learning music generation stuff out there, this is still a really cool approach I think it would be cool to combine the two. Instead of generating raw midi, your GAN or reinforcement learning agent or whatever co

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