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by sampo 5y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+power+warm+summer https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00849-y https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156
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by sampo 5y ago
Here's an opposite point of view: "Sometimes the Best Ideas Come from Outside Your Industry" https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-o...
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by sampo 5y ago
> more context? Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177216
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Sometimes the Best Ideas Come from Outside Your Industry (2014)(hbr.org)
2 points by sampo 5y ago|0 comments
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by sampo 5y ago
Nuclear plants use water from a local river, or sea, for cooling. Or some plants use air and have cooling towers. Nuclear plants are also tightly regulated by law. So there is a limit on how warm cooling water the plant is allowed, as per e
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by sampo 5y ago
Yes. Assume 1 virion has a 0.001 chance to start an infection. You could infect 1 person with 692 virions, resulting in a 50% change of them getting ill (1-0.999^692). Or you could infect 692 people each with 1 virion, with 50% chance of at
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by sampo 5y ago
There is an "independent action hypothesis" in virology. It states that each virus particle (virion) has an independent probability of starting the infection in the body. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi&#x2F
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by sampo 5y ago
Operation Warp Speed gave equally huge sums of money for each of: mRNA vaccines, adenovirus vector vaccines, and the more traditional protein adjuvant vaccines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed#Compani
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by sampo 5y ago
> To be fair the Moderna vaccine has been shown to have the highest efficacy Pfizer-BioNTech: 30µg doses, 21 days apart. Moderna: 100µg doses, 28 days apart. It seems probable that Moderna has higher efficacy because the dose is larger,
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by sampo 5y ago
John Carmack, of computer games and graphics programming fame, had pretty positive comments on the Imperial College CovidSim model code: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1254872369556074496
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by sampo 5y ago
> The current climate we're in means that consensus science from 50+ years of research and medical practice around the world is being questioned. (A) In some aspects, 50+ years of accepted medical science was wrong. "Droplet do
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by sampo 5y ago
Also, certain supernatural abilities would have been so useful in stone age societies that they would have given an evolutionary advantage to the individuals possessing them, and hence we all should have those abilities by now, as evolution
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by sampo 5y ago
> Sweden is moving to greener energy and is currently exporting electricity to Germany and Poland. How come it works here but not down there? Sweden has 3.5x more hydro than wind energy (in TWh produced). Germany has 7x less hydro than w
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by sampo 5y ago
We don't need to assume, there is "2021-05-10" in the bottom of the article.
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> the authors rarely see anything of this money The authors never see anything of that money. Scientific journals do not pay for the authors of the published research papers.
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by sampo 5y ago
(A) Publish your code as is, so the code is the actual code used in the paper. > But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing (B) Don't spend time cleaning code for publishing
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by sampo 5y ago
> That said, even highly adversarial climate models greated almost half a century ago have tremendous predictive power. Yes. About the warming effect of doubling the atmospheric CO2 (Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity): Manabe and Wetherald
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by sampo 5y ago
Finland: suicides 2019 746 2020 717 https://findikaattori.fi/fi/10 https://findikaattori.fi/fi/table/10
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by sampo 5y ago
Oh right, I misinterpreted the xkcd plot. It's only the single (x)-marked dot in the top right of the graph, that is the Exxon prediction. Not the graph itself.
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by sampo 5y ago
> https://xkcd.com/2500 I am unable to find any 1982 Exxon prediction that would meander like the line in that graph. The only plot I was able to find is this [1] from this 1982 Exxon report [2], which is just a slightly
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by sampo 5y ago
> Makes me wonder how much of the rapidly established covid testing infrastructure around the world delivers actual results. There was a scammy company is Sweden that wrote everyone negative covid results, without actually bothering to a
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by sampo 5y ago
> """Modern evidence-based methods in behavioural science adopt the ground principle that people’s behavior mainly depend on context.""" Adopting ground principles doesn't sound very evidence-based to b
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by sampo 5y ago
Do you need/want the bars of the 3d bar chart to cast shadows? You can turn the shadows off, too.
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by sampo 5y ago
It takes some time to learn how floating point and numerical calculations work. Not too long, but more than one evening. If you take a numerical analysis course in a university, the first 2 or 3 lectures might be about floating point, error
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by sampo 5y ago
> I can't think of a single reason why the Israeli government would oppose an extradition request if they were presented with evidence of cyber-whatever. If an American company would get caught doing the similar, would US allow extr
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by sampo 5y ago
Here is another study, which was published: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/08/05/Mas...
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UN crowns nuclear as lowest carbon electricity source(cityam.com)
40 points by sampo 5y ago|2 comments
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> Should you trust someone's advice, when you can't pinpoint their motivation? As a Ph.D. student, I run into this problem around three to five times a week, when interacting with colleagues or my advisor. Maybe this should b
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by sampo 5y ago
The first Western people protecting themselves with face masks, those were "do your own research" people. Before April 2020, the Western mainstream claimed/lied that masks don't work.
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by sampo 5y ago
Yes. "COVID lesson: trust the public with hard truths" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02758-2

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