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by sleavey 10y ago
Yes, exactly that. We don't have the luxury of many events, so to increase our confidence we generate more background. One of the problems is what to do with data that contains more than one event. In the second detection paper, one of
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by sleavey 10y ago
We use a technique called time sliding to generate more background data to understand our detector noise better, and thus set better upper limits on the false alarm rate. So even with a 3 month observation time we can claim 5+ sigma.
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by sleavey 10y ago
Yes, energy loss in the tracks (or pipes) affects both charging and discharging, so using rails is definitely better than some alternatives. But the problem is that even if the transport process is lossless, the gravitational potential ener
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by sleavey 10y ago
After I heard this was likely to get passed, I set up a VPN on my server based in France. I now funnel my traffic through this VPN, so now all web connections are end-to-end encrypted and not subject to UK ISP logging. I suggest to everyone
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by sleavey 10y ago
"Collecting metadata..." is all I see, possibly due to Firefox's tracking protection. The source contains a lot more information - apparently this is something to do with Wikileaks. Also some minified Javascript. What am I mi
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by sleavey 10y ago
On my first aid training (UK) we were told that no court has ever passed a conviction based on someone trying to provide help in an emergency. It's only one data point, but it seems morally right to me.
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Crowdfunding an experiment on whether low carb ketogenic diets inhibit cancers(experiment.com)
1 points by sleavey 10y ago|0 comments
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by sleavey 10y ago
Well, Nigel Farage immediately claimed after the vote was finished that he lied about one of the key statements made during the campaign (£350M/week to be spent on NHS instead of EU). Does that qualify as a major fact changing?
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by sleavey 10y ago
The game was posted originally in the Engineering subreddit [1] so I guess it's aimed at controls engineers. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/4jwtzn/i_made_...
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Solve control challenges with JavaScript(janismac.github.io)
1 points by sleavey 10y ago|2 comments
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by sleavey 11y ago
I'm pretty new to the metabolic theory of cancer, but I summarise below what I think the main point of the article is: There is debate between two schools of thought. On one side, Vander Heiden suggests that tumours must be attacked no