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by sradman 6y ago
I followed qserasera's link to the Nature paper. The Methods [1] section says: > I also use Florida Current transport from submarine telephone cables at 27∘N between West Palm Beach and Grand Bahama (Figs. 1b and 2). Using electroma
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by sradman 6y ago
From the conclusions: > I applied Bayesian data analysis to observations from submarine cables and tide gauges to infer the changes in the Florida Current transport at 27°N during 1909–2018. These are important techniques for deriving a
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by sradman 6y ago
The section Direct evidence of reactivity to HCoV epitopes homologous to SARS-CoV-2 epitopes [1]: > we designed a peptide pool encompassing peptides homologous to CD4-R30 epitopes, derived from HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU
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by sradman 6y ago
Original paper Ostrich eggshell bead strontium isotopes reveal persistent macroscale social networking across late Quaternary southern Africa : > Hunter-gatherers like the Ju/’hoãnsi (!Kung) San use exchange networks to dampen subs
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From the Wikipedia article Hybrid Trimaran (Philippine ship) [1]: > Waves gathered from the vessel's outriggers will drive the double action hydraulic pumps which will generate power for the ship. It sounds like the "outrigge
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by sradman 6y ago
Gigabytes per second has been a common metric used to compare column store performance (compressed bitmap indexes), a sweet spot for SIMD. Daniel Lemire is involved with both Roaring Bitmaps [1] and EWAH [2]. It is real-world in terms of ex
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by sradman 6y ago
> Maintenance was conducted on the warehouse door just hours before the blast on Tuesday, he added. This looks like a key piece of evidence. Warehouse door maintenance could have caused the fire seen at the start of the videos of the inc
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The original paper A mechanistic model and therapeutic interventions for COVID-19 involving a RAS-mediated bradykinin storm [1]: > ...our results indicate that the pathology of COVID-19 is likely the result of Bradykinin Storms rather
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by sradman 6y ago
> It seems to me like a time series or sorting problem. The challenge was inserting meta data and then sorting. The core problem, as I see it, is missing asset identifiers. The timestamp of each asset in the Kafka queue acts as the ID. T
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> Liquid hydrogen has about four times the volume for the same amount of energy of kerosene based jet-fuel. In addition, its highly volatile nature precludes storing the fuel in the wings, as with conventional transport aircraft. Therefo
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by sradman 6y ago
> Many systems use a “wakeword” or “keyword spotting” to start the interaction. What if we used keyword spotting to determine the end as well? “Please” might be a good choice. It’s like the Enter key. I hate saying "Alexa, dismiss&q
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by sradman 6y ago
A Conflict of Visions is not a book about Marxism, it is a description of a model to help us understand our ideological preferences. Like all models, it is wrong but sometimes it is useful.
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by sradman 6y ago
There are two mobile platforms: Apple iOS and Google Android. Each mobile platform has changed its preferred language: Objective-C -> Swift and Java -> Kotlin. There are two popular language-specific cross-platform mobile ecosystems:
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I focused on ADT's network of technicians rather than their install base. I guess the two are correlated but it seems that Nest thermostats and smoke detectors have always tried to straddle the line between DIY self-install and profess
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by sradman 6y ago
Google's blog post A partnership with ADT for smarter home security [1] [1] https://blog.google/products/google-nest/partnership-adt-sma...
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> He does take a conservative approach to a lot of topics... Sowell's book A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles [1] is, ironically, a very good starting point in understanding what makes Sowell "c
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by sradman 6y ago
> He talks as if his work revolutionized the world and Jeff Bezos is a god among men. I read the Tweets as an appreciation for Bezos’ vision, specifically acting on a non-consensus prediction at a moment when the core businesses was stru
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The paper describes “event-related potential (ERP)” [1] measured via EEG. “The N170 is a component of the event-related potential (ERP) that reflects the neural processing of faces, familiar objects or words.” [2] They also measured the inv
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by sradman 6y ago
The original paper Lack of awareness despite complex visual processing: Evidence from event-related potentials in a case of selective metamorphopsia [1] is not as Freudian as the article about “consciousness”: > How does the neural act
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by sradman 6y ago
Yes, other than timers, reminders, delivery notifications, home automation, weather, music/podcast playback, Bluetooth speaker, unit conversion, and grocery items (e.g. OurGroceries), voice assistants are useless.
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> our findings reveal that significant cardiac involvement occurs independently of the severity of original presentation and persists beyond the period of acute presentation, with no significant trend toward reduction of imaging or serol
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Or have a chamber nearby on the surface staffed by doctors trained in hyperbaric medicine [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicine
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> is continuing to put forward the preservation of life worth it given the extreme decline in quality of life that we see past the age of 70? The breakthrough here is in a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's. You are making a generaliza
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Stuart Ritchie's book Science Fictions was not illustrated by Zach Weinersmith, only the article was.
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I suspect that the same characteristics that make Bonaire and Curaçao a haven for shore diving simplify the design of the underwater lab: > Fresh air, power and internet will be provided by an umbilical cable to the surface.
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> The plan is to build Proteus off the coast of the Caribbean island of Curaçao, at a depth of 60 feet (~18m). An underwater lab at only 2 atmospheres on an island famous for its shore diving accessible by car? This reminds me of a Freem
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Arxiv, github, and a self-publishing style platform that supports reproducible digital artifacts, i.e., the published paper. IIRC, many flawed papers were the result of data errors saved in a spreadsheet.
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by sradman 6y ago
This comic by Zach Weinersmith summarizes Stuart Ritchie's recent book Science Fiction . To combat the problem of low-quality science papers, one of the panels suggests: > [journals] can demand scientists share their data, and to p
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by sradman 6y ago
For context, Wikipedia article on MOND [1]: > Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a hypothesis that proposes a modification of Newton's laws to account for observed properties of galaxies. It is an alternative to the hypothesis of
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The paper Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years [1]: > Our results suggest that microbial communities widely distributed in organic-poor abyssal sediment consist mainly of aerobes that re

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