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by superposeur 2y ago
> Sorry to break it to the hard-sciencers Believe me, you aren't "breaking" anything to anyone. If you could solve the secret of happiness (your example), no amount of money would be too small. The issue isn't whether
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by superposeur 2y ago
I mean, a psych experiment will never have an N comparable to a particle physics experiment or be able to reach the 5-sigma threshold for discovery that now prevails in physics. On the other hand, the object of study for psych is intrinsica
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by superposeur 2y ago
> it's much easier to conduct controlled experiments. Very true. But this means more statistics and controls are necessary to get solid result from a social science experiment then a particle physics experiment, no? Clearly, this
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by superposeur 2y ago
Yes, the devil always seems to be in the details in psychology experiments. Were the experimenters giving subtle cues to the child, and was this simply a test at how deftly the child picked up these cues? What was the exact wording of the
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by superposeur 2y ago
Thank god, as I love marshmallows and instant gratification.
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The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning(srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by superposeur 2y ago
FWIW, here is CrowdStrike’s own comparison of features: https://www.crowdstrike.com/compare/crowdstrike-vs-microsoft...
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by superposeur 2y ago
I’m surprised no one has yet noted that Microsoft itself is a chief CrowdStrike competitor.
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by superposeur 2y ago
Whitmer far and away best. But she’s had every opportunity to throw her hat in the ring and unfortunately the window for doing so is all but closed by now. She seems genuinely not to want it / lacks the courage to proactively make it h
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by superposeur 2y ago
Does anyone use obsidian for editing and managing emails? I have some email templates I need to adapt and send over and over (including file attachments and embedded links). I’d love a way to store and manage them from within obsidian witho
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by superposeur 2y ago
No. Due to the game theory of the (non-parliamentary, winner-take-all) system, 2 is an equilibrium for number of parties. As in, smaller third parties are quickly “absorbed” into one of the two large parties to have any shot at winning. As
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Earthlike Planet K2-18B(twitter.com)
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by superposeur 2y ago
To support your point, I think the role of memory in creative work is highly underrated. I’ve seen up close a few people who could fairly be described as “most creative researchers in the world” (in my field at least) according to metrics s
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by superposeur 2y ago
I would think this point would be obvious, but apparently not given the many frustrating discussions I’ve had with smart people on the topic. (Maybe there is a subtlety I’m not appreciating?) It’s a relief to see the good solid sense in all
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by superposeur 2y ago
The “differentiation” in the title turns out to be derivative of a quarternion-valued function with respect to a scalar parameter. But, I wonder if you math folks know of a definition of derivative of a quarternionic function with respect t
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by superposeur 2y ago
This question isn’t actually anything to do with quantum mechanics. One can already ask, for GR, can a gravity wave generated by a wiggling object that has already passed the event horizon propagate back out through the event horizon? The a
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by superposeur 2y ago
These experiments confirm the classical theory of gravity, which is Einstein’s general relativity, just as Maxwell’s equations are the classical theory of the electromagnetic field. Just as Maxwell’s equations are perfectly adequate for w
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by superposeur 2y ago
I love to imagine this kind of thing dug up by an alien civilization. That it displays the moons of Jupiter will be a fun puzzle and a source of wonder. “Obviously”, they will say, “these people must have worshipped Jupiter as a god and use
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by superposeur 2y ago
Reading this story inspired me to work through Joe Polchinski’s classic paper on the “Everett phone” [1]. The paper partially answers a question I’ve long had about Quantum Mechanics, what is so special about linearity? In a nutshell, the p
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by superposeur 2y ago
Interesting — thanks
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by superposeur 2y ago
Interesting. With all the mega bucks and efforts to produce smaller wavelength photon beams, I wonder if a comparable investment would increase throughput? Or maybe there is an insurmountable technical hurdle.
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by superposeur 2y ago
Extremely small wavelengths can be achieved using beams of electrons in place of beams of photons, as in Scanning Tunneling Microscopes and electron diffraction. Do you know if there is any thought of developing “electron beam lithography”,
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by superposeur 2y ago
As other commenters have said, whether or not an electron’s magnetic moment is “to do with currents” is a little open to interpretation. I’ll add that the Dirac equation (governing electron field) correctly predicts magnetic moment given
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by superposeur 2y ago
Labels are important and I think progress on Everett QM (or, maybe “unitary QM”?) has been held back by the label “Many Worlds Interpretation”. “Worlds” is inaccurate since there is still only one world (the ordinary, uncontroversial, tens
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by superposeur 2y ago
Agreed that “science accepts their ideas” is a mischaracterization (indeed Everett annd Bohm are probably mutually exclusive so couldn’t both be “accepted”). Better to say that the community now takes both seriously as contenders for a com
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by superposeur 2y ago
I started reading the different sections of the paper and —- wait, no, this is still the Abstract!
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by superposeur 2y ago
Cool use of maser for receive. Not having thought this through before, I see now that while a transmit maser may have efficiency advantages, it may not improve directionality relative to a standard parabolic radio transmitter. All methods o
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by superposeur 2y ago
Ok what about using a maser instead of a laser?
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by superposeur 2y ago
Interesting about the JPL program and I’m amazed this prototype was only launched last year! Apparently the answer to comms laser use is “not yet but soon”.
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by superposeur 2y ago
The overwhelming loss in this calculation is from the antenna’s radiated energy spreading out over a larger and larger area (despite the directional “gain” factor). I’m wondering: would a probe launched today instead employ a laser to commu

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