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by tgb 5y ago
Even Google misspells it: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ I checked the other day and it's still true.
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by tgb 5y ago
It's often repeated but describing spheres as "spikey" isn't right at all. The argument made is that they seem spikey in rectangular coordinates. But that's actually a statement about cubes, which are spikey. That
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by tgb 5y ago
There are "underwater gliders" that propel themselves by ascending/descending via changing their buoyancy and using fins to direct this forwards. They have low speed but are much more efficient than most subs. Would be intere
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by tgb 5y ago
Doppler velocity log is likely what they'd want.
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by tgb 5y ago
Matplotlib is my go-to despite being mediocre. I recently found proplot library built on it which seems to solve a lot of the warts (particularly around figure layout with subplots and legends). I haven't had a chance to use it yet - d
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by tgb 5y ago
I find your comment confusing. What exactly is the "good example" you're referring to? The person you are replying to appears to have done exactly what you are saying to do, by my reading, so I'm wondering what you'
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by tgb 5y ago
I was going to say impossible, reasoning from how I understand your eye's lens to focus. But that doesn't rule out the possibility of it working if out-of-focus . If you look at a small point light source and let your eyes go out
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by tgb 5y ago
Where is the oat milk getting it's extra calories? Using the usual 9kcals per gram fat and 4kcals per gram protein and gram carbohydrates, I get the expected 120ish amount for cow milk but only 71kcal for oat milk (listed at 100kcals).
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by tgb 5y ago
Why do you say that? I mean, I just pointed out it burns me 15000 calories a month and frankly I haven't built any muscle from running.
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by tgb 5y ago
> Exercising is almost irrelevant I get where this is coming from, but I really feel like everyone has over-corrected on this and ended up being wrong again in the opposite direction. Exercise burns a significant number of calories. An h
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by tgb 5y ago
Audio is the most important and hardest component of learning a language so apps have a huge advantage over textbooks any day. I really don't think recommending textbooks is at all relevant these days. Graded readers are better for sim
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by tgb 5y ago
If your original claim were true, then you'd also be saying that there is twice as much area at 2m above sea level as there is 1m above sea level, and infinitely more than at sea level. If you truly believe this, then I will be willing
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by tgb 5y ago
They're at 100x higher altitude relative to the sea level but nearly the same altitude relative to the Earth's center which is what matters here.
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by tgb 5y ago
On Android I installed an app that lets me scale the global volume for this. It's called "Precise Volume" and seems to work well. I wish I could tweak the "gamma" of the volume slider though: I want to make quiet si
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by tgb 5y ago
I'm a SQL newbie so maybe I lack context for this decision, but why did you decide to keep the "SELECT" keyword? Going through your tutorial, SELECT seems redundant and could just be dropped without any loss of information. I
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by tgb 5y ago
Like this one, where they put cameras and GPS on cats? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22821639 Or this one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063
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by tgb 5y ago
Your citations don't back up your claim that "the main reason smoking causes cancer" is polonium 210. They just note that polonium 210 is one possible reason for smoking causing cancer. From your [1]: > Do these doses le
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by tgb 5y ago
How do you make something idempotent if one of the effects is sending an email?
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by tgb 5y ago
You mean the degeneracy in the last base of codons that I mention? I wouldn't even call that an error correcting: would you count a file type that just skipped every third byte 'error correction'? I wouldn't. This isn&#x
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by tgb 5y ago
What error correction does RNA have? Are you just referring to the third base in the codons? DNA has some but I don't know of any for RNA, and it hardly seems worth it for most organisms to have RNA error-correction: it's better t
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by tgb 5y ago
I was saying that "90% water" stat is super misleading because it makes it sound like <10% is anything of value, but that's off by a factor of 3. Baking absolutely makes a bigger than 10% water loss by mass in broccoli, an
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by tgb 5y ago
> most green vegetables like broccoli are 90% water. That's super misleading. The nutrition facts for broccoli here [1] gives 89% water but actually over 1/3rd of broccoli by mass is carbs, fats, proteins or fibers. And compari
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by tgb 5y ago
Well written article. Does this get used at all bioinformatics, for maybe de novo sequence construction from short reads or something? Seems like it would have many applications in that field. Edit: I see now that user inciampati already ad
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by tgb 5y ago
If SRA is like the closely related GEO database, then you can upload data without it being public yet. You frequently do so prior to publication (but give the reviewers special access) and then make it public later. So it may never have bee
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by tgb 5y ago
Sure, but you don't need to mitigate timing attacks on untrusted code if that code already has root access.
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by tgb 5y ago
> NaNs (Not a Number, usually referring to positive/negative Infinite values in floats and integers) Huh? This sounds totally incorrect to me.
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by tgb 5y ago
I iterate over rows in pandas fairly often for plotting purposes. Anytime I want to draw something more complicated than a single point for each row, I find it's simple and straight-forward to just iterrows() and call the appropriate m
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by tgb 5y ago
The FDA's article gives a meaninglessly useless. The multiplicative one is clear. What is the plausible case where someone gets confused by this in a way that's harmful? Would anyone ever over -estimate the time they can spend in
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by tgb 5y ago
This model doesn't take into account time of day, but many do. But those mostly seem to do so incorrectly, as far as I can tell. They tend to use the measure of "UVA/B incident on a horizontal square meter". However huma
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by tgb 5y ago
I don't see anything in that article that actually contradicts the definition of SPF. It's basically saying: > It's a common misconception that speed determines how fast you get to your destination, but actually distance a

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