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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/08/defining-s... would be better link than (currently) posted https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/08/defining-s...
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https://archive.is/UvAEi
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Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal(news.cornell.edu)
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367 > > https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-... What is the point of defining a Python class with a single `run` m
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> My sense is that we might have reached the limits of what we can do in high-energy or fundamental physics without accessing energy levels or other extreme states that we currently can't access How can we know, as past decades theo
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I think I found the preprint of the article. Of course, the final published article has gone through some further editing. Anyway: > To ensure safety during daily or repeated use, PCANS was meticulously designed as a “drug-free” formulat
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Musk doesn't seem to be happy about the situation: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1839121268521492975
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Alternative link https://archive.is/HZfdi
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Biggest banks pledge support for nuclear power(ft.com)
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import datetime import pandas as pd hundred_or_less_even_seconds = ( pd.Series(range(1, 1000)) .loc[lambda x: x <= 100] .loc[lambda x: x % 2 == 0] .map(lambda x: datetime.timedelta(seconds=
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And ETH = Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule.
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From 1954 to 1975, theoretical physics created the standard model of particle physics. Experimental verification of the theory continued through 1980s and 1990s, and finally the Higgs boson in 2011. But if we follow the dictionary definitio
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20 to 30 years ago, activists firebombed university research labs (e.g. Michigan State University, University of Washington, Michigan Technological University [1]) because they believed genetically engineered plants are dangerous. Today, we
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> In the news I'm reading about massive amount of cases of persistent cough which "takes weeks to resolve". There is one more covid wave going on, so that could be a reason for many people coughing.
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> the fact that Rosalind Franklin didn’t get the Nobel due to sexism The primary reason why Rosalind Franklin didn't get a Nobel is that she died in 1958. It's maybe not easy to speculate what would have happened in the alterna
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> 1) General relativity is just a model. Yes, but it is the currently accepted model. Whereas, for the other 3 fundamental interactions, the currently accepted model is in the form of a quantum field theory. For these 3 interactions, the
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> I love the old fact that you should have twice the amount of swap as your RAM size. With a 32GB memory, 256GB ssd-disk laptop, it would be really weird to set up 64GB of the disk for swap.
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> And at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I watched in alarm as public trust in science disintegrated. It is not that common that science airs their dirty laundry out in the public. With covid, the debates and disagreements were very
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> Also to put things into perspective, Germany deployed as much solar in the last 3 years[1] as it had in total combined nuclear capacity ever This is clearly not true. Perhaps you a confusing the nominal capacity of solar plants to real
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> And the average pickup is probably shrinking right now, not growing - for example, there are fewer and fewer models with 8" beds, and 5.5" is the new standard (instead of 6"). For non-Americans: While literally writing t
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Here is one, where a college professor didn't even use an AI detector, but simply copied some text from a student's essay into ChatGPT and asked "Did you write this?" and ChatGPT answered "I generated that passage&q
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> What does that mean that "the sun is brighter"? Sun has been getting about 8% brighter (8% more energy output) every 1 billion years.
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"The human body also produces 5–15 g xylitol per day during normal carbohydrate metabolism in the liver" Page 347 in: http://www.chemistry-chemists.com/chemister/Pishevye/sweeten...
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> Have you ever seen a book that doesn't? The brown Rudin.
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Somewhat related: http://www.rosenfels.org/Feynman After the war, Feynman got a "D" from an army psychological evaluation because he, among other things, told the psychiatrist that he occasionally talks to his lat
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> Researchers like Jaime Sevilla and Jess Riedel support this timeline, publishing a report in late 2020 that claimed a 90% confidence of RSA-2048 being factored before 2060. I am skeptical. 36 years is a long time, but in the past 10 ye
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This channel has lots of Youtube shorts about basic ideas in Black Metal guitar: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c16tL6rdh7g
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> Probabilistic Graphical Models Specialization from coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/specializations/probabilistic-graph... ) Are Probabilistic Graphical Models still being used? They don't get much visibilit
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> Like UFO theories, such and such monster, bigfoot, etc., they are for entertainment. Many astronomers and physicists have engaged in speculations about extraterrestrial life. They also use some radio telescope time for SETI (search for
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Somehow traffic and parking is a political topic, where the left supports free market and deregulation, and the conservative right supports central planning, regulation and subsidies.

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